Once upon a time, John Harris <joh...@splentity.com> said: > I cannot think of any reason not to use ones distro of choice as their > gateway > and/or VPN. I personally use a system Fedora (well, Fedora + Freed-ora- > freedom) for my router and VPN. OpenWRT is not inherently better than Fedora, > and there are many benefits of using Fedora over OpenWRT.
It's the difference between using a multitool and a purpose-built tool. Sure, your Leatherman or Gerber can strip wires and screw in a switch, but a good pair of wire strippers and assorted size screwdrivers will usually be more convenient (and quicker) to use. OpenWrt is a light-weight system designed for router setups. It has an integrated web UI (for those that want it) that can configure and monitor traffic, and all configuration normally needed is in a small set of config files in one directory and in a common format (makes management much easier for occasional edits). There are things that OpenWrt does easily that Fedora doesn't do at all; for example, the web UI on OpenWrt includes real-time traffic graphs. I don't know of anything that can provide that in Fedora. Also, OpenWrt uses much less resources than any general-purpose OS install, so costs less. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
