Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:10:30 -0700 Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be > > considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed > > it has to be the most secure. Also worth pointing out is since s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-01 Thread Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas
On Saturday 01 September 2007 00:52:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Mick, > > On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be considered a > bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the > most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are. We

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, > Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, > not which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation > (I know there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. > Any application can open any port to the wind and especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Lets push our disttro "Gentoo" UP - Cast your vote!

2007-09-01 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Joseph wrote: > Cast your vote! > > Of the most popular DESKTOP Linux distro's (2007 Top List) , which is > the most secure? > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/component/option,com_poll/task,results/id,34/ Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure di