[NTLUG:Discuss] LAMP on Slackware ?

[terry]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tom Tumelty <tomtumelty at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am building a LAMP application and at least at first planning to build it
> on Slackware 12.2. I am wondering if Ubuntu would be any more secure since
> it has apparmor turned on by default as I understand it.
>
> Does anyone know of Apparmor or something simular for Slackware ? I have
> read that SELinux is much more complex.
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
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I don't really have any real first hand knowledge or experience, but
there's  selinux and I think it can be installed on a Slackware system
but probably not all that easy, (it's made for Fedora / RH, not
Slackware), so I don't  know if I would even trust a home brewed
implementation of selinux on Slackware.

Wikipedia has some sketchy info on apparmor :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparmor

Wikipedia has  more detailed info about selinux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux

... I heard that Novel was migrating to the selinux framework - (but
not sure how accurate that info is - may be just a rumor) - I also
heard that apparmor's lead developer left Novel and went to MS and so
it might be that apparmor lost some steam for a time, not sure how
accurate that one is either but it may not have made any difference -
apparmor, I'm told, is pretty nice.

So I would say that if you want or need apparmor or selinux, Slackware
may not be the best distro for you.
/IMO

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