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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:22:30 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl 3.0 and Virtual Machine Setup?

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:59:47AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> So I'm clear: for Openwall 3.0 (Owl-3_0-stable-20130408-x86_64), I
> should chose a virtual machine based on Red Hat Enterprise 4? VMware
> is offering RHEL 3, 4, 5 and 6; but RHEL 4 seems kind of odd since its
> from 2005-2010 and Owl 3.0 is dated April 2013.

Out of VMware's choices, RHEL 5 is the closest match - based on the
kernel branch that Owl uses.

Also, for your purposes Owl-current is a better choice than Owl 3.0-stable.
(RHEL 5 is currently the correct choice in VMware for either version.)

Alexander

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