Renaud Deraison grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:54:17AM -0800, Doug Nordwall wrote:
> > I think that people are generally running it on linux, and probably 
> > some on solaris. One could argue that Renaud is French, and therefore 
> > mandrake is the way to go, but really, it doesn't make that much of a 
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Oh please ! Not every french person run Mandrake (I never installed
> it myself).

C'est vrai? ;) Sorry if the spelling is off, I've been out of practice
with my French.

> To answer to the original question : my main developement box is running
> FreeBSD 4.7, but to get optimal performances, you need to create a lot
> of /dev/bpfN (see README.BPF in nessus-libraries).
> 
> If you don't want to recompile your kernel (needed for FreeBSD), I'd
> suggest using RedHat.

Debian works just as well (no kernel recompile necessary):

# apt-get install nessus*

I don't think we should start an OS war on this list though.. :)

-Anne
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