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Just noticed yesterday pfsense upgrade to 2.7.0 was out
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I get the gist of what Opnsense is from the name, but what are some of the practical benefits for a small home labber to use it over PFsense?
The UI is way, way better. I also haven’t had opnsense corrupt itself, but PFsense did that to me twice in the five or so years I used it.
Other than that there aren’t a lot of functional differences. There was some drama years ago with the guy who runs PFsense and I guess he’s kind of a giant asshole, that’s what led to the fork, but I don’t remember the details.
I got it all configured before I figured out the benefits and haven't bothered to migrate since both of them basically do the job for me.
I've used opnsense in other applications since where I've wanted a good firewall that runs on x86 hardware.
Really, the same reason I didn't upgrade for 3 months, it's a piece of invisible infrastructure unless something is wrong. I only noticed the upgrade because I was going in to add another static dhcp binding for a new server.