[Klug-general] The most secure Linux laptop in the world

[Alan at COMM-TECH]

Check out Gentoo. You use emerge (a bit like apt/yum) to build your 
installation specifically around a particular task rather rather then 
remoulding an existing distro. Many distros run lots of eye-candy and 
default services that you probably don't need, the more services the 
more opportunities for vulnerabilities, Less phat = more secure. In theory..

For example use
nmap 127.0.0.1
and see what your running ;)

Alan
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With Gentoo you can create

Mike Evans wrote:
> Stephen Ryan wrote:
>> Hi Stephen, from near Hythe in Kent here. Just joined KLUG.
>>  
>> I am on a mission to find the most secure (yet functional) Linux 
>> distro in the world. It must have the tiniest of footprints.
>> I have played with Knoppix CD, but i want something much, much, 
>> smaller and something that even a novice can configure.
>> Smallest amount of code - just enough functionality.
>>
> There is such a thing as TinyLinux see tiny.seul.org/en/ How secure it 
> is I couldn't say.  Maybe you could take that and then take the SELinux 
> bits of the Fedora distro and bolt them in.  Naturally it would get 
> bigger - but probably not hugely so.  I think you can also get SELinux 
> directly, rather than working with the Fedora interpretation.
> 
> Mike
> 
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