Network Monitoring with Ethereal (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Network Monitoring with Ethereal (Linux Journal)

Posted Feb 13, 2006 20:00 UTC (Mon) by eric_boutilier (guest, #35765)
Parent article: Network Monitoring with Ethereal (Linux Journal)

If there were such a classification as "venerable killer syadmin app", Ethereal would certainly be in it. To put a finer point on this, here are some stats from freshmeat.org.

Ethereal:

Originally released (maturity): 1998
Rating:         8.58/10.00
Vitality:       2.96%
Popularity:     24.58%

That popularity rating places it 30th overall. (So what are the top 5 overall? They are MPlayer, Linux, cdrtools, PHP, and gcc.)

Eric Boutilier
OpenSolaris
(formerly Solaris freeware/Companion CD Product Manager)

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Freshmeat.NET

Posted Feb 14, 2006 15:51 UTC (Tue) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

not .org - freshmeat.org looks like a spam site of some kind...

Freshmeat.NET

Posted Feb 16, 2006 11:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Perhaps it's selling fresh spam? (Spam *is* technically meat, after all, even if some of us consider it the food equivalent of toxic waste.)