Hi Randal, Tenable's focus right now for Nessus 3 is to produce both Windows ad OS X distributions for Nessus 3. We may add Gentoo, but the demand right now is from armies of consultants (most who don't pay for anything from Tenable BTW) armed with OS X laptops and seven-day old vulnerability checks.
I'm sorry you feel chained to Nessus at this point. Pretty much the same folks who started Nessus and have been supporting it over the years are with Tenable. We've added a lot of new users to Nessus and I feel really great about that. Even though there have been some forks of Nessus 2, Tenable is still maintaining the original Nessus 2 code base. It should compile fine for Gentoo and has also been updated since the Nessus 3 release. I'd rather not discuss the merits of the decision to close source the Nessus 3 engine here as it has been discussed at length already. I could not do justice to the volume of posts on various blogs, slashdot and many news articles. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security At 04:52 PM 3/5/2006, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I went to try the (relatively) new version 3 today. After filling out the form, I was given a few platforms for the binary to choose from. Turns out Nessus 3 only works on the horrible Red Hat (-esque) Linux distributions (or FreeBSD). I've always used Gentoo and OpenBSD. Gentoo has a hard masked package for it, but it doesn't work yet. I'm sure I could hack away at the RPM, but that seems messy and unnecessary. How is the schedule looking for supporting other Linux distributions? Are there any updates on <gulp> OpenVAS? Seems like that was a knee-jerk reaction that is fading away. I hope not, because if it works as planned, it will be our only hope to break the chains of locked-in distribution support. Another pet peeve - if I want to download a binary again (or for another OS) I need to complete the form each time. If you want to keep track of downloads, try to make it a little easier (perhaps an account for access)? Though I for the most part agree with the point that Nessus was being used by some evil people for profit on other's labor, this may have been a drastic step. How has the new system benefited Tenable? Was there ever consideration to use another type of license that would allow the release of source code, but not the use for profit by product integration? Thanks, - -- Randal T. Rioux | Procyon Labs IT Security R&D and Consulting Virtual: www.procyonlabs.com Physical: DC / Baltimore PGP: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xD08D1941
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