Re: End of the m0n0wall project

Hi All,

This is a truly sad day.  m0n0wall has served me extremely well (and a 
couple of other people that I've setup boxes for) over the past 10 
years, since I moved from a Linux-based firewall that wasn't anywhere 
near as configurable as m0n0wall at the time.

Admittedly, recently I had been looking at a possible migration to 
physically smaller hardware (HP thin client) and pfSense however the one 
thing that put me off was how convoluted configuring my IPv6 tunnel with 
he.net was.  With m0n0wall, I seem to remember it was as easy as 
entering a couple of addresses into the GUI.

My thanks go out to Manuel and all of the contributors to the project.

All the very best,


Neil.

On 15/02/15 13:01, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> Dear m0n0wall enthusiasts,
>
> on this day 12 years ago, I have released the first version of
> m0n0wall to the public. In theory, one could still run that version —
> pb1 it was called — on a suitably old PC and use it to control the
> Internet access of a small LAN (not that it would be recommended
> security-wise). However, the world keeps turning, and while m0n0wall
> has made an effort to keep up, there are now better solutions
> available and under active development.
>
> Therefore, today I announce that the m0n0wall project has officially
> ended. No development will be done anymore, and there will be no
> further releases.
>
> The forums and the mailing list will be frozen at the end of this
> month. All the contents of the website, repository, downloads, mailing
> list and forum will be archived in a permanent location on the web so
> that they remain accessible indefinitely to anyone who might be
> interested in them.
>
> m0n0wall has served as the seed for several other well known open
> source projects, like pfSense, FreeNAS and AskoziaPBX. The newest
> offspring, OPNsense (https://opnsense.org), aims to continue the open
> source spirit of m0n0wall while updating the technology to be ready
> for the future. In my view, it is the perfect way to bring the
> m0n0wall idea into 2015, and I encourage all current m0n0wall users to
> check out OPNsense and contribute if they can.
>
> Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who
> has been involved in the m0n0wall project and helped in some way or
> another — by contributing code, documentation, answering questions on
> the mailing list or the forum, donating or just spreading the word. It
> has been a great journey for me, and I'm convinced that even now that
> it has come to an end, the m0n0wall spirit will live on in the various
> projects it has spawned.
>
> Manuel Kasper
> 15 February 2015
>
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