Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?
On Monday 11 August 2003 22:01, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing > the big bad internet?! > > * gs-sources > "This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be > up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising > stability we add server related performance patches. [...] In other > words, these sources are perfect for servers and High-Availability > systems." > > * hardened-sources > "Hardened Gentoo's purpose is to make Gentoo viable for high security, > high stability production server environments. The kernel provides > [...] stability/security oriented patches." > > * wolk-sources > It has been pointed out by Kurt Lieber that Gentoo is "in the process > of converting all of Gentoo's infrastructure servers over to WOLK > 4.3". If that is so, why isn't Gentoo "eating it's own dogfood" > (gs-sources) or replacing gs-sources with wolk-sources if WOLK is > /that/ superior?! > > Any hints or meanings deeply appreciated! > > > Thorsten Personally, I'm running most of the servers on vanilla kernel + GRSecurity patch applied and ACL's enabled, while some other servers running WOLK-4.6s now. Generally, I would say go for vanilla kernel with GRSecurity or SELinux, but in case you want some special features and do not want to spend your time on patching kernel - go with WOLK (also contains GRSecurity). Mikhail. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Windows and DOS -- a turtle and it's shell. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?
Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources "This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising stability we add server related performance patches. [...] In other words, these sources are perfect for servers and High-Availability systems." * hardened-sources "Hardened Gentoo's purpose is to make Gentoo viable for high security, high stability production server environments. The kernel provides [...] stability/security oriented patches." * wolk-sources It has been pointed out by Kurt Lieber that Gentoo is "in the process of converting all of Gentoo's infrastructure servers over to WOLK 4.3". If that is so, why isn't Gentoo "eating it's own dogfood" (gs-sources) or replacing gs-sources with wolk-sources if WOLK is /that/ superior?! Any hints or meanings deeply appreciated! Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Normally, I would say hardened-sources, however it's quite a bit behind in kernel world. It's still in 2.4.20, which had some nasty security flaws, and I wouldn't trust it too much. I'm running a Gentoo-Hardened machine with SELinux (my router), so naturally I'm using the somewhat vanilla selinux-sources. For a server, gs or wolk would do. WOLK has a LOT of patches in it, some of which you might not want, so you'd need to know what to ditch at configure time. GSS is used on the LiveCD and is quite stable. After all this talk, I'd say it's a toss-up between GSS and WOLK. On Monday 11 August 2003 06:01 pm, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing > the big bad internet?! > > * gs-sources > "This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be > up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising > stability we add server related performance patches. [...] In other > words, these sources are perfect for servers and High-Availability > systems." > > * hardened-sources > "Hardened Gentoo's purpose is to make Gentoo viable for high security, > high stability production server environments. The kernel provides > [...] stability/security oriented patches." > > * wolk-sources > It has been pointed out by Kurt Lieber that Gentoo is "in the process > of converting all of Gentoo's infrastructure servers over to WOLK > 4.3". If that is so, why isn't Gentoo "eating it's own dogfood" > (gs-sources) or replacing gs-sources with wolk-sources if WOLK is > /that/ superior?! > > Any hints or meanings deeply appreciated! > > > Thorsten > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- Bryan D. Stine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/OBgA4Cdq/Vbot6MRAm5wAKCMR0cc9mQNE64YkPogkAsNBolwfgCeOBUN ejnIg1WPsD/yt2yWw9KUsCs= =0NSt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
