[TriLUG] Debian vs Mandrake vs Redhat vs . . .

[Turnpike Man]

Speaking of freeswan... myself and another have been trying to get freeswan
running on red hat... which came with rpm even... apparently this is not
enough??  We had rh 7.3 on each end, basically RR here in NC(me) and in
TX(friend).  It is obviously not as easy as it appears or we just plain missed
something.

David

--- Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:07, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> > > I did look at Mandrake, but the 2
> > > machines I've tested it on so far where less reliable then the Debian 
> > > and
> > > redhat ones.
> > 
> > Not to diss 'drake but my experience with it has been like what you 
> > describe.  It's a darned good looking distro in its stock configuration 
> > but I wouldn't run it on a server.  Or even an important production 
> > desktop.
> 
> Chris and Joshua,
> 
> My experience has been exactly the opposite.  I've run Mandrake
> as my main mail/web server for over 4 years now.  I've never
> had a problem with it, and I've never been hacked <crosses finger> :-).
> Mandrake has excellent support for servers.  Urpmi allows easy
> updating.  Also, Mandrake was one of the very first distributions
> to integrate security features (first with Bastille, now with msec).
> They even include a "secure" kernel compiled with lots of things
> to deter hackers (it used to be the OpenWall patches, but I 
> think it's something new for 2.4... my favorite from the 7.x series was
> the patch that set permissions on /proc... it exhibited itself
> so that if you did a ps aux or a top, all you could see were your
> own processes, there was no access to someone else's processes).
> 
> So, I would strongly suggest you take another look at Mandrake.
> In addition, as Jon Carnes already mentioned, Mandrake has support
> for Freeswan out of the box.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner Lovelace
> -- 
> Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org>
> 
> 

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