Re: [Snort-inline-users] what distro for snort-inline?

[James A. P. <ja...@pc...>]

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William Metcalf wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| I thought that I would start a thread to find out what flavor of linux
| you guy's prefer for building a snort-inline box. The reason I'm posing
| this question is that I'm once again in search of a new distro. I was
| using Trustix, but it seems they have gone the way of RedHat, and have
| decided to charge for a "more secure" Trustix. The problem I have had in
| the past is of course "bloat", insecure initial configuration, and
| nothing that had the additional security measures such as grsecurity,
| and ibm's ssp patch for gcc, that a device such as this should have. I
| have built LFS and various other roll-your-own's in the past, but found
| portability to be a problem.


I'm using Debian testing with good success.

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