Trusted Debian v1.0 Released

Peter Busser writes "The Trusted Debian project releases its first official release, v1.0. Its main focus is solving most (but unlikely all) buffer overflow problems. It features PaX, a kernel patch which does several things. It tries to keep code and data apart, it randomizes stack, code, heap and shared libraries, it does strict mprotect() checking and it also protects the kernel. Trusted Debian also uses the stack protector patch for GCC developed by Hiroaki Etoh at IBM, which adds overflow checks to C/C++ code. It also features FreeS/WAN and RSBAC, an extensive access control framework. More information is available from the website. There is also a demonstration available for the special capabilities of this release."

Comments

Re:It's official. Abortion is murder!

[NFNNMIDATA]

Come on, she was almost due. Aren't 3rd trimester abortions already illegal? Even reasonable people who disagree on when life begins will agree that a child's life was taken in this case. Although IIRC there have been a lot of cases where they would bring a double murder charge for killers of women fairly early in a pregnancy... Perhaps your theory has some merit after all. Or maybe I'm just remembering TV lawyer shows.

Re:No Remote...

[dodgyville]

The problem with Linux is that a lot of the time it just exists solely as opposition to Windows. To me, success for Linux will come when people start talking about Windows in terms of Linux. Linux will never be able to set the agenda if people keep comparing it to Windows. It should be that Windows is compared to Linux.

(rant)
I understand that Windows might have more marketshare than Linux, but let's face it, Linux is BIGGER than Windows in every other way ... bigger in ideas, freedom, innovation and support. Linux (and OSS) is almost like a Bill of Rights in a way.

Linux as the default, and everything else discussed in those terms (and please, no mentions of BSD ... don't you know its DYING?).
(/rant)

So to say that we can't call an existing linux product something because some future windows product might use the term is just a very conservative and reactive (rather than proactive) attitude.