> On Jun 5, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:

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> Following this principle, I would like to see things such as the multimedia
> stack we currently support in IPFire 2.x go in IPFire 3.x.

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Peter,

This should be an interesting discussion, but first I want to confirm that I am reading the above sentence correctly. Specifically, “go in” could be interpreted two different ways:

1.) be added to
2.) be removed from

I assume it’s the latter, based on the context, but I figured it was worth asking just to be certain.

As for your main question, I understand the impulse for users to want to have a single machine to host files, serve as a firewall, be a hypervisor, and so on, but I tend to agree with your assessment that the firewall should be as dedicated a machine as possible.

As for the firmware issue, is it not possible to boot from another medium to accomplish this goal?

Tom