[nflug] security tool based linux distro

Eric Benoit ebenoit at hopevale.com
Thu Dec 8 10:14:52 EST 2005


Yes, sorry for the misunderstanding I am actually asking about the 
smaller distro's and just using the box for security tools ...I am 
familiar with some, but not all of the security tools I've seen listed 
with some distro's, so I am asking for a better opinion than of my self. 
  I hope that clears it.

Mark Musone wrote:
> 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.
> 
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