[Fedora] Re: FC1 stable, FC2 ... you wish.

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:27, Andy Green wrote:
> OTOH there is this increasingly obvious tension between what an actual 
> community project might do and motivations driven by servicing Enterprise 
> (eg, the focus on selinux?)

SELinux is not just for enterprises.  If you are the least bit concerned
about malicious code/data exploiting flaws in your browser, mail client,
irc client, etc, then you might want to consider SELinux.  See
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevitability/ and
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/ottawa01/index.html.

SELinux is also not just in Fedora; the kernel code is in the mainline
kernel, SELinux userland packages exist for Debian, Hardened Gentoo has
integrated SELinux, SuSE Linux 9.1 has a SELinux kernel and utilities
(but SELinux is disabled by default).  And then there is SEBSD, the port
to FreeBSD 5.
 
-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency