Weeding Out Solutions

The potential solutions list was a little overwhelming so I decided to start to weed out some of them starting in the security category. So far I have eliminated the following:

Euronode - no English documentation on website
Astaro - could not find a link for the free version only a trial version

Smoothwall have a very polished and well thought out website, over 15,000 forum members and VMware images of product.

The new security list is:

• Untangled
• ClarkConnect
• IPcop
• Smoothwall
• mOnOwall
• redWall
• Gibraltar
• Devil-Linux

After a quick review of the website I would have to rank the software into three tiers:

Tier 1

• ClarkConnect
• IPcop
• Smoothwall
• Untangled

Tier 2

• Gibraltar
• mOnOwall
• redWall
  

Tier 3

• Devil-Linux
  

I still need to work on a list of what this server should be able to accomplish.