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.
