[Bro] linux vs freebsd
Ken Gunderson
kgunders at teamcool.net
Thu Dec 4 21:00:00 PST 2008
Lest you misinterpret, I could tell a LOT more horror stories about
Linux, particularly RH, than FBSD. But with RHEL you get someone else to
blame. That's the big one for corp liability types.
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:43 -0500, Stephen Smith wrote:
> It sounds like FreeBSD is still the way to go for production Bro
> boxes. I have been very pleased with the speed and stability of
> FreeBSD 7, and 6.x before it. My interest in running Bro on Linux was
> due to some issues encountered in integrating FreeBSD into the
> enterprise environment I deal with. Something like RHEL is accepted a
> bit more by the C&A auditors since there are more defined "guidelines"
> for "securing" it. If that makes any sense at all.
>
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Richard Bejtlich
> <taosecurity at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ken Gunderson
> <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
> >
> > I should amend my FBSD statement to note that pre 5.x
> releases, and 4.x
> > in particular, served us extremely well!
> >
> > --
> > Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>
> >
>
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> It might be time to try FreeBSD again. I've been running 6.x
> and 7.0
> (soon 7.1) in production for the last few years and have been
> happy.
> Early 5.x (5.0 through 5.2.1) weren't considered
> "STABLE" (that
> happened in 5.3), so I understand plenty of concerns with
> those
> releases.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard
>
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