Purpose
Secure-SLinux provides a secure, stable and slim OS for professional enterprise servers. Secure-Slinux is based on the Linux kernel and GNU glibc.
Advantages
Secure-SLinux uses technologies which hardens the OS - i.e. make it immune to attacks. The technologies used include SSP protection, PAX and grsecurity, secure random number generation, blowfish passwords, encrypted root partition, firewalls, strict access control and other means of securing the OS.
While there are other hardened Linux distributions, Secure-Slinux differs in that it still tries to be as managable as an ordinary Linux distribution.
Secure-SLinux only installs the minimum amount of programs needed for a fully working server. "Fully working" means the ability to boot, login and recompile itself, as well as raid, encryption of harddisks, lvm/evms, filesystems, sshd, cronjobs and all the administrative tools which administrators expect in a professional environment. You will not normally need to install anything else than your applications! However you will not have the choice between ten different (unneeded) editors...
Secure-SLinux is configured to be secure! A firewall protects your server and only sshd is activated. By default everything is disabled unless you activate it yourself.
Secure-SLinux is quick to install! As a bare minimum you only need to unpack the tar.bz2 archive and configure the bootloader. Usually you will also have to configure the keyboard, clock, server name and the network. All in all if you know what you are doing - it is possible to install a fully functional Secure-SLinux server in less than 5 Minutes!
All configuration is done using Unix native text configuration files. This means that you have full control over your server - even if you are only connected via a text-only ssh connection. All installed packages behave as expected according to the programmers documentation. No need to learn the distribution's way of doing it!
Secure-SLinux is small compared to main stream distributions. By removing unnecessary packages, you can make it even small enough to make it fit on embedded systems. The package management used helps you in finding out how to optimise your OS!
Secure-SLinux is based on Linux From Scratch (particularly HLFS/BLFS). As a result there is a lot of documentation! Secure-SLinux is compliant with File Hierachy System and mostly with Linux Standard Base.
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