On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:09:00PM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The Linux Journal Magazine for February of this year reports that Tripwire has been taken proprietary. I don't have the mag in front of me, but inquiry on Googol would surely be helpful. They also say that Tripwire is the best of the lot. So pay the man! --doug
Tripwire was originally developed at the University of Purdue and was distributed as open source up through version 1.2. After that, IIRC, a couple of the original developers started the commercial tripwire company and they have continued to develop it as closed source for a fee (incuding a Windows version). When I evaluated the commercial version, I found that it had a lot of overhead and stuff I didn't need/want. I actually prefer the 1.2 open source version because it creates much smaller databases and runs faster. However, if anyone wants to use tripwire, you should do your own evaluation of the two versions to see which makes more sense for your situation. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net