Zeroshell

Reader supplied reviews for Zeroshell Average rating 8.5 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on Zeroshell? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.9.33.7.13.3.23.0.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.9.0 Rating: 8 Date: 2018-08-09 Votes: 5 Excellent distro to setup, maintain and protect your enterprise network. I have a network of 7 sites with VPN, firewall and QoS rules to rule them all! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.7.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2018-07-26 Votes: 0 I was looking for a software router to provide me with the flexibility of configuring the router to the needs of my personal setup. Having previously used a commercial software which is no longer available, I was on the search for an alternative. I stumbled across zeroshell and decided to try it out. I was very impressed with the flexibility of the software. I am running it on a virtual linux machine and it has so far run flawlessly. It does not use a lot of resources and can conveniently be configured using a web browser. I particularly like the fact that you can use whatever internet connects are connected to the virtual machine(or physical machine) and thereafter build the system to your requirements. I have yet to fully implement the full features that this router offers such as implementation of the proxy server, internet agreggation/bonding. It has a medium learning curve but with the options that are provided for configuration it is part of the package. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.7.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2017-03-19 Votes: 25 Considering this is open source and actively developed it's a very feature rich routing OS built on top of the Linux kernel. Ease of setup is comparable to say DD-WRT or OpenWRT as long as you're not afraid of the command line and you have a relatively modern CPU (I'm using an atom 230 from 2008) install takes around 3 minutes. Configuration, however, takes as long as you want it to. This is a feature rich firewall/router distro, think of pfsense but it's not so picky about what you install it to. I had a serious difficulty getting pfsense to work on my Zotac atom board, I had trouble getting it to work on an AMD FX 8600 as well. Zeroshell, however, installed and booted almost instantly. Running from a 16gb SSD from an old Chromebook and on a 9-year-old SOC Zotac board I'm very impressed with its capabilities. The only reason it's not getting a full 10 stars is because documentation on install is not as complete as I would like. If I didn't have years of distro hopping under my belt and followed the install procedure to at I would have run into some prickly issues as to the overcomplicated install directions I found online. I did a simple dd if=/path/to/source.img of=/dev/usb bs=4M and had the router up and running in 10 minutes. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of Zeroshell...