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Apache/2.0.55 (Trustix Secure Linux/Linux) PHP/4.4.2 Server at www.trustix.net Port 80

WOW! Now that is secure.

At least you can reach this site, which looks awfully commercial-style with no community.

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Apache/2.0.55 (Trustix Secure Linux/Linux) PHP/4.4.2 Server at www.trustix.net Port 80

WOW! Now that is secure.

At least you can reach this site, which looks awfully commercial-style with no community.

http://www.trustix.net/

EXCELLENT suggestion. I just did the same thing for several Winders boxen with Trustix on an old Packard Bell turd with a WinChip C6. Runs great except I'm still figuring out XP's permissions... (yuk)

Your Mileage May Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

haha! thanks, but Im sticking with Windows

Fair enough, if it works for you.

I tried to look into linux a bit, but didnt/dont really have the time. At this point, if its not building on something I already know, there are other things I need to be doing. One thing I was disappointed with was not being able to use it on an old machine. I mean, when the base install is over 1gb, that kind of excludes using an old 486 w/ 250mb hd.

Many of the latest distros are certainly bloated, no argument about that. Then again, you wouldn't expect to be able to install this year's or even last year's version of Windows on a '486.

That '486 should work just fine with some of the special purpose distros floating around - like floppyfw or TSL.

Google for md5sum and weep at the results (I don't mean the manpage 8-). For example, here is a supposedly secure Linux distribution, and here is their SRPMs directory with the MD5SUM file in it. [I don't mean to diss Trustix, they're just one out of thousands of examples for this practice.]

Google for md5sum and weep at the results (I don't mean the manpage 8-). For example, here is a supposedly secure Linux distribution, and here is their SRPMs directory with the MD5SUM file in it. [I don't mean to diss Trustix, they're just one out of thousands of examples for this practice.]

Google for md5sum and weep at the results (I don't mean the manpage 8-). For example, here is a supposedly secure Linux distribution, and here is their SRPMs directory with the MD5SUM file in it. [I don't mean to diss Trustix, they're just one out of thousands of examples for this practice.]

feel I should note, of all the vaunted Debian based commercial distributions (Stormix, Corel, Progeny) Libranet is the only one left.
I do believe trustix is based on Debian. And it is a commercial distribution.

Or, for that matter, this...

Trustix Secure Linux

Engarde Linux

Immunix (seem to ship a secured Red Hat)

Kaladix Linux

Can't say if they are any good, I'm afraid. I'm too happy running Debian!

-- shaka

Yeah, but your heap is still fair game. Immunix isn't as good a solution as a well-designed secure distro, like Trustix.

Many people don't really understand what DivX is. There's the DivX ;-) codec, which was a hack of the Microsoft MPG4V3 codec. This allows you to stick MPEG 4 inside AVI files - the MS version only lets you do WMVs and suchlike. There's also the OpenDivX project over at Project Mayo. This is an opensource, cross-platform effort, and hopefully will Take Over The World (tm).

I've been looking into streaming MPEG 4 video off a Linux server and it's still rather immature. FFMpeg looks like it might be getting there, but I quote from the FAQ: "New developments broke ffserver, so don't expect it to work correctly. It is planned to fix it ASAP."

It would be nice to find a good OpenSource (pref. Linux) solution for streaming MPEG 4 content (from a Video4Linux BTTV device). Does anyone know of one?

Now the problem is that Caldera and most other distros automatically leave all services on.

Disclaimer: I work for Trustix, so I'm obviously biased and completely untrustworthy. :)

This is exactly one of the reasons why we made Trustix Secure Linux.

The most obvious changes compared to a normal distribution are: remove all cleartext services if a secure alternative is available (telnet/r* vs openssh), include secure configuration defaults for services, don't run any network services by default and only include the packages that you need on a server.

For those interested, the full mission statement is here
Mailinglists available here
Distribution available here

Now the problem is that Caldera and most other distros automatically leave all services on.

Disclaimer: I work for Trustix, so I'm obviously biased and completely untrustworthy. :)

This is exactly one of the reasons why we made Trustix Secure Linux.

The most obvious changes compared to a normal distribution are: remove all cleartext services if a secure alternative is available (telnet/r* vs openssh), include secure configuration defaults for services, don't run any network services by default and only include the packages that you need on a server.

For those interested, the full mission statement is here
Mailinglists available here
Distribution available here

Now the problem is that Caldera and most other distros automatically leave all services on.

Disclaimer: I work for Trustix, so I'm obviously biased and completely untrustworthy. :)

This is exactly one of the reasons why we made Trustix Secure Linux.

The most obvious changes compared to a normal distribution are: remove all cleartext services if a secure alternative is available (telnet/r* vs openssh), include secure configuration defaults for services, don't run any network services by default and only include the packages that you need on a server.

For those interested, the full mission statement is here
Mailinglists available here
Distribution available here

I'd look at a distribution called Trustix. This sounds like what your looking for.