[Openswan Users] Best linux for openswan?

[Michael Richardson]

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Openswan will operate equally well with both Debian and SUSE.

I'm a Debian fan. That you can strip is down very easily, and that
you can automatically update with dselect would make the difference to
me. If you are building your own kernels and openswan, making .deb's
on a central box is a little bit harder than making RPMs.

SuSE has some IPsec code in their kernel, which may help or may hinder.
If you are not going run the distro kernel, then that shouldn't matter.

The question that I'd want to answer is - which distro do I think I
can get patches for in five years? Or will I be forced within a year or
so to upgrade to the "latest" to get security patches.

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