5.20 was released 4 days ago. Of note, Nmap 5.21 is already going to be released within 7 days due to some bugs. That's news!
Also Zenmap has been stable since September 2008 and its first inception was released in a dev build in July 2007. Not news!
For the average non-graphix oriented linux user in the modern 2-16gb-of-ram-world, a swap space of 2048mb is enough. To go over that means your hard drive takes longer to seek over a larger area. I'm sure there may be situations that demand more than 2gb of swap space, but as an average* linux user with say 4gb of ram, you don't NEED 8gb of swap. its overkill and you will actually see a performance DROP instead of increase.
*by average I mean most common uses of linux, not average experience.
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Another note : the current SVN build of nmap fixes all the known bugs being addressed in 5.21. So if you like dev builds... there you go.
5.20 was released 4 days ago. Of note, Nmap 5.21 is already going to be released within 7 days due to some bugs. That's news! Also Zenmap has been stable since September 2008 and its first inception was released in a dev build in July 2007. Not news!
For the average non-graphix oriented linux user in the modern 2-16gb-of-ram-world, a swap space of 2048mb is enough. To go over that means your hard drive takes longer to seek over a larger area. I'm sure there may be situations that demand more than 2gb of swap space, but as an average* linux user with say 4gb of ram, you don't NEED 8gb of swap. its overkill and you will actually see a performance DROP instead of increase. *by average I mean most common uses of linux, not average experience.