No ... No ... No
If you seriously want to lean Linux do NOT start with "Linux from
Scratch" or Gentoo.
Linux from Scratch will be to much of a change and work for a new user
to Linux. As much as I hate RedHat / CentOS those are the most user
friendly distro's out there. I personally like and use Slackware Linux
because of the simplicity but it does require more hands on experience
if you want to run X.
Gentoo has it's own way of doing things which is great if you want a
change from some of the standard distro's or feel like watching your
machine compile KDE for 3-5 days.
You should pick a user friendly distro to start with and move on from there.
Michael Gale
Simpson, Brett wrote:
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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