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  Security focused operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hardened Gentoo is a subproject of the Gentoo Linux project.
Hardened Gentoo offers a ProPolice protected and Position Independent Executable base using the exact same package tree as Gentoo.
The Hardened Gentoo project is an extremely modular project, and also provides subprojects to integrate other intrusion-detection and Mandatory access control systems into Gentoo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Security_focused_operating_system   (718 words)

  
 gentoo weekly newsletter
Gentoo Linux 1.4 was released on the first day of the expo, and 300 CDs were given away in the first 4 hours of the show.
Gentoo Linux on PPC was represented with both a Mac G3 and an iBook.
Gentoo Documentation Project looking for new lead Dutch translator ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our current lead Dutch translator, Sven Vermeulen, is resigning in order to concentrate on his responsibilities as Operational Manager for the Gentoo Documentation project; we'd like to thank Sven for his contribution to the Dutch team.
www.icetalk.com /gentoo-weekly-newsletter-N909.html   (855 words)

  
 Gentoo Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
There's no need to wait several months for a "new version" of Gentoo Linux to be released because Gentoo Linux is continually updated and refined and these improvements are immediately made available to you.
Of course, we do roll up official CD releases of Gentoo Linux so that new Gentoo Linux installs are as up-to-date as possible from the start.
newcastlecomputer.com /com/gentoo.htm   (513 words)

  
 Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
Even though his team is already larger than the entire Gentoo Linux PPC developer group, they still train new devs almost daily, and whoever wants to help with the project is very welcome to get in touch.
Gentoo Security ================== rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon ------------------------------------------ Under specific conditions, the rsync daemon is vulnerable to a directory traversal allowing to write files outside a sync module.
Gentoo International ======================= UK: Gentoo Meet-Up Looking for Organizing Committee Gentoo developer Stuart Herbert[34] is seeking volunteers who would be willing to organize a meeting for UK-based Gentoo developers and users in September or early October 2004.
article.gmane.org /gmane.linux.gentoo.weekly-news/80   (1358 words)

  
 Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
For Hardened Gentoo they cause real problems and must to be fixed to avoid compromising the overall strategy.
For the moment it's not really relevant outside of Hardened Gentoo, however it's quite possible that standard Linux may support some kind of executable stack protection in the future once the venerable x86 architecture gives way to NX-enabled systems.
As far as normal Gentoo is concerned, I think policy should be to fix textrels at least where it is simple to do so and upstream are happy to have the issues fixed, and we should be most insistent for shared libraries that are actually used as libraries shared between applications.
article.gmane.org /gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/34037   (1291 words)

  
 Gentoo Description - SBLUG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Gentoo development model was extended with a complete project-based approach where each project develops independently but cooperatively with other Gentoo projects.
The Gentoo Foundation has been created to provide financial caretaking, juridical protection and oversee general Gentoo development to keep it in line with the Social Contract.
Gentoo still continues to grow, evolve and improve itself - new projects are added, new developers are joining, new packages are added every day.
wiki.sblug.org /Gentoo_Description   (874 words)

  
 Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Introduction to Hardened Gentoo
This guide is meant for anyone unsure about the offerings of the Hardened Gentoo project, how to use them together, and what their respective roles in the project are.
Hardened Gentoo is not a product or solution in itself, it is merely a project with a group of developers all working toward the same goal of very proactive security.
The sub-projects contained in Hardened Gentoo aren't related in any more way than they are hosted within the same project.
www.gentoo.org /proj/en/hardened/primer.xml   (1238 words)

  
 propolice.txt
Gentoo states this patch for Glibc is to correct static linking problems with some software, and was aided by OpenBSD developers.
The Gentoo Glibc method might be the more secure stable choice, feedback and research is needed.
Gentoo's newest hardened-gcc depends on gcc-config (another Gentoo script), and Python.
www.linuxfromscratch.org /pipermail/hints/2004-January/002309.html   (2008 words)

  
 Eric's Blob
Gentoo has some really interesting features that make it really nice to work with.
This article here gets into some of the positive aspects of Gentoo: "Gentoo for all the Unusual Reasons" http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7438 The two biggest downsides someone would see to Gentoo on the server are: * Newer (possibly less tested) packages * Required to compile any package you want to install Of course, both of those are issues.
Hardened Gentoo has a lot of security tools available to it, including memory and buffer overrun protections, as well as things like SELinux.
openthought.org /blosxom.cgi/2005/04/04   (655 words)

  
 jogja.linux.or.id - Gentoo 2006.0
Gentoo Linux 2006.0, the first release in the 2006 series, represents improvements across many architectures since the 2005.1 release.
The Hardened team is pleased to release both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel targeted stages for the x86 platform.
Gentoo Linux is a community-driven project committed to producing a high-quality open source distribution; more information regarding this release, such as detailed release notes will be available on the Gentoo Release Engineering team’s project page.
jogja.linux.or.id /berita/arsip/2006/02/28/gentoo-20060   (626 words)

