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 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.
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, 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.
