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by ddeck 4165 days ago
Also worth adding that the ERL runs EdgeOS, which is actually a fork of Vyatta 6.3 with some added features and certain hardware accelerations. [1]

Vyatta was acquired by Brocade in 2012, after which the community edition was sidelined and the main product became closed source. Thankfully Vyatta core was forked in 2013 and re-branded as VyOS (free and open source) and is under active development. [2]

I've used pfSense in the past and VyOS currently and found both to be excellent.

[1] https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/EdgeOS-vs-Vyatta/td-p/...

[2] http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page