  
 LWN: Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 23
The biggest one is Hardened Gentoo, which Joshua himself started a few months ago and now boasts five active developers and the official SELinux play machine mentioned earlier in the newsletter.
Heat was mentioned as an important issue due to Gentoo's propensity to stress the CPU while compiling for extended periods on sometimes indadaquately cooled laptops.
Gentoo International ======================= Italian Gentoo Propaganda Machines Roundup Enrico Morelli, initiator of Gentoo Linux Italia[39], has recently closed the unofficial forum he maintained on a university server in favour of inviting everyone to join the official Italian forum[40].
lwn.net /Articles/35506   (2728 words)

  
 Debian SbD: External Links
Hardened Gentoo is a subproject of Gentoo Linux which adds many security enhancements to Gentoo.
The features originally used for this project were the features available in Hardened Gentoo which the original author of DSbD chose to use on his home systems.
These guys are working on a hardened Debian kernel as well, with various patches in it; D:SbD currently hosts their apt repository for mutual benefit.
d-sbd.alioth.debian.org /www/?page=links   (363 words)

  
 LXer: Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 27 September 2004
As it stands now, the Gentoo Hardened subproject does not have the manpower to do everything at once, so every bit of support, especially with bug hunting and fixing is wanted.
Gentoo International ======================= Italy: Impressions from Linux World Expò - The Gechi LWE movie The Gechi (Gentoo Channel Italia) activists have veni to the Linux World Expo (Milano edition), and have both vidi and vici...
http://www.freesmug.org/video/gechi Germany: Gentoo PPC developer meeting update Both Belgians on the Gentoo PPC team, Pieter van den Abeele (pvdabeel) and Jochen Maes (SeJo), have announced their presence at the GentooPPC developer meeting[32] scheduled for Thursday this week, 30 September, bringing the number of participants to double digits (from almost as many different countries).
lxer.com /module/newswire/view/23119/index.html   (2041 words)

  
 Gentoo Linux -- Gentoo Linux News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Entering its fourth year of publication, this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter shows what's to be expected from next month's Gentoo presence at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, and calls for Lithuanian translators to help with the Gentoo documentation.
The Gentoo Summer Camp organizers have a forum of their own, a Gentoo-based home media center and KDE dot news being hosted on a Gentoo server, some security announcements and the usual bugzilla statistics conclude this edition.
Updates on the Gentoo Handbook, KDE guides, and also the move of the bootstrapping and system-emerge steps to the Gentoo FAQ are just a few of the many changes made since the last status update.
wwwredesign.gentoo.org   (949 words)

  
 LXer: What Linux distribution do you use as a desktop? Gentoo
Gentoo, like any source based distribution gives you the ability to change your compile optimisatins.
Gentoo may be more difficult at first, but the documentation and community make it easy.
I wish that Gentoo would take the same measures of download integrity confirmation that Adamantix has done...with everything being cryptographically signed and of course having md5sums on it as well.
lxer.com /module/newswire/view/54414/index.html   (1052 words)

  
 Gentoo Dokumentationsressourcen @ gentoo.de
Gentoo Developer Handbook ¹: This is the Gentoo Developer Handbook, a continuing effort to centralize development policies across Gentoo and to also outline Gentoo's development systems and procedures.
Translators Howto for Gentoo Documentation ¹: A frequently asked question is how to become a translator and what actions should be performed both to become one and to act as one.
Gentoo Metadoc XML Guide ¹: This guide informs developers how to use the Metadoc XML format that allows the Gentoo Documentation Project to keep its documentation in a hierarchical manner and allow more information to be stored about each document.
www.gentoo.de /doc/de/?catid=project   (977 words)

  
 Linuxhelp > Gentoo 2004.0 Released
Mar 2 2004, 11:37 AM Through a little bit of confusion, Gentoo 2004.0 was released yesterday, in what people joked as the biggest version number inflation since Slackware.
I have read a lot about Gentoo, but from a person who feels fairly comfortable with Linux (fairly being the operative word here of course) it looks like a MAJOR pain in the butt to install.
Well, I will admit, there is a bit of effort involved to getting Gentoo off the ground, but after you get the major stuff compiled (that being KDE and X), it is smooth sailing from there.
www.linuxhelp.net /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2869.html   (1343 words)

  
 WebmasterFree - Gentoo Linux
We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else whatever you need it to be.
And because of this, experienced Gentoo users dont pay too much attention to new versions of Gentoo Linux after all, the latest and greatest version of Gentoo Linux is always available by typing an emerge sync command.
www.webmasterfree.com /software/SystemUtilities/MiscUtilities/gentoo_linux.html   (464 words)

  
 Techzonez - Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures.
Additionally, the Gentoo Hardened team is announcing the inaugural release of a security-enhanced Gentoo platform for the x86 architecture.
More information about the Gentoo Hardened project can be found on its project page.
www.techzonez.com /print.php?id=7587   (104 words)

