Re: best suited linux distro for snort?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

I'd back BSD.  Without empirical evidence.


On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com> wrote:

> I would agree with BSD.. it's going to be faster at the IO level then
> linux (from most things I've seen) but as for a linux distro..  I
> prefer Cent, for stability, but you sometimes have to fight old
> libraries.  For quicker, simpler, almost always working, you use
> debian/ubuntu.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Gregory W. MacPherson
> <greg () constellationsecurity com> wrote:
> > Solaris or FreeBSD :)
> >
> > -- Greg
> >
> > On or about 2013.03.26 10:43:05 +0000, ali hamza (qubee800 () hotmail com) said:
> >
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > currently I am using snort on Ubuntu but i wanna ask it which linux distro is best suited for snort?
> > > which shows the best performance with snort?
> > >
> > > Regards...
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