As a network and security person, I have never been able to justify/use any of the Microsoft systems on my systems equipped with tools for such areas, as I couldn't compile (or find binaries) for the majority of the stuff I am interested in - but I have used Linux for a long time for this. Now - when MacOSX came out with Panther - it was about the same time I was building a honeynet, struggling with some tools on a Linux laptop, to be used as monitor. A friend of mine had a G5 desktop, and challenged me to share with him the source of some programs I was having problems getting to run in Linux (libnet versions usually are the "killers" of sanity here) - and he had them all up in 1/10 of the time I've spent!
Next thing? Apple store --> G4 1GHz iBook + 640 MB of RAM and ABSOLUTELY all the tools I have ever used/tried/dreamed of having, installed and running on this machine.
Would I switch - then - from my Linux x86 machines at home, from Linux to MacOSX? If in need for tools, and to save my sanity + the best GUI I have ever worked with + the highest stability of any system I have worked ==> of course!
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As a network and security person, I have never been able to justify/use any of the Microsoft systems on my systems equipped with tools for such areas, as I couldn't compile (or find binaries) for the majority of the stuff I am interested in - but I have used Linux for a long time for this. Now - when MacOSX came out with Panther - it was about the same time I was building a honeynet, struggling with some tools on a Linux laptop, to be used as monitor. A friend of mine had a G5 desktop, and challenged me to share with him the source of some programs I was having problems getting to run in Linux (libnet versions usually are the "killers" of sanity here) - and he had them all up in 1/10 of the time I've spent! Next thing? Apple store --> G4 1GHz iBook + 640 MB of RAM and ABSOLUTELY all the tools I have ever used/tried/dreamed of having, installed and running on this machine. Would I switch - then - from my Linux x86 machines at home, from Linux to MacOSX? If in need for tools, and to save my sanity + the best GUI I have ever worked with + the highest stability of any system I have worked ==> of course!