On Oct 6, 2005, at 9:53, Jon Passki wrote:
For those wishing to assist in the debugging aspects for non-RedHat
systems, what can we do? I'm thinking along the lines of FreeBSD
and Gentoo.
We'll start to perform builds on other systems. However at the moment
Red Hat is a platform we have 100% confidence on, and we'd rather
have people test Nessus3 on this OS and report performance results
(or - God forbids - crashes), rather than play the game of "is the
distribution or Nessus to blame for this weird result". As time goes
by and when we receive feedback we're happy with, then we'll start
doing more platforms.
It sounds like the engine will be a binary download, possibly
containing redistribution restrictions, while a majority of the
plugins will be open-source (outside of policy ones), correct?
The plugins have their source available for viewing (like today) but
not open-source in the OSI sense.
Also, what kind of restrictions does this carry for companies that
use Nessus3 in a vendor capacity (e.g. scanning 3rd party
networks)?
None in terms of usage. There are restrictions in the plugin feed,
not on the engine. You can't use Nessus3 in a redistributed
appliance, though.
-- Renaud
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