The OpenVAS project, a free and open source replacement for Nessus, announced its first stable release yesterday afternoon. This release includes server installation packages for OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo, and FreeBSD. A client only package is available for Windows.
Nessus, one of the standards in vulnerability scanners, was an open source project until a couple of years ago. This project is a fork from the last open version.
From Full Disclosure:
The OpenVAS project is proud to announce the release of the first stable
version of the "Open Vulnerability Assessment System". OpenVAS is a fork of
the Nessus security scanner; while Nessus switched to a proprietary license,
OpenVAS will continue to improve the scanner and will provide all components
as Free Software.{From FullDisclosure: OpenVAS Stable Release]
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