On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:28:40AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, as a user of the year-old Fedora Core 1, that has just been declared > "legacy", I'm anxiously waiting until the end of next month when Fedora > Core 3 should be out and I can upgrade. > Today I decided to prepare myself and look at what will be new in FC3. > > One of the more drastic changes in FC3 will be that SELinux, the NSA's > "Security-Enhanced Linux" patches, will be enabled by default. I was > wondering how that will effect my life (or at least my computing life).
LWN just wrote an article about FC3. LWN subscribers: http://lwn.net/Articles/103261/ . Non-subscribers: it should become avilable in 8 days (thus I wanted to add it for the sake of later archive readers). Some of the points: 1. FC3 includes udev. Another new technology to read about and a potential source of migration issues. 2. The installation defaults to set the filesystem with LVM, rather htan plain partitions 3. Something regarding SELinux: Fedora Core 3 marks the Fedora team's second stab at SELinux, and they are asking[0] that users give SELinux another try as well. According to Colin Walters, this release marks a scaled-back approach that should cause fewer problems while still providing additional security for "select system daemons." Instead of the original "strict" policy which covered everything, a new "targeted" policy has been developed which only applies SELinux restrictions to a few select system daemons. Regular user login sessions are unrestricted. [0] http://lwn.net/Articles/103233/ -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]