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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened laptop: am I nuts?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:59:05
Message-Id: 1196891813.13361.49.camel@hangover
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened laptop: am I nuts? by Ned Ludd
1 On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 16:46 -0800, Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:18 -0800, Grant wrote:
3 > > I installed a hardened profile on my new laptop and I'm having major
4 > > issues with apps like vmware, skype, wengo, and firefox-bin.
5 >
6 > The problems you say are major are actually pretty trivial.
7 > Search our mailing list most of those programs have been covered as
8 > well as the work-a-rounds before. hints: dmesg, paxctl, paxctl -C,
9 > $EDITOR,emerge -C, etc...
10 >
11 > > Is anyone else using a hardened desktop system with a hardened profile?
12 >
13 > Yes. Lots of us do..
14 >
15 > > Am I nuts?
16 >
17 > I'm not qualified to answer this question.
18
19 Perhaps yes.
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