Thanks for the tips. I am not familiar with Gentoo, but I checked their web site, and the propaganda sounds really good.
This generates more questions: You said it will take a long time to set up. Is this a difficult time, or just time consuming? Is most of the time spent configuring Gentoo, or Ntop under Gentoo? Who is in control of the Ntop "Portage" for Gentoo, and how much lag is there when a new version of Ntop is released? Other than removing the fluff, does Gentoo offer anything special that RH doesn't? At the moment, Mac is out of the question. We are knee-deep in Microsoft. In fact, we aren't running any Linux boxes aside from a Freesco router in the lab. I have messed with Linux off and on in the past, and am fairly comfortable getting around the basics, and following instructions for the advanced topics, such as building larger packages. It sounds like RH9 might be slightly better for me, but I might try Gentoo. - Will C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burton M. Strauss III Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop] Recommended stable OS platform for Ntop? RH has issues... 7.3 and 8 are no longer supported as of 31Dec2003 (tomorrow), so those may not be appropriate either. RH9 is the only major major distro with the nptl library (Fedora 1 uses nptl too). However, I do development ON RH9 so - aside from the occasional warning re SIGIGN and child processes, it seems quite stable. I would use Linux - we do a lot less testing, etc. on FreeBSD, although there are a couple of loyal users (Happy Holidays Stanley) who do a lot of testing for us. Luca uses Mac OS X extensively, so that's an option. ntop doesn't work under NetBSD nor OpenBSD, although Julian is close to making O3.4 work... Since you really want a stripped down OS, ntop and no extraneous servers, you might look into Gentoo - it will take a LONG time to get it set up, but at the end of the process, ntop and the associated software will be the ONLY thing running. -----Burton _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
