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Romain BERGE wrote: |
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> Hey list, |
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> I am planning buying a laptop. I would like to install a hardened |
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> (workstation) profile on it. |
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> Which hardware features/components should I take care of ? (to be the |
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> most compatible with hardened) In the opposite, are there some |
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> hardware components/brand to avoid ? |
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> Thanks |
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Went through a similar exercise a few years ago; concluded that one: |
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- first chooses the laptop that meets his needs (I wanted a 2 pounder |
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with good screen and graphics to carry about in a back pack, with |
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frequent stops at hotspots) |
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- second googles about for linux success/failure stories about that |
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laptop. Gentoo has some great documentation and explanations concerning |
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Linux; Ubuntu has some great user lists regarding specific hardware. My |
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Sony was 95% Linux good to go, with detailed Ubuntu discussions about |
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xorg.conf. |
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- third if it works on Linux, it'll likely work for hardened. (this was |
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true for 32bit on my laptop; 64 may be different; I'll know shortly ) |
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FWIW, IMHO a hardened profile, along with other precautions, makes a |
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lot of sense on a laptop as there is all sorts of mischief occurring at |
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anonymous, college and Saturday-afternoon hotspots - some of it quite |
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sophisticated due to "pen test" software. It's a wild west that you'll |
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not experience on your firewalled desktop. |
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HTH |
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