RE: Which Linux distro for a Win32 Snort admin?

[Robert Reid <rreid () 1800FLOWERS com>]

Thanks for the replies guys, lots of good information given.

As for running FreeBSD, this is something I would like to do, but for the
purpose of comparison with our Windows Snort boxes I need to run Linux.

I will most likely go with RedHat 9 for now.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel-wittenberg () starken com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:07 PM
To: Leonard Miller
Cc: rreid () 1800FLOWERS com; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Which Linux distro for a Win32 Snort admin?

Red Hat will stop producing patches/support for Red Hat 9 on April 30, 2004.
So you won't be able to get the patches/updates from Red Hat.  You can
probably still get some updates from the other places listed, but won't
probably be as cleanly applied as they would be if they were from Red Hat.
Since you are on Red Hat you could look at either Fedora or RHEL, since you
only have 3 months of  support left for the RH 9.

Dan


Quoting Leonard Miller <Leonard.Miller () udlp com>:

> To my knowledge, they will support that for another year before 
> completely stopping support.  But then you should still be able to get 
> any updates from apt-get, sourceforge or rpmfind.  Since you already 
> have RH9, you might as well stick with it. We have several RH8 
> machines and do not plan on moving away from them just because RH 
> stopped supporting.  We'll keep them until they die.
>
> Leonard
>
> > > > Robert Reid <rreid () 1800FLOWERS com> 01/08/04 11:20AM >>>
> Morning all,
>
> I have recently been tasked with setting up a 2 sensor Snort IDS which 
> will run Linux on IBM hardware. I have a lot of experience with Win32 
> Snort (ACID and Demarc) but none with Linux.
>
> What would be the best distro to use for this project? I have redhat 
> 9.0 on hand but I was told its no longer supported, obviously I would 
> like to secure this box properly, without RedHat support is it still 
> possible to download patches?
>
> Thanks for any advice given,
>
> Robert
>
>
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