[Openswan Users] Best linux for openswan?

[SianLun Lau]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:14:46 -0500
Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

> 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.

do take note if you plan to also include NAT, use only Suse 8.1 or 8.2 instead of others. i read that from 
 http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/FreeSWAN/

> 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.

i think that leaves Redhat and Fedora out? Debian would always have security updates there for everyone, and pretty fast too.

regards
SianLun