Owl aka Openwall linux.

[Nigel Sollars]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Looks interesting.  Only x86 binaries are provided.  Wonder if this could be
> gotten to work on an Alpha.  I still have a spare multia lying around here doing
> nothing.

Speaking of which .. if anyone has any or knows of any Alpha kit could u
please let me know ... I have 2 comming from the UK 21064 and a 21264 both
work with Linux i have the Alpha release of slackware ready for when they
get here.

Regards

Nigel

> 
> Troy wrote:
> > 
> >   This is for all your oldschool linux kids who enjoy security..
> > Solar Designer, the guy who writes the openwall kernel patches for linux
> > has been working on a new distro of linux called Owl (Openwall linux).
> > 
> > The neat thing that seperates this from other linux flavors is that it has
> > BSD-like make buildworld and make installworld built in,  either from CVS,
> > binary package or source.  It also has RPM support for redhat RPM's and is
> > security minded.  Its definatly a 'from-scratch' distro as it doesnt come
> > with 7 thousand CD's of extra things. :)
> > 
> > Just though I would mention it.  I have it running it at home and it
> > defiantly kicks ass for server related things.
> > 
> > www.openwall.com
> > 
> > Troy Moniz
> > 
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