Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-01 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On 03/01/2014 15:43, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Sunday, March 02, 2014 12:00:41 AM Volker Birk wrote: >> That makes some hope for the BSD world again. The good thing about Free >> Software is the alternatives. >> > Indeed. Though I think you vastly overestimate how many people even think > this

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On Jan 22, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Kevin Olbrich wrote: > > Okay but this missmatch does not automatically mean it is not working. > Can you check if the features are present? Maybe the patch is still > compatible with a newer kernel? > Hi Kevin, I installed the i386 architecture and installed th

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Kevin Olbrich wrote: > Wouldn't this mean there is an error message? The patch could work with a > newer kernel in general (?). > > I did not try it but are there so many changes between both releases? Hi Kevin, I just tried this an Debian with kernel 3.2.51 in a

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:01 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: >> It appears that this patch is available in the apt repos under the >> "kernel" section (sensibly enough) as: >> >> linux-patch-grsecurity2 >> >> Once it's downloaded, it patches the kernel in an automated fashion and >> doesn't for

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-19 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On 01/19/2014 04:06 PM, Kevin Olbrich wrote: I did not know about grsecurity. Thanks for the hint. After some quick browsing it seemed it works like the windows code execution protection. I will try to compile the kernel with this patch like you did. Linux is the most secure OS IMHO - distribu