I’m just throwing out suggestions, per @ms original post:
I am asking because we of course would like more people to know of IPFire. Since we do not run any advertising we would like to make the best out of social media.
YouTube is a social media outlet and there is potential to use even review videos by users to help spread the word about this excellent firewall.
I’m not expecting anything, but I emailed Phoronix to ask if they’d consider an open source firewall comparison/review article. Phoronix is a fairly popular Linux review site.
I’m not heavily involved in development ( at the moment ), but I also don’t grap youtube for IPFire material. But I am willing to revise those videos ( completeness, correctness, … )
I am not sure that I can say that. I just don’t have the time to go looking at all you tube videos related to IPFire.
My main you tube video viewing is related to espresso, mountain biking and valve based hifi building and I don’t have the time I would like to view all the ones that look promising on those topics. I stay with the ones that I have found are created by people that I have come to trust in what they are saying and showing.
In terms of IPFire I focus on package updates, bug fixes and forum updates.
I just did a quick search in you tube for IPFire, both reviews and how to’s and just taking ones that are no older than 4 years I got 28 videos totalling 7 hours for just a single viewing.
I certainly don’t have 7 hours available where I am doing nothing and could go through the videos.
I already don’t have enough time to do all the things I would like to work on so I am already making decisions on what I will focus on now and what will get left for somewhere in the future.
That is why the project requires users willing to step forward and volunteer to get involved in things like this, bug fixes and development activities.
I get it, believe me. Was just saying that compared to what is typically searched out on YT, that is a very small sampling. For comparison, there appears to be hundreds of OPNSense and pfSense videos in just the past year.
Looking at Distrowatch’s rankings: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
It seems that OPNSense is by far the most popular firewall distro, but IPFire is holding its own against pfSense, and ahead of it in the past 1 month (probably in large part to being at the top of their homepage for the past couple of days). Now that we got the RSS feeds straightened out, I think IPFire will continue to get good exposure on each release.
I frequent common review sites for networking etc at the scale that makes sense. PFsense, for example, is often reviewed or discussed when the topic of firewall is concerned. Instead of a broad spray of social media, this seems a very targeted engagement. Maybe some sort of effort to get IPFire reviewed and covered by let’s talk a couple dozen such sites? With a serious background review guide provided?
I just joined, but I will use these forums for IPFire. I am a refugee from the Untangle, now known as Artista UTM. I used it for 12 years with the home pro license, but Arist’s aquisition killed that, I used sophos home, but never liked how weak the Intrusion prevention system was compared to IPFire’s. IPFire is my main line of defense, and OPNSense with ZenArmour is my second line of defense. I really like how easy and versatile IPFire is and with upnp remvoved I know I am extremely safe. Hence the main line of defense and OPNsense being second. I don’t like that OPNSense and PFSense still endorses Upnp as the security issues that OPNSense has makes me think if they have no regards for security at all. My PS3 never connects to the upnp service as I might as well hook a windows xp machine directly up to my modem connection. I used upnp on XP back in 2002, and my whole OS got nuked, never again. I have also always been for the free and open developments as they just work.
