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Re: Should selinux be standard?



On Sunday 14 September 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default.
> On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM,
> installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with
> heavy swapping) or possibly even more.  This is a major regression
> from the installer experience of etch.  A bug about this problem was
> filed about 3 weeks ago (#495786) but there was no response from the
> maintainer at all.
>
> Is selinux actually used much in Debian and should it be standard?
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/

Did I not read about a slimmed down selinux like function that had been
added to the kernel recently specifically for embedded systems.  I would
have throught that this would be more relevant to the NSLU2.

David


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