Re: Distro of choice

[Nick Moore <tsuyoi.usagi () gmail com>]

JJ's right. Windows does not allow you to use shared object rules, which
prevents you from being fully covered.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:51 AM, JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com> wrote:

> The same argument could be made for the FreeBSD ports system... but I think
> that the best answer has already been given.. use what you know / are
> comfortable with.. well, as long as it's not Win 32 ;-)
>
> JJC
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Check out Gentoo Linux. The thing that makes Gentoo great is that it
> > is a source based disto. This means that the package management system
> > downloads the actual source tarball and complies it for your system,
> > as opposed to using precompiled binaries designed to run on any i686.
> > This lets you compile applications with only the options you want and
> > with optimizations specific for your CPU. IMO this results in much
> > better performance. This also reduces the over all size of your
> > system. Why use a binary from an RPM that is compiled with support for
> > a bunch of libraries your never going to use, but you need to install
> > to satisfy the dependancies for that precompiled binary?
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
> >
> > thx,
> > Wally
> >
> > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Alex Kirk <akirk () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > > The reason this is an intelligent recommendation, BTW, is that Snort
> > really
> > > doesn't care which distro you use, at the end of the day. As long as
> > > libpcap, libpcre, etc. are installed and current, the rest of userland
> > is
> > > pretty much irrelevant to how Snort functions. You're way more likely to
> > see
> > > a difference based on the type of network hardware you're using.
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Nerijus Krukauskas <
> > nkrukauskas () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On 2010-05-04, BrainStomp Snort <snort () brainstomp net> wrote:
> > > > > What is the current distro of choice for deployment of snort?
> > > >
> > > > The long standing recommendation is to stick with distro you know best.
> > > >
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