SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 22:41:19 UTC 2008


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 1:57 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I believe that SELinux is a great linux server security hardening tool
>> but that has little use in desktop linux usage and it confuses
>> ordinary desktop users.
>> If it hasn't been discussed before I would like to propose that on
>> desktop cd spin SELinux is not installed by default, of course after
>> discussion and approval from you (fedora devels).
> 
> About how many people would you all estimate even use Fedora as desktop?
> 
http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html

Take a good look at stats on form factor, runlevel, arch, and cpu.  Those give a 
pretty good estimation of usage, and the typical desktop machine appears to be 
by far the most common.

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