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Re: nessus on linux 9.0
From: Schneider Sebastian <ses () straightliners de>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:09:25 +0200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Actually the -kernel- is in different versions, that is 2.4.21 is the current stable tree. 2.4.22 is currently tagged as release candidate 2 (prepatch level). Chris is right when saying kernel version 2.6 is stell in the beta phase (test 3). The "linux version" which was pointed out is regarding the distribution version. Mandrake is currently in version 9.1. RedHat's and SlackWare's distribution is of version 9. SuSE is still in 8.2. To answer the server/workstation question, there is no real difference in installing linux as a workstation or a server. Those differences are "just" regarding the kernel, security and software features compiled, added or installed. Referring to the original question about nessus, there's a pretty neat documentation about installation and pre-requisites to be found at http://nessus.org/documentation.html or http://nessus.org/install.html , respectively. Kindest Regards, Sebastian On Monday 18 August 2003 09:09, Meidinger Chris wrote:
linux is currently version 2.4, with 2.6 in beta. SlackWare linux is in version 9, as is RedHat and at least Mandrake. I am not sure if other linuxes are in version 9. as far as installing nessus, a simple workstation will serve your purposes. A 'server' installation will install services and daemons that you don't need, and most likely no grafical interface that you do need. A 'workstation' inst. will give you everything you need for a desktop environment, which is all you need for nessus. badenIT GmbH System Support Chris Meidinger Tullastrasse 70 79108 Freiburg -----Original Message----- From: gautam nijhawan [mailto:gautam_rit () yahoo com] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:56 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: nessus on linux 9.0 Hi I had a question to ask abt nessus.If I need to instal nessus do I need to install a server version of linux 9.0 or if I just install as a workstation, wud it serve the purpose? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
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- Re: nessus on linux 9.0, (continued)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 Ansgar Wiechers (Aug 18)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 ~Kevin Davis³ (Aug 18)
- RE: nessus on linux 9.0 Byron Copeland (Aug 18)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 ~Kevin Davis³ (Aug 19)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 chort (Aug 20)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 ~Kevin Davis³ (Aug 20)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 ~Kevin Davis³ (Aug 19)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 Scott Zawalski (Aug 18)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 dan (Aug 18)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 Jeff (Aug 18)
- RE: nessus on linux 9.0 Meidinger Chris (Aug 18)
- Re: nessus on linux 9.0 Schneider Sebastian (Aug 20)