Secure Linux Distro

Tim Weaver Tim.Weaver@visitalk.com
Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:41:00 -0700


As a newbie, why would Debian be better than RH (and derivative) distros re:
security?

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Bill Warner [mailto:wwarner@direct-alliance.com] 
Sent:	Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:56 AM
To:	plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject:	Re: Secure Linux Distro

All that being said Jean is a security expert and knows what to look for.
If
you would like a good starting point for good security OpenBSD is a good
start.  If you must have/want Linux then Debian would be my next suggestion.
So
if your not a security expert like Mr. Francois is, you would probably want
to use one of the above as a better starting point than Mandrake or RedHat.

Just my $0.02
Bill Warner

"J.L.Francois" wrote:

> It seems like on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:15:15PM -0700, The Wolf
scribbled:
> Orig Msg> I have been using Mandrake for quite some time.
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> But since they have been pronounced the easiest
> Orig Msg> distro to break into I would like to know what
> Orig Msg> would be the hardest dirstro to break in.
> Orig Msg>