RE: OS to know.

A good Linux OS to start with is Gentoo Linux or Linux from Scratch. They will 
allow you to get a better understanding of how Linux is put together and 
compile applications. Some security apps you will need to compile with special 
patches in order to get certain features.

Brett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: crazy frog crazy frog [mailto:i.m.crazy.frog@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 6:35 PM
> To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: OS to know.
>
>
> hi,
> i suggest you to learn the linux or any other linux like system
> thorughly.try to learn the basic concept.once u mastered tht u can
> easily learn any other os.
>
> On 10/16/05, Patrick <pharper@theinfosecgroup.com> wrote:
> > David Gillett wrote:
> >
> > >  Some of the tools that make my job much easier are only
> > > available on Linux....
> > >  There's probably no reason Windows or Mac versions couldn't
> > > be written, except that nobody has done it (well) yet.
> > >
> > > David Gillett
> > Actually there is, raw socket support and tcp connection 
> limits from Sp2
> > for XP break some things.  Just load up a Linux box and 
> learn the OS, it
> > is a lot of fun.  I wrote an easy to follow install guide 
> for snort that
> > is on the snort.org site that can get you going with both snort and
> > Linux.it is written for CentOS, Fedora Core, or RHEL 
> (Redhat Enterprise
> > Linux)
>
>
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