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