Wondering why astaro doesn't just say it out loud: "We don't like home installations anymore."
While I can understand their business decisions about making everything modular for business use (i.e. they are here to make money) and charging for everything, the side effect is that products like smoothwall are beginning to look kind of attractive which is a bloody shame if you ask me.
My reasoning behind this is pretty simple:
1) No IDS for home users (And since they moved portscan here that is disabled too).
2) Already paid for antivirus for mail, but now they are going to charge again for web scanning. (And btw seems like I can have a licence for mail virus scan, but not for pattern updates... That will work great after a few months… not)
3) Spam assassin which were great in V4 is now also disabled (And this is also
4) SMP which is a very native thing in linux is suddenly costing money. (Ok ok… I know to truly be able to use SMP programs have to be written for it, but since most proxy’s etc in astaro is opensource products this is not something astaro have to do)
So basicly were down to a linux iptables firewall with a few preconfigured proxy’s, a nice gui and some decent reporting/logging... This seems a lot like smoothwall (and it even have IDS hehehe)
Anyways enough ramblings for now... I’ll just stick to my V4 where I’m very happy with my spam filter [:)]
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