Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: basile <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Cc: tinhat@××××××××××××××.edu
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat 20090404 is released
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:07:49
Message-Id: 49DB5E31.3050206@opensource.dyc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat 20090404 is released by Marcel Meyer
1 Marcel Meyer wrote:
2 > Hello basile et al.,
3 >
4 > Am Sonntag, 5. April 2009 schrieb basile:
5 >
6 >> This release addresses important updates from upstream Hardened Gentoo,
7 >> including updates to hardened-sources-2.6.28-r7 and
8 >> glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1. Approximately 130 other... packages were also
9 >> updated. Password hashing was switched form MD5 to SHA512. The build
10 >>
11 >
12 > so are you also already using a gcc 4.x?
13 >
14
15 Yes, 4.1.2
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 >> Tin Hat is now distributedvin full and slimmed down versions for both i686
20 >> and amd64 architectures.
21 >>
22 >
23 > Mmh, I wonder, if a slim Tin Hat would be suitable to be installed on a
24 > server system (at least as a base install :-) ), perhaps as DomU...
25 >
26 > Thanks for creating Tin Hat and keeping us up to date!
27 >
28 > Marcel
29 >
30
31 By June we should have three versions avaiable for both i686 and amd64
32
33 1) The present version with Gnome
34 2) An even more slimmed down version with Fluxbox, still for desktop
35 3) A server version with turnkey LAMP
36
37 All built with the hardened gentoo patches.
38
39 --
40
41 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
42 Chair of Information Technology
43 D'Youville College
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