Re: OS to know.

[Raoul Armfield <armfield () amnh org>]

Ramki B wrote:
>  
> Most of the Security personel use Linux, in fact their laptops have a Linux
> partition for this purpose (even Microsoft guys do this, I have seen couple
> of them).
>
> But I have always wanted to know why linux is prefered?

Linux or some form(flavor) of Unix is prefered because most of the 
pen-testin/auditing software runs best or only runs on those platforms.

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