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Re: OS to know.

Subject: Re: OS to know.
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:32:54 -0400
Ramki B wrote:
Most of the Security personel use Linux, in fact their laptops have a Linux
partition for this purpose (even Microsoft guys do this, I have seen couple
of them).


But I have always wanted to know why linux is prefered?


Linux or some form(flavor) of Unix is prefered because most of the pen-testin/auditing software runs best or only runs on those platforms.


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