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On 1/22/07, Eric Bohn <bsee_1991@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with running Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you apparently do in a secure govt environment. There's probably a federal directive or regulation somewhere that prevents machines being run in govt organizations from using non-standard or officially unapproved technology and/or procedures, and for good reason... |
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I know of many universities, not only from Brazil, but around the |
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world, that use Gentoo. There are many security features in portage, |
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and I believe Gentoo servers and mirrors have some security also, else |
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it would be too easy to compromise thousands of installations around |
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the world, and no cracker would miss this opportunity. |
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Non-standard and officially unapproved technology sounds more like |
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"put someone in control of all tech used in the public sector of IT", |
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more like antitrust than standardizing. |
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> I've had Portage hose my Gentoo install twice before to the point that I could no longer run Portage, and I run stable, not testing. Using Portage you're putting yourself at the mercy of any Joe Schmoe with a proxy connection to a Gentoo server that wants to compromise your machine. Even most commercial organizations, for job critical computing, have administrators that establish mirror servers for software testing prior to internal distribution. |
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As I mentioned before, I don't think we are at the mercy of any |
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cracker around by using Gentoo. Of course some level of security would |
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be needed, any OS requires that, but lets not hijack this thread, as |
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the OP was talking about DESKTOP installations. |
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> It didn't sound like the OP was intending for anyone to do sys admin tasks with Gentoo either, I imagine that could prove to be risky using any Linux distro. |
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Yeah, that's one more reason for a Gentoo install. And just for the |
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record, ANY OS needs sys admin tasks once in a while, if not for |
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initial install, because of breakage, and believe me, I had my quota |
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of breakage before using Gentoo. |
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