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  • From: "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] new user - some questions on installing/security/grsecurity
  • Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:55:20 +0200

On 19:49:21 2007-04-07 "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok. I hope i'm not making things too difficult for u guys here, but
> one last (hopefully) question... Which install guide should i refer to
> then for installing my system? There's quite a few floating around the
> wiki, actually:
> - off the front page of the wiki, there are 2 - one called "Install
> Source Mage" (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Install_Source_Mage), and
> another called "Install from an ISO, with hints for low RAM machines"
> (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Install_from_an_ISO%2C_with_hints_for_low_RAM_machines%21)

> - and then there's even the "InstallFromISO" page
> (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/InstallFromISO), which I suppose, is the
> one referenced by the "low RAM" article mentioned above (even though
> the link is wrong)
>

The one that references silver thistle if any... else bug ppl that did it
to write one ;)

> Pardon me if this sounds kinda dumb, or even silly, but if u want to,
> just treat me like i'm being the Devil's Advocate right now (which, in
> a sense, i am) and take it like i'm contributing to the distro
> already, by pointing out such confusions where the docs are
> concerned....
>

Well we lack on docs but irc://irc.freenode.net/#sourcemage is a helpfull
place so come and you should get answors to most of your questions :)

> And btw, it would be nice to explain the concept of the Grimoire as
> well - i found that the faq item
> (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/FaqGrimoire) didnt really answer that for
> me... Instead, i found this entry -
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Grimoire - to be much better for me.
> Perhaps that should be linked to somewhere from the faq entry?
>

A grimoire is a collection of spells(like debian repositories a collection
of packages)
> And btw (sorry :)), how's the progress on the hardened Grimoire
> (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Hardened_Grimoire)?
>

DEAD totaly and completly no work has happened in years... As there was
little to no interset among the developers to maintain it. That's how we
work basicaly. And to point out it was only libselinux stuff that acctually
did anything there afaik.

As for your glibc needing support for ssp etc... I must say I already seen
the ssp in effect with no extra patches... Some fvwm module I tried loading
triggered the ssp and it refused to run. It's probably something in glibc
as well but it's probably integrated upstream(running glibc 2.4 or 2.5 here
:) )

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