Re: Snort on Linux - Witch Distro?

[snort () brainstomp com]

ok ok ok - I admit it that was one DUMB misspelling. Give me a brake
English is my 4th language.

Felix


> Hi all - I am having one heck of a time getting a 64Bit distro to run
> Snort on. My current Snort box runs on Windows and I really want to stop
> using Windows. I have tried my favorite Distro - SlackWare (10.2) and the
> 64Bit port and neither has native support for my SATA controller. So I
> went on a hunt for a distro to install to run Snort on. So far I have
> tried
>
> Fedora Core 4 64Bit (Would not complete boot up - ever, even tried
> re-installing)
> CentOS 4.2 64Bit (Same results as FC4)
> OpenSuSe 10 64Bit (CD MD5's never matched the downloads - downloaded it 3
> times from different servers)
> Ubuntu 5.10 64Bit (Could not get MySQL running - much less Snort)
>
> I am not very familiar with FreeBSD (or any *BSD) but if the strongest
> response to this is BSD then I'll have to dive into it. Ultimately I just
> want to run a secure 64Bit Linux box that I can run Snort/MySQL/BASE on.
> So with that in mind - What are your suggestions?
>
> Felix
>
>
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