Why is "IPfire" not recommended?

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Hi

Why is “IPfire” not recommended here?

Is there any specific reason?

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Ive heard of it and it is also open source IIRC, but I guess it is a lesser known or at least lesser used Linux based firewall distro. Most of the content in youtube are usually pfSense and OPNsense with the former being more popular.

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IPfire runs on ARM.
The BSD based as far as I know NOT

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Interesting indeed.

Category should be changed to site development.

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Linux also can run on ARM

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I think you are thinking / asking this question in the wrong direction.

PG recommendations are not made up of every tool so long as there isn’t a reason not to recommend it. A tool not being recommended by PG doesn’t necessarily mean it is not recommended (as in an anti-recommendation), it may just be unknown, out of scope, or not at the top of the list.

For something to be included, you need to ask and answer, the question: "why should tool xyz be recommended by PG

Linux also can run on ARM

IPfire is Linux

I haven’t used it personally apart from testing in a VM, but it was the runner up for me ~5 years ago when I was looking for a software firewall (I ended up choosing pfSense at th time. I was attracted to it because it was Linux based and I am more familiar with Linux than BSD. In the end I went with pfSense because it had a much larger and more active community and more resources and documentation. If I had to choose again today I’d probably be deciding between pfSense and OPNsense.