[nylug-talk] Intrusion Detection

[Chris Knadle]

On Monday 31 March 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Chris Knadle wrote:
> >    No, it has a text-based management console.  There's a project going
> > on at sourceforge that's in an Alpha stage to build a GUI for Osiris,
> > programmed in Mono, but I haven't tried it.
> >    http://sourceforge.net/projects/osirisadmin/
>
> I often wonder how many otherwise useful things don't get any traction
> because they've been written for Mono.  Aside from the more obvious
> issues, I find it hard to believe that anyone who'd use Mono knows what
> they're doing.
>
> - Ron

   I never liked the idea of .NET or Mono in the sense that I want to know, 
for sure, what code is being run on my local box, and I want a local copy 
that I have the ability to audit.  I want my OS and my applications local, 
period; that's just my personal preference.

   Others like using Google, Yahoo, etc applications where eveything they 
write and have is online so that it's accessible from anywhere from a 
computer that has a connection and a browser.

   .NET and Mono, if I understand them correctly, seems to me to each be a 
two-headed stepchild that's in-between "local" and "online" and combining the 
drawbacks of both, without having the features of both.  I'm distrusting of 
them and try to avoid them.
   However, I have little to no experience using Mono and zero experience 
developing in either it or .NET, so my opinion in this case may be woefully 
ignorant.  Your milage may vary.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us