[CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server

[Gordon Messmer]

On 06/29/2015 06:46 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Even considering a minimal CentOS install, is that still less minimal than
> e.g. Smoothwall or Ipcop?

Yes, a minimal install of CentOS is probably larger (less minimal) than 
a specialized distribution.

> In my world, security has a price and, and that might be the need to learn
> another distro in order to minimize security issues (and maybe as in this
> case minimize attack-surfaces).

When all of your systems are one OS, you can more easily build an 
infrastructure that provides backups, security and bug fix updates, 
monitoring, etc for all of your systems.  Specialized devices are often 
left out when admins set up infrastructure to provide those services for 
their primary systems.  That's one way that a general purpose OS can be 
significantly better than a specialized OS.