Maybe in the direction of VyOS ( ), which is linux based, and currently API-only. What I personally would like (and I'm still using a mix of pfSense and OpnSense for all GUI-needing systems) is an API-first system, with either no GUI at all, or an optional GUI. For OpnSense, they are probably going to try to not make a split product, but instead try the vendor network model where you make money by selling support and perhaps pre-configured hardware for people that are stuck between prosumer and home gear needs.
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Most of the advertised stuff (again, goes for both) that you'd get for using open source software isn't really that much of an advantage anyway, most users never report bugs, write patches, inspect the OS, or check checksums. a prosumer/entry-level device from an existing brand are getting smaller and smaller. I'm predicting that pfSense will try very hard to go full-on commercial, perhaps using the open core model like GitLab does, but probably failing at the commercial side because the advantages (that that goes for OpnSense too) vs. On top of that, prosumer vendors are now getting the hang of it and are releasing affordable, supported, yet not too-expensive hardware for most of the setups you'd see those BSD-based WebUIs in. PfSense is shooting itself in the foot by being (petty) d.cks, OpnSense is shooting itself in the foot by (and this is hearsay afaik) technical deficiencies in the primary backing team. Once you go commercial or deep technical, none of the projects make sense as you are almost always better of going current with a configuration management based system (like plain pf on a BSD in combination with something like SaltStack, Ansible, or Chef) or go classic with one of the larger vendors like Cisco and Juniper. I switched from pfSense to OpnSense not because of any real diffrence between the two, but because of the backing community, which is more for the users than it is for me personally most people using this stuff are in the home of SMB markets and are much more serviced by a Web UI and a community than some commercial entity. Projects like pfSense, OpnSense and other GUI-on-top-of-OS systems are only sensible for more end-user applications and community driven approaches.
Perhaps, but the pfSense community has gotten toxic over the past few years, mostly due to the commercial side and the very aggressive stance towards any perceived loss of income.
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