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I for one used Trusted Debian / Adamantix before Hardened Gentoo. |
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It was a distro of choice based on Debian and promoted SSP and PaX-enabled |
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kernels. |
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The main problem was, that it practically remained a one man project, led |
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by Peter Busser. After some time - probably due to the lack of enough |
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resources - it became slowly out of date. Until it was officially |
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admitted, that it wasn't recommended to install it on a server. |
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Long before this I had already switched to Hardened Gentoo. I would say, |
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that although there are some other security related Linux projets, |
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Hardened Gentoo is definitely alive. I don't know what is the current |
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situation regarding Owl Linux, or for example LIDS. And there were also |
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some other distros like Immunix and Trustix... |
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I think Hardened Gentoo install is not substantially more complicated to |
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install compared to a regular Gentoo install nowdays. It would be the |
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recommended first distro for a newbie. If there would be some popular |
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commodity Gentoo-based distros, it would be hard to convert them to |
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hardened. There's for example Ututo. But it's not popular enough. |
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What I'm currently missing as a Grsecurity user is a lack of reference |
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policy out-of-the box. SELinux is the best from this point of view. But |
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it's not easy to accomodate a user specific change. Moreover, a regular |
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user wouldn't want to tweak around to craft his own RBAC policy. |
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I wish Hardened Gentoo will live long. Gentoo turned out to be a viable |
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base for a hardened solution - instead of a binary distro. Thanks for all |
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effort of the developers. |
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Dw. |
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-- |
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dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 |
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Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057 |
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2012.Június 8.(P) 21:40 időpontban Kevin Chadwick ezt írta: |
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> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:06:37 +0300 |
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> Alex Efros wrote: |
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>> Actually, I see no reasons to NOT use hardened on desktops. |
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> Maybe many more would if there was an easy and quick to install and |
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> maintain compiled distro. More users more compatibility too, I'd guess. |
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> Not suggesting there should be, just stating a reality. |
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> Anyone know why hardened debian and was it adamantix died off? |
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