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walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo |
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> That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop everything |
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> and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything from scratch. |
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Blueness has some interesting builds that might be worth taking for |
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a test drive before you commit to hardened? Read up on them |
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to ensure they meet your needs, if you do not have a second, older |
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computer to install on and test. [1] |
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> But I have a feeling I'd soon be in big trouble if I did. Is this |
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> something that only gentoo devs should be messing with, or is this |
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> a project that a typical gentoo end-user might hope to accomplish |
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> without frequent suicidal thoughts? |
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Scary thoughts..... I keep old systems around to test things out |
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first. ymmv. |
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Also Pentoo (by dev zerochaos) has an installer and is hardened.n [2] |
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James |
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[1] http://releases.freeharbor.net/ |
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[2] http://www.pentoo.ch/download/ |