Debian Hardened Aims For Security 167
larryg writes "Debian Hardened is a new project that wants be an official Debian sub-project. It aims to provide a complete tree of hardened kernel and software packages for a standard Debian distribution, without changing to another like Adamantix and making easy the hardening of any machine running Debian GNU/Linux. The hardened kernels use the grSecurity patch and some of the Adamantix kernel patches; also, its packages are compiled with the ProPolice/SSP gcc extension and some libraries to prevent and trace buffer overflow attacks. Also, and as a second project, we are working on some enhacements against the Linux Entropy Pool engine, using an external TRNG (True Random Numbers Generator) device which uses thermal noise and also the atomic decay from a Geiger counter, making true unpredictable random numbers."
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
What about Windows? (Score:2, Funny)
Debian could use that as a spam headline! (Score:5, Funny)
New pickup line for geeks... (Score:5, Funny)
wtf? Hey moderators.... (Score:3, Funny)
Hard3n y0ur Debian/w0ody t0day!
That was funny. C'mon, laugh.
Re:New pickup line for geeks... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Question: Stability? (Score:1, Funny)
I swear some people just make it too easy
Heh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They'd need more drastic changes (Score:1, Funny)
as *if*! (Score:5, Funny)
but seriously... as a debian user, i fully condone harder, faster, and stronger debians.
Oh really? (Score:1, Funny)
So Debian made harder is news
So many the installer abused
It's hard enough as it is
Much like taking a quiz
I wish I could apt-get "ease of use."
Re:harden what?? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not that this is like Fark or anything, but (Score:2, Funny)
I call mine "Sarge".
My distro, I mean.
Re:Debian could use that as a spam headline! (Score:3, Funny)
A giant corperation is tracking your every click!.
We can solve all your problems with compatibility, heck you don't even need x86 anymore and what's more it's free FREE FREE!
Linux advocates sound like really crazy late night sales people.