Owl aka Openwall linux.

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:50:48 -0700


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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