HA, i hear ya on that one. I have personally liked RH for server setups, MDK for workstation OR server setups. MDK is based off of RH BUT it separates out the /etc to separate config folders a little more so your base /etc isnt so dirty. Robert Wideman >>-----Original Message----- >>From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org >>[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Martin Stricker >>Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:56 PM >>To: netfilter@lists.samba.org >>Subject: Re: Best distro for firewalls. >> >> >>Vladas Keparoutis wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'd recommend gentoo (gentoo.org) >>> It is very flexible and fast with updates. >> >>Yeah, but you have to compile everything. On the 486 I use as a firewall >>this is more than a pain... >> >>Best regards, >>Martin Stricker >>-- >>Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ >>Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ >>Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ >>Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/