Re: which distribution to choose

I have a similar project, I chose debian, and openvpn.
The reason I chose debian is its specific security mirrors for apt-get.
Just cron the job to grab from the security apt-get site daily (or 
however you wish)
and its usually patched well.



Jochen Witte wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I would like to set up a firewall to protect a small company network. What
>I would like to have is some kind of VPN solution (OpenVPN and ipsec),
>iptables firewalling and a secure distribution with some additional
>sec-related sofware (tripwire etc.). Also I need to run an Apache for
>proxy-requests. 
>
>My question is, which distribution to choose for such a
>setup. I would prefer a standard distribution for easy updates and
>community support. A specific "security-enhanced" distribution would do it
>also, if it is not too "pure" :)
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Regards
>Jochen
>
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