> You and 4 other guys are moving things from Linux to FreeBSD. > > The rest of the world is moving things from UNIX and Windows to Linux. > > CentOS-7 rebuild RHEL sources and most all of the "important" Enterprise > Linux things are moving to RHEL. > > RHEL runs the stock exchanges, the banks, etc. > > Free BSD is fine and people can use it if they like ... but if you want > real Enterprise grade software, it needs to be RHEL based, that is just > the way it is. > > Keep in mind that EL 7.0 is a 'dot zero release' and some of the > features need work. It works for the majority of use cases, but some > features will need to be enhanced, and Red Hat will enhance it. When > they do, we will build the source code and it will be in CentOS. > > I hear you Johnny, I'm a big RH fan, but there is several things that they have shifted to in RHEL 7 that just chafes a little. I am dual hat guy, network and IS and when iptables with firewalld, at a minimum I would like the ability to be able to accomplish the same things I accomplished with iptables. I read about firewalld the pros and cons and I understand the shift and reason. But I do have heartburn when they call something a "firewall" and you cannot drop all the packets. It's not like they didn't know about it since I read about it in fedora and it's not clear if it will be addressed. There are lots of use cases where I want to control all of the packets coming and going from a box, I see this becoming more so moving forward. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future release, trying to figure out where I can go to now and keep up to date with the latest firewalld info, just to stay clued in.