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  • From: "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] new user - some questions on installing/security/grsecurity
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:45:37 +0800

hi, folks! I'm currently in the process of looking for a source-based
distro to base my new system on, and am in the process of evaluating
SMGL. I am currently consider SMGL because of the support (as far as i
can tell from http://www.sourcemage.org/Gentoo) for grsecurity.

I am looking to install this on an AMD64, and have some questions:

first of all, the docs on the site seem to be, well... pretty
outdated. Even the 'AMD 64 Status' doc is dated 2005-07-15! A lot of
the other docs are as well, dated around that same date (which is so
sad). So i'm hoping to get a little bit of an update from the list -
is AMD64 now supported? http://www.sourcemage.org/Gentoo mentions
"archspecs" (which i dunno what they are) for AMD64, but the
http://www.sourcemage.org/node/1315 report makes me uncertain.

In the meantime, I have also taken a look at the mirrors, and are
confused as well. Some mirrors have only the x86(i486).iso.bz2, while
others (like the Lunar Linux mirror) have an 'x86_64' directory under
the 'iso' directory as well, containing a few isos (which one should I
use, if any??), and a chroot as well. Then
http://www.sourcemage.org/node/1315 mentions a 0.9.4 test iso as well.
Where is that? Another thing is filenames and directory structures are
inconsistent across mirrors - how can i be sure that i've gotten the
correct iso?

Lastly (and most importantly), could u guys tell me about the support
for grsecurity as mentioned in the comparison against gentoo? How good
(or complete) is the support for grsec? Do u have a hardened toolchain
(with SSP and PIE) as well?

thanks,
-jf


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