Here is the community speaking, but which direction the Nethserver teams are talking about, going nuts with Gentoo or simply building Ansible Playbook ?
Looked into this idea a little bit and started with OPNsence, which has an extensive api:
https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api.html
so yes, just from this one query it is possible.
Looking further into the internals of OPNsence found something else remarkable,
at least I had never heard of it.
An other framework for creating templates which is actively developed: Jinja
https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/master/intro/
Not suggesting e-smith does not a good job, just interesting how others cope with this. 
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Hi folks,
if Nethserver has to change the distribution completely away from RHEL/CentOS/…, could Proxmox be an option?
Please forgive me my ignorance, I dont know how much work this would be…
By OS perspective, Proxmox is… hardware. Just like KVM, VirtualBox, ESX.
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Proxmox is 1 to 1 Debian inside!
And we’ve already discussed Debian above. I would not oppose that! 
My 2 cents
Andy
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Hey guys; I was just taking a look at DistroWatch and I saw a new distro AlmaLinux which is already based on RHEL 8 and is already more popular than Nethserver
it look pretty strong: https://almalinux.org
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I would favor Alma or even better: Rocky Linux. Prefer Rocky since there is no commercial company behind it, but a foundation.
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People are looking for a new home. Mentioning so many times the community is a bit weird 
And very positive for me
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It depends on the outcome for NethServer. And the drawbacks that the policy change of RedHat will bring to your project.
Currently, the drop of shorewall (outiside CentOS/NethServer 7) is my concerning point… After the big Stream (allegedly) mess
Meanwhile in the Rocky Linux community:
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Hello Guys
First the same as mostly good work
I am using Linux sine kernel 1.0 and Slackware since 0.9. The are alo of nice un fine running distributions. So dying over the time.
As the base of neth you need a ligth and textbase server dist…
Please do not use anykind of Ubuntu … When ever i try them it was bad :-(, no fine support and to mutch software you do not need ever.
Same with MINT it is fine running desktop version, but nothing else. I am using this to 20 Version.
There are not so mutch server dist… Debian, well supported a loooong time, stable but mostly old fashion and CentOS.
Suse Sever is nice but only if you pay…
What else first a BSD or extremly Solaris …
thx Axel
Hi all,
Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Available Now
Installing Rocky Linux: https://docs.rockylinux.org/en/rocky/8/guides/rocky-8-installation
Log In
The system is now set up and ready for use. You will see the adorable Rocky Linux console.
To log onto the system, type rockstar at the login prompt and press enter.
At the Password prompt, type 04302021 (rockstar’s password) and press enter.
Link Directory
https://wiki.rockylinux.org/en/link-directory.
Rocky Linux Mattermost
https://chat.rockylinux.org/login.
DistroWatch
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11233…
Minimum
Workstation
Have Rocky, will travel…
Michel-André
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Hi all,
Jack Wallen kicks the tires of the RC 1 release of Rocky Linux and finds it a more than worthy replacement for CentOS.
Michel-André
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But is there a minimal version? This RC has the Gnome desktop etc.
Let the NS8 development begin…
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Thanks, my bad. I simply only looked at the arch and forgot to notice the versions.
Playing with it now, looks to be a happily boring OS in that no errors or unexpected items so far while installing & initial go through.
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In Dutch : regeren is vooruit zien (goolge translate : to rule is to look into the future)
So kind of looked if Rocky Linux can run on an RPI 
Provided a matching kernel compiled against rocky linux aarch64 it does 
See:
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