Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo for server

[Chris Fisher]

Is there an un-official or more official status update of GLEP 19? From
the page it looks like it might not have taken off the ground, is this
the case?

-Chris

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:51 +0100, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:20, Simon Striker wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have just installed Gentoo on my laptop and I am very satisfied with
> > it! I really like the portage feature and other Gentoo philosophy.
> >
> > At home and at "week-end house" I have a Linux server with Slackware
> > distribution installed. Now I am thinking of reinstalling my servers and
> > installing the Gentoo Linux on them, but I am a bit worried
> > because all packages in Portage tree are NOT up-to-date.
> >
> > I am using servers for: Mail-server, web-server, printer-share,
> > firewall, router, backup-server, webmail, mysql etc.
> >
> > I would like to know, how do you maintain your servers? Is it safe to
> > have Gantoo as a server?
> >
> > What do you think of putting all installed packages into
> > /etc/portage/packages.keywords (~x86) for server?
> >
> > I would like to make my Linux server "insensitive" for hackers or
> > intruders. Is it possible with Gentoo?
> >
> > I will be very gratefull to hear some of your opinion or exepriences.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> As a member of the Security Team and employee of a company using Gentoo on our
> servers I can say that we release fixes pretty fast.
>
> We'll most likely do a new survey of how well we're living up to policy
> timeframes very soon.
>
> Also we're currently working on GLEP 19 which might be of interest to you.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html
>