(i'll bite to that, even though we're going off-topic, mainly because
Nessus-on-Debian comes to light regularly)
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:20:55AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote:
> Renaud Deraison grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:12:35AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote:
> > > # apt-get install nessus*
> > You'll end up with Nessus 1.0.x if you do that. Until Nessus 2.0 is in
> > their "stable" apt repository (or whatever the name is), I won't
> > recommend debian (except if you want to live in 1998 again).
>
> I use unstable. You're talking about only using the stable distribution.
I'm talking about using the _default_ setup of the distribution. I think
this is what a lot of Debian advocates fail to understand - believe it
or not, not everyone enjoys tweaking his system now and then to install
package from stable and from unstable. If you need to change a single
line to your apt-get.conf to install a post-1998 version of Nessus on
debian, then you're not using the default OS but a tweaked version.
This mostly is why I do not recommand using Debian - people who want to
have fun with their OS might like it, people who simply want to put
their OS to work will run Nessus 1.0.x because of their poor (not to say
stupid) policy of reasoning in terms of distribution and not of packages.
(and this is why I like FreeBSD)
-- Renaud
