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no common distro is stripped down and tight by default. some are worse
then others.
performance is the same among different distros so don't worry about that
(unless one distro tries to force you to run X to manage it, never a great
idea on a firewall)
3-5 are very much subjective.
I personally prefer slackware. it doesn't have the slick GUI that redhat
does and doesn't have the marketshare, but I find it much easier to lock
down.
Also for maintaining firewalls I prefer to watch security announcements
and when software that is running on the firewall has a bug discovered in
it I prefer to download the source and install the patch immediatly rather
then wait for someone to do the job and package it up as a RPM. With any
RPM based system if you ever do an upgrade without useing RPMs it breaks
the dependancy trace and future RPMs amy not work. Also the RPM dependancy
tree may cause you problems becouse if you install something that has an
optional X GUI the RPM will be fairly insistant about needing X installed
before it will install. you can override this, but at that point I
seriously question what advanatage you are getting from useing RPMs
David Lang
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:16:26 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: What is the best linux platform for security
>
> A general question that could lead to interesting things....
>
> If anyone here were able to start, from scratch, their own firewall,
> specifically designed on a Linux platform, what would you select as the
> flavour, taking into consideration the following requirements:
>
> 1) Security, something stripped-down and tight
> 2) Performance, as that is always an issue
> 3) Popularity, a flavor everyone likes
> 4) Future scope, something everyone will like for a long time to come
> 5) Flexibility and Ease, something easy to use and without limitations
>
> So if anyone here, had the power to do it, and do it right, what would be
> YOUR flavour?
>
> :)
>
>
>
> Daniel Duguay
> Systems Administrator
> Firewall and Secure Systems Development
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> * Fax: (613) 944-0044
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