[NTLUG:Discuss] LAMP on Slackware ?

[Tom Tumelty]

Yes I am wondering if another distro might be best too. Slack is my favorite
but I may have to go to Ubuntu. Than You for the information.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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