Metasploit on FreeBSD (and a couple of other questions)

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:04 -0500, Jim wrote:
> 1. Does anyone have msfgui working on i386 FreeBSD?  The Ruby 
> installation is driving my crazy because of the version specific 
> requirements and the missing zlib bug in 1.8.6.  Mfsconsole works
> fine, but I'd like to use the gui sometimes.  Any tips or pointers?
> (Or if you have a URL for a copy of i386/FreeBSD zlib around, I'd
> appreciate it.

Can't help you there; the MSFGUI requirements are a mess because of
gnome and gtk versioning issues, even on "supported" platforms we get
random crashes depending on GTK versions. You may be better of using
msfweb as a GUI for FreeBSD.
> 2. I'd like to explore writing exploits for Metasploit.  Google gives 
> about a million results.  Are there any really good, comprehensive
> sites for learning about this?

There is nothing comprehensive; no published book really covers
metasploit 3, but you can check the wiki books project:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Metasploit/Contents

> 3. After looking at SuSe, Ubuntu, Fedora, and FreeBSD for my
> pen-testing platform of choice I settled on FreeBSD mainly because
> wireless support  seemed to be the most mature.  Was that a mistake?
> I'm not trying to start a religious war, but is there an OS that is
> generally regarded as the best for running the tools we use that often
> need to do strange things?  (Metasploit, dsniff, aircrack, etc etc
> etc.)

Linux-based is probably your best bet, especially for tools like
aircrack. I would recommend Ubuntu/Debian variants, especially the new
BackTrack 4 Beta, which is preconfigured with all of the kernel patches
and tools you might need (its Ubuntu based and maintainable now).

http://backtrack4.blogspot.com/2009/02/backtrack-4-beta-public-released.html

-HD