[nflug] security tool based linux distro

[Mark Musone]

I don’t think he is asking for a secure linux. he's asking for linux as a
security tool.....

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
John Nichel
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:21 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] security tool based linux distro

Eric Benoit wrote:
> Sorry created a new thread for this..
> 
> 
> I was looking at the frozentech site and saw some pretty cool dist. some
> of which I was really interested in but am wondering from this group
> which dist. would some of you choose for a security tool based linux?
> Trinux looked like it had a lot of security tools... and you can ssh to it

A few years ago, I was in the camp that if it was Linux, and it had to 
be secure as secure can be, then Slackware was the only choice.  These 
days, I use Red Hat for everything.  Not that I think it's more secure 
than Slackware (or any other distro for that matter), but because the 
security of any *nix box lies more in the hands of the admin than it 
does the distro.  I choose Red Hat because I'm familiar with it (been 
using it since '96), and they are more reliable than a lot of the 
smaller distros when it comes to fixing patches.

-- 
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel at dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com
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