Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
...
>I -used- to agree with Bill Campbell that SuSE -was- the best-engineered
>distro out there.  In the SuSE 9 Pro era, this was certainly the case.
>SuSE really went downhill, though.

SuSE got weird shortly after SuSE 9 Pro, the only non-CentOS
version we're using now, exclusively in VMware VMs running SCO
COFF binaries of software I developed under SCO OpenServer.

I'm about to get into Debian related Linux as I get into
RaspBerry PI where I want to use it to build tiny routers and
firewall appliances.  These will need minimal things like a
simple web server to support XMLRPC system calls from Python
programs, largely to remotely administer iptables from other
Linux boxes.  Beyond that the most import thing I need is a
decent Python.

I will be starting with a box to go between our 192.136.111.0/24
CIDR block and our internal LAN provinding NAT for the LAN and
OpenVPN access from the outside world.  This will probably be my
Raspberry Pi development and fiddling box.  Then I plan to do
another to go between our T1 and the 192.136.111.0/24 public
network which will handle our primary firewall against IPs that
have tried port scans and other nasty connection attempts.

Bill
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