SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 14:31:48 UTC 2008


Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed January 16 2008, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 
>> Dan you are taking this the wrong way. Of course SElinux is great, of
>> course it prevents from 0day exploits, no body is challenging that.
>> But what was the real threat to average desktop users? Has anybody
>> made use of this 0day exploit threat? is there a linux virus in the
>> wild that spread like wildfire that took down r all desktops that didn't
>> use SELinux?
> 
> The desktop users are the threat, e.g. in internet cafes or computer pools in 
> universities or libraries.
> 
> Regards,
> Till
> 

Also for internet caffes I believe that Ubuntu with LTS is much viable 
option that fedora with it's too short life cycle.

Valent.




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