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That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is s

by dgemm 6y ago

That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.

zamadatix 6y ago
Note this in the development tree not the stable release tree. No 7.x has not been released as stable yet and probably won't be for a while. The stable 6.x is still based on an ancient 3.X kernel.
a012 6y ago
Mikrotik users were requesting support of Wireguard since 2018 but Mikrotik didn't do it because Wireguard wasn't v1.0. At that time, wireguard.com listed dozen of OS/distributions you can use with wg. Mikrotik thread: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093 https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093
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the8472 6y ago
Fedora 32 has wireguard. So does any rolling release distro. And for distros with older kernels there are loadable modules that retrofit it. Openwrt has had it for quite some time now.
- nullify88 6y ago
  Indeed. Official packages exist for Centos / RHEL 7 & 8 for those that need it.
duhast 6y ago
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ships with Wireguard.
- zx2c4 6y ago
  And it was backported to 18.04 and 16.04. And the Debian backports kernel. And SUSE enterprise. And... So indeed GP's comment isn't totally accurate.
jlgaddis 6y ago
> We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. MikroTik users don't have it in stable RouterOS releases either. This is a development ("beta") release for testing purposes.
chromedev 6y ago
There are lots of stable Linux distros running the stable kernel which is 5.8. it is just distros like RHEL that call themselves stable, but are actually antiquated and honestly just give users a bad experience because most of the software is outdated. Wouldn't expect anything less from IBM.
- gsich 6y ago
  Redhat did that before they were bought by IBM.
  - chromedev 6y ago
    I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.
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    - fomine3 6y ago
      Just "not for me". It's for enterprise as the name says.
      - chromedev 6y ago
        So is Alpine Linux. Almost no enterprise I've worked at lately wants to deal with antiquated software as long as their Kubernetes distro is working well.
    - silly-silly 6y ago
      How did Arch and Alpine innovate ?
      - chromedev 6y ago
seba_dos1 6y ago
I think it's more thanks to the fact that WireGuard recently got merged to upstream Linux, so all you need to do is to update the kernel and enable it in defconfig.

by dgemm 6y ago

zamadatix 6y ago

Note this in the development tree not the stable release tree. No 7.x has not been released as stable yet and probably won't be for a while. The stable 6.x is still based on an ancient 3.X kernel.

a012 6y ago

Mikrotik users were requesting support of Wireguard since 2018 but Mikrotik didn't do it because Wireguard wasn't v1.0. At that time, wireguard.com listed dozen of OS/distributions you can use with wg. Mikrotik thread: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093 https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093

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the8472 6y ago

Fedora 32 has wireguard. So does any rolling release distro. And for distros with older kernels there are loadable modules that retrofit it. Openwrt has had it for quite some time now.

nullify88 6y ago
Indeed. Official packages exist for Centos / RHEL 7 & 8 for those that need it.

duhast 6y ago

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ships with Wireguard.

zx2c4 6y ago
And it was backported to 18.04 and 16.04. And the Debian backports kernel. And SUSE enterprise. And... So indeed GP's comment isn't totally accurate.

jlgaddis 6y ago

> We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet. MikroTik users don't have it in stable RouterOS releases either. This is a development ("beta") release for testing purposes.

chromedev 6y ago

There are lots of stable Linux distros running the stable kernel which is 5.8. it is just distros like RHEL that call themselves stable, but are actually antiquated and honestly just give users a bad experience because most of the software is outdated. Wouldn't expect anything less from IBM.

gsich 6y ago
Redhat did that before they were bought by IBM.
- chromedev 6y ago
  I was never a fan of RHEL even before they got purchased. They've done some great things lately with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, etc but never really been an innovator when it comes to desktop Linux. I see Arch and Alpine being the real innovators, and projects like wlroots.
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  - fomine3 6y ago
    Just "not for me". It's for enterprise as the name says.
    - chromedev 6y ago
      So is Alpine Linux. Almost no enterprise I've worked at lately wants to deal with antiquated software as long as their Kubernetes distro is working well.
  - silly-silly 6y ago
    How did Arch and Alpine innovate ?
    - chromedev 6y ago

seba_dos1 6y ago

I think it's more thanks to the fact that WireGuard recently got merged to upstream Linux, so all you need to do is to update the kernel and enable it in defconfig.