Why Fedora ?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Nov 2 16:52:30 UTC 2005


Tim wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:23 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
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>>Or perhaps the much too frequent updates to SELinux that have been
>>known to break machines as well (leading to many people disabling
>>SELinux to avoid having their systems rendered unusable randomly by
>>system updates).
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>Although I personally feel that SELinux is the wrong way to fix things
>(like firewalls to protect you from bad software, instead of improving
>the software), I have it running to see how it goes. 
>
Improving the software itself is not orthogonal to adding a additional 
layer of protection like SELinux. Security works through layers.

regards
Rahul




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