Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, a vanilla Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since such a 'vanilla' stage3 would have quite recent software, making it more likely that recently discovered security holes have already been patched. For this reason I think gentoo is a good cantidate for 'most secure distro', the point already having been made that such a distinction is basically meaningless. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Joseph wrote: Cast your vote! Of the most popular DESKTOP Linux distro's (2007 Top List) , which is the most secure? http://www.linuxsecurity.com/component/option,com_poll/task,results/id,34/ Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, not which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation (I know there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. Any application can open any port to the wind and especially with a poor security policy has the potential to expose the box to an attack. More so than a binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent configuration to be secure. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!
Hello Mick, Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, not which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation (I know there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. Any application can open any port to the wind and especially with a poor security policy has the potential to expose the box to an attack. More so than a binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent configuration to be secure. On the other hand, a vanilla Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are. -- Neil Bothwick Bother said Rue, as his paranoia spread across the publicly accessible archives signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro Gentoo UP - Cast your vote!
On Saturday 01 September 2007 00:52:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Mick, On the other hand, a vanilla Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are. Well the question does include DESKTOP Linux distro that should go as far as X11 with a Window Manager, but heck any good sysadmin can make any distro secure. So your right, these polls just cause in fighing. -- Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas # Free Open Source Software Advocate # KDE Developer: gamaral $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
