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On Saturday 01 September 2007, Joseph wrote: |
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> Cast your vote! |
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> Of the most popular DESKTOP Linux distro's (2007 Top List) , which is |
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> the most secure? |
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> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/component/option,com_poll/task,results/id,34/ |
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Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, not |
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which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation (I know |
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there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. Any |
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application can open any port to the wind and especially with a poor security |
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policy has the potential to expose the box to an attack. More so than a |
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binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent configuration to be secure. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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