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What Is Up With ClearOS? What Are Your pfSense alternatives? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by techmattr@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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If I search for ClearOS I find mostly 2+ year old threads. Many older. Many talking about how it has been defunct for years... however if I just visit the site it seems to be still in development and up to date. It also seems like something selfhosted users would like... however I couldn't find any recent discussions on it to see if its garbage or not.

I plan on installing it tomorrow to check it out. I've been trying to migrate away from pfSense but I've been having a hell of a time finding a viable alternative and came across some very old ClearOS threads which is how it got on my radar.

I've been trying to get an OpnSense install up and running but I just can't get it working in the most basic installation. My original plan was just to migrate directly to OpnSense but I've pretty much given up on it.

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[–] CynicalAltruist@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

ClearOS Community basically died. They still exist but only to continue support for existing customers. It’s not active and it hasn’t really changed since 2013.

Basically, everything ClearOS does, another product does better and free-er. TrueNAS Scale for storage, Proxmox or XCP-NG for Virtualization, and both TrueNAS Scale and PVE have containerization support, so you can spin up the services you actually need using a technology that’s modern. For the full package, Univention basically took the ClearOS approach and made it on Ubuntu. In the network side, VyOS and PF/OpnSense took over routing, while the Sense products plus PiHole and AdGuard Home made DNS management easy.