Last Update: 2007/07/17  
... by administrators for administrators

What is Secure-SLinux?

Secure-SLinux is a secure, stable and full-featured OS for professional enterprise servers. Secure-Slinux is based on the Linux kernel and GNU glibc as well as GRSecurity and PAX.

Advantages

  • robust: Secure-SLinux is based on linux-2.4.34.4, binutils-2.16.1, gcc-3.4.6 and glibc-2.3.6 which is known to be one of the most rock solid combinations
  • secure: Secure-SLinux is compiled as a hardened OS with GRSecurity, PAX, SSP and frandom and comes with many security related packages
  • slim: Secure-SLinux contains everything you need and no more
  • easy: Nevertheless it is straight forward to use and administrate Secure-SLinux

    Secure-SLinux is...
  • open source
  • cost effective
  • suitable for all professional enterprise servers, workstations and as a base for embedded systems
    ... and it is installed in just 10 minutes!

    Note: We have now moved to use kernel 2.4 since the 2.6 series of kernels still undergoes a lot of change and is not as stable as the 2.4 series of kernels.

    Uses

  • application servers, database servers, backup servers
  • firewalls, bastion hosts, routers, gateways, caches, proxies
  • embedded systems

    Mail your experiences with Secure-SLinux to: info AT secure-slinux DOT org!

    Latest news:

  • 2007/07/17: Secure-SLinux Desktop V1.0.0pre2 released.
    SSLX-Desktop 1.0.0 is based only on the best programs available for linux such as XFCE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Filezilla, Gimp, OpenOffice, Eclipse, Bluefish and Xfe - the X File Explorer.

  • 2007/07/17: Secure-SLinux Server V1.0.0pre2 released.
    SSLX-Server V1.0.0pre2 offers kernels both with and without GRSecurity. USB-Utils have been added and SSLX-Server has been reconfigured to match SSLX-Desktop.

  • 2007/06/07: Secure-SLinux Server V1.0.0pre1 is released.
    SSLX-Server V1.0.0 is based on linux-2.4.34.4, binutils-2.16.1, gcc-3.4.6 and glibc-2.3.6 - which is known to be one of the most rock solid combinations. Together with GRSecurity, PAX, SSP and frandom, SSLX-Server is now among the most secure linux distributions available for commercial and private use. Nevertheless it is straight forward to use and administrate. SSLX-Server is the ideal Linux distribution for enterprise servers, databases, firewalls as well as workstations.

  • 2007/06/07: SSLX-Server V0.3.1stable has been downloaded more than 1100 times!
    Since its release in August 2006, SSLX-Server has been downloaded more than 1100 times. Most popular was our SSLX-CD - the Secure-SLinux installation, rescue, live and demo cd.



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