The website hasn't been updated since , so at the moment this project doesn't look promising. There are other systems that are relevant, and receive updates, but we still don't recommend them, at least to less technical users. We don't recomment the below systems, because they require relatively high expertise to perform simple tasks.
For these reasons we don't recommend the following systems:. We love VyOS, but we highly discourage our customers from getting it, unless they really know what they are doing. This system must be managed from command line, and it requires high level of expertise to maintain and use.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD are actively developed and are very capable, but these systems require a high level of understanding of operating system internals, and low-level networking to be used as routers. We routinely install both systems for customers that are experts, such as network administrators or software developers.
If you don't want to mess with system internals and spend hours reading manuals, this is not a system for you. It's a barebones terminal based system. These systems are not intended for routers. They are general purpose operating systems, and should not really be used as routers. There are also a few systems we don't recommend because they are not truly free or open source. Untangle NG Firewall is truly great software, with many happy users. We don't recommend it because the free version is very limited, and the operating system constantly incentivizes the users to upgrade to a paid subscription to unlock the cool functionality.
Sophos "XG Firewall" distribution has a very nice user interface and is free for home use. We generally don't recommend it because it's not a system that Sophos itself promotes. Sophos' website seems to make it purposefully hard to find, and the community is very small.
Sophos, in general, is an enterprise software company, with one community product. There's no Open Source spirit here. Endian is actually pretty cool, and free. We don't recommend it because features like WiFi are available only in paid subscriptions. Similar to Untangle, it's good software, but you have to pay for it - this disqualifies it from our consideration. To choose the best Operating System for routers we have set a few basic guidelines.
All systems not compatible with these guidelines have been rejected. These basic requirements are reducing the list of recommendations to 4 systems. OPNSense is one of the most quickly developing operating systems on the market today. It's an easy to use, mature system with slick UI. OPNSense includes most if not all features found in expensive, enterprise commercial firewalls. It has the quality of a commercial product while being completely free and open source.
It includes features not available in competing products, such as supports for WireGuard - the latest and greatest VPN software. OPNSense offers weekly security updates, which makes is one of the most secure solutions on the market. Each year there are 2 major releases of the operating system, that bring many new features. It's a stable solution that we often recommend to users that are not sure which operating system to choose. OpenWRT is a Linux-based operating system for routers, recognized almost by everyone.
It's been first released in , over 15 years ago and is still actively developed and maintained. You can configure this OS in countless different ways. It also offers load balancing and failover of multiple Internet connections. You can configure the settings through the Web-based control panel.
Another option is Untangle. Also works on older PC and turns it into a router. Sophos have a free version of their paied firewall.
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