Re: No More Red Hat 9

On 7/19/05, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Leo Howell wrote:
>
> > I don't want to pay for the OS......I want to do automatic
> > updates........is anyone running Nessus on Suse?  Is OS and auto updates
> > free?
>
> Take a look at the Red Hat clones. I have several production machines
> running various tasks with TAO linux on it.
>
> If you need (or just like) RHEL compatibility without the price tag you
> will love it.

One caution specific to Nessus-- I have had a number of strange issues
running plugins on RHEL and clones.  Unfortunately, I have not
identified the cause of them yet but certain versions of Nessus seem
to have problems.

A description of the problem is in this posting I made last year:

http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-August/msg00178.html

The problem seems to be Nessus version dependent and only shows up on
RHEL.  Red Hat 9 and Fedora both work great.  Nessus version 2.2.0rc1
works great, but 2.2.0 (release) doesn't.  It's all very odd, and
unfortunately I haven't had time to really dig into why the memory
errors show up in the nessus.dump file.

Keep this in mind if you head down the RHEL path.  Nessus is the only
application I've found with issues like this.  The longer patch cycles
of RHEL vs. Fedora make it a really good choice for people already
familiar with Red Hat.  CentOS (http://www.centos.org/) is an
excellent RHEL clone with quick turnaround on patches and lots of fast
mirrors.

  -- Steve
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