  
 Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Installing Gentoo - The Developers Method - Stage1 and NPTL
Currently Gentoo 2005.1 is stable and if your after every ounce of bleeding edge performance from the x86 architecture you've found the right install tutorial.
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure was a lesson that has some of the greatest collective agility in the industry.
Gentoo has defaulted to 2.6 kernel livecd's which are just what we require for this installation.
forums.gentoo.org /viewtopic.php?t=189250&highlight=udev   (6684 words)

  
 gmane.linux.gentoo.embedded
I found some documentation, but either I did not understand the part about getting data from kernel space into user space, or it was just simply missing.
CRUX is optimized for i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment.
I'm using Gentoo with a Soekris board and I'm trying to get a CompactFlash WIFI card working.
blog.gmane.org /gmane.linux.gentoo.embedded   (985 words)

  
 wits end with fglrx and X (gentoo) - Rage3D Discussion Area
I am running (hardened) gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r6, gcc 3.3.3-r6 ati drivers 3.9 (latest ones i think?).
I think I said this in your Gentoo forums thread, but I can't remember seeing a clear solution to this type of problem before.
The problem with libbitmap.a is that gcc was compiled with "hardened" - you need to emerge gcc with "-hardened" and then X with "-hardened"
www.rage3d.com /board/showthread.php?t=33766560   (682 words)

  
 Debian Hardened project status.
Currently, the project is in a mature state of development with many things already done and also a lot of testing of the work.
These GCC packages can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/debianhardened until i get an available machine for host an apt repository (at the moment, the installation of the packages by downloading each-one from SF.net is an XXX-pain).
I have hardened also the binutils, and some of./net packages: - rinetd (some work for make it able to be chroot'ed as unprivileged user) - openssh (i'm working on the patches that bring SecurID Token use features, and others from independent hackers) - wu-ftpd, just added the stuff from WU-FTPD guys.
www.webservertalk.com /message409410.html   (1338 words)

  
 SECURITY Debugging with Hardened Gentoo - Gentoo Linux Wiki
This doesn't work with recent gentoo hardened systems.
This guide will run through how to debug programs that are proving difficult.
This page was last modified 06:32, 23 March 2006.
gentoo-wiki.com /SECURITY_Debugging_with_Hardened_Gentoo   (225 words)

  
 PCBurn - Gentoo Linux 2004.0 on Shelves Now
It looks as if Gentoo has finally come out with their new release (as opposed to the rolling 1.4 series).
From: Sven Vermeulen To: pr-AT-lwn.net Subject: Press Release: Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:45:27 +0100 For immediate publication: Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures.
Gentoo Linux official IRC channels -- ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
pcburn.com /article.php?&sid=241   (425 words)

  
 Gentoo Development Weblogs - Category: Gentoo
Gentoo is the only distro out there that fully supports all three types of installs.
Hardened support has improved on ppc and ppc64 saw the first hardened profile.
I'd also like to thank all those that work on the ppc32 and ppc64 kernels as 2005 saw support for quite a bit of new hardware and without them it would not be possible.
planet.gentoo.org /developers/all?cat=17   (942 words)

  
 Debian SbD: Position Independent Executables
This method is now being examined for Hardened Gentoo, and would allow a single gcc to function as both a hardened and non-hardened compiler.
It is a design decision for the Debian developers to tackle whether they would have the default behavior of gcc to have PIE and/or SSP on or off by default in the presence of multiple specs.
Thanks go to the Hardened Gentoo devs for that bit of data; I'd previously assumed that this optimization did nothing when I compared performance.
d-sbd.alioth.debian.org /www/?page=pax_pie   (1191 words)

  
 Life according to Corey » Blog Archive » Pegasos for Hardened proj.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I just finished reinstalling one of the Pegasus Open Desktop Workstations and The Gentoo Hardened project now has access to one that was donated to the Open Source Lab last week.
Hearing some of the directions Genesi is heading with these, hardened can be a great benefit (specifically thinking of mysql[1] servers[2]).
This entry was posted on Friday, June 10th, 2005 at 11:45 pm and is filed under Gentoo, Open Source Lab.
staff.osuosl.org /~cshields/?p=80   (241 words)

  
 Life according to Corey » Blog Archive » Howto: hardened loghost with Splunk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Using the hardened stage tarballs, you will have a system build with position independent code.
Building these utilities within the hardened gentoo system gives you the benefits of the hardened toolchain (extra security patches, like PIC mentioned above).
This entry was posted on Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 8:06 pm and is filed under Linux, Gentoo, Open Source Lab, General Computing, Splunk.
staff.osuosl.org /~cshields/?p=157   (1251 words)

  
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Hardened Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/index.xml Gentoo Hardened team is announcing the inaugural release of a security-enhanced Gentoo platform for the x86 architecture.
Alexander is the lead for the gcc-hardened project, which has the goal of implementing security enhancements such as PIE (position independent executables) and PaX address space randomization and stack protection.
In addition, he is exploring work with the HPPA team on implementing Gentoo for pa-risc processors as well as adding user documentation for Hardened Gentoo.
www.cs.wright.edu /~pmateti/Linux/secureLinux.html   (2519 words)

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