New Linux Firewall Releases: IPCop 1.4.0 and Devil-Linux 1.2

Posted Oct 22, 2004 13:15 UTC (Fri) by ladislav (guest, #247) [Link]

Do you mean number of installations? No - as with any freely available distribution, it is nearly impossible to even estimate the user base. SmoothWall (another firewall) used to count their users by including a code that connected to a central counter upon installation - and they claimed numbers that easily competed with some of the most popular distributions. I am not sure if they still do this. My view is that these firewalls are extremely popular, but since they are simple products, most people just install them, set them up and forget about them. That's why they rarely appear in news headlines.