On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, "Morel B?renger" wrote: > Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a ?crit : > > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > >> I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't > >> really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. > >> (Gentoo isn't a prime example of a secure Linux system, I more point > >> to the concept of having a "hardened" base available, whihc Debian > >> doesn't really offer.) Debian's known for being incredibly STABLE and > >> high quality, and embraces FOSS standards pretty well. > >> > >> But unless Debian is bundling an alternate base system built around > >> stuff like Tomoyo, GrSecurity, PaX, or SELinux and starts loading up > >> their packages with hardened patchsets I wouldn't boast about it being a > >> "security-focused" distro. > >> > >> > >> The backports are an excellent thing. And the Debian security team > >> does an excellent job. Lets just be realistic and a little more honest > >> and say Debian is "one of the most secure" but I can't call it "THE most > >> secure" unless the system can go hardened readily. > >> > > > > Good point. And when you start talking security to the point of serious > > testing and configuration control, I believe there are very few > > distributions that are on the DoD approved product list. > > > > On the BSD side, OpenBSD (despite the name), focuses on security, and > > has a pretty good reputation for being pretty secure. > > > > Miles Fidelman > > I'm a newbie about kernels, but I have read (and maybe misunderstood) > which stated the bsd kernel was more secure. So, if you use the kfreebsd > kernel on a Debian, is it closer to that hardened security? > It is a real question, sorry for the OT, but I am just taking the occasion > to learn a bit about differences between those kernels. > Has anyone looked at grml yet? > >
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