SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 07:15:59 UTC 2008


James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 
>> I really love SELinux and it is a great tool, and it helps a lot of
>> admins who use it, but because it is still too rough for the general
>> public it should not be forced onto them.
>>
>> What is your target audience with SELinux?
> 
> The target audience is everyone.
> 
> What we are trying to do is make a fundamental change to computer security 
> by taking decades of research and making it useful in the general case.  
> We are shipping MAC as a standard, enabled-by-default feature of a general 
> purpose OS.  Welcome to the future, and thanks for being part of it.
> 
> 
> - James

"Welcome to the future." No thanks, I disable my SELinux and they use my 
fedora desktop comfortably.

Somebody would argu that  "Welcome to the future." would be more 
appropriate if fedora looked like future os. Don't get me wrong, I love 
using fedora. But to my mac and windows friends it looks like win98 :(
Also not enabling 3d bling by default doesn't help (some like that 
feature much more that SELinux just because it makes thing pretty).

Weclome to the social. Wow starts now. ect, etc...

Those are just a nonsense quotes as yours. I understand security. I also 
understand desktop usability.  I believe that SELinux it too raw for 
general purpose desktop. Give it a year or two to mature and maybe then.

Valent




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