I for one used Trusted Debian / Adamantix before Hardened Gentoo. It was a distro of choice based on Debian and promoted SSP and PaX-enabled kernels. The main problem was, that it practically remained a one man project, led by Peter Busser. After some time - probably due to the lack of enough resources - it became slowly out of date. Until it was officially admitted, that it wasn't recommended to install it on a server.
Long before this I had already switched to Hardened Gentoo. I would say, that although there are some other security related Linux projets, Hardened Gentoo is definitely alive. I don't know what is the current situation regarding Owl Linux, or for example LIDS. And there were also some other distros like Immunix and Trustix... I think Hardened Gentoo install is not substantially more complicated to install compared to a regular Gentoo install nowdays. It would be the recommended first distro for a newbie. If there would be some popular commodity Gentoo-based distros, it would be hard to convert them to hardened. There's for example Ututo. But it's not popular enough. What I'm currently missing as a Grsecurity user is a lack of reference policy out-of-the box. SELinux is the best from this point of view. But it's not easy to accomodate a user specific change. Moreover, a regular user wouldn't want to tweak around to craft his own RBAC policy. I wish Hardened Gentoo will live long. Gentoo turned out to be a viable base for a hardened solution - instead of a binary distro. Thanks for all effort of the developers. Dw. -- dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057 2012.Június 8.(P) 21:40 időpontban Kevin Chadwick ezt írta: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:06:37 +0300 > Alex Efros wrote: > >> Actually, I see no reasons to NOT use hardened on desktops. > > Maybe many more would if there was an easy and quick to install and > maintain compiled distro. More users more compatibility too, I'd guess. > > Not suggesting there should be, just stating a reality. > > Anyone know why hardened debian and was it adamantix died off? >
