Owl aka Openwall linux.

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: Owl aka Openwall linux.
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.

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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