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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running a hardened profile?
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:53:27
Message-Id: loom.20150906T224713-108@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile? by walt
1 walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo
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6 > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop everything
7 > and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything from scratch.
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9 Blueness has some interesting builds that might be worth taking for
10 a test drive before you commit to hardened? Read up on them
11 to ensure they meet your needs, if you do not have a second, older
12 computer to install on and test. [1]
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15 > But I have a feeling I'd soon be in big trouble if I did. Is this
16 > something that only gentoo devs should be messing with, or is this
17 > a project that a typical gentoo end-user might hope to accomplish
18 > without frequent suicidal thoughts?
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20 Scary thoughts..... I keep old systems around to test things out
21 first. ymmv.
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23 Also Pentoo (by dev zerochaos) has an installer and is hardened.n [2]
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25 James
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28 [1] http://releases.freeharbor.net/
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30 [2] http://www.pentoo.ch/download/