I disagree on one small point: If you try out VPC5 you will see dramatic improvements; even more enhanced if you are using a G4 processor (the VPC5 takes advantage of the Altivec engine). My .02, Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:49 AM To: 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. Eric, Here is what I would suggest. Definitely go with dual boot over a virtual OS installation. Why? I've used VMWare and I've used Virtual PC, neither of them allow any kind of real performance. Case in point, I have a P4 1.6 GHz PC with 512 MB of RAM, the guest OS always ran poorly. No matter how I allocated my resources, I had next-to-zero performance. Now, for my suggested software, take a look at Partition Magic (which comes with Bootmagic as I recall). This is a GREAT utility to have. It can perform NTFS-FAT32 FAT32-NTFS transitions and more. Not only that, but it handles disk partitioning much better than Windows does on any day of the week. A clear choice for partitioning your hard drive in my opinion. And, Bootmagic will definitely be a plus when you setup the dual boot. It is a commercial app, but it is one I have happily forked over the cash for. Hope that helps, Bejon -----Original Message----- From: Eric Zatko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nessus follow up question. Hello Everyone, First I want to thank everyone that passed along advice regarding free system hardening software. Nessus seems to be the undisputed choice, but there were a few other options and I will look into all of them. Secondly, I will need to put Unix/Linux on a machine to use Nessus so I'm looking for advice. First, are there advantages to putting it on my laptop? If so, any recommendations for dual-boot software? Next, has anyone used VMWare, and if so would it work in this application, or is there a better solution? I know there are a lot of questions here... so if you rather, just give me your best solution. Again, in a bureaucracy, free is always better. Many thanks in advance. Eric Zatko e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
