SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Wed Jan 16 21:13:55 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:00 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:57:56PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > I believe that SELinux is a great linux server security hardening tool
> > but that has little use in desktop linux usage and it confuses
> > ordinary desktop users.
> 
> Desktop users are the people it is most important for.  If it is still confusing
> people we need to fix the confusions. Perhaps you can explain more ?
> 
> 

We made one big mistake with SELinux, selinuxalert or whatever it is
called... we haven't learned from the MAC vs Windows ads... we now have
an app that puts us squarely into the Windows lack of usefulness camp.

"hey user this app is doing something bad. do you want to let it do
it?"_t.

Dave.





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