TuskenTower on 5 Oct 2007 17:44:00 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] What list is this again?

  • From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] What list is this again?
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:43:56 -0400
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On 10/5/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday 05 October 2007 12:03:28 Chad Waters wrote:
> > When I get a chance I want to figure out
> > the newly added AppArmor, (the alternative to NSA's selinux championed
> > by Novell/SUSE).
> >
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Apparmor
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor
>
> I recently attended a Novell/Suse dog and pony show where Novell claimed that
> it was behind the development of AppArmor, claiming that SELinux was too
> tough to configure.

Immunix, a company that built a Linux distro with a modified GCC
compiler that stopped stack smashing first created AppArmor and then
Novell bought them.  So they are behind the development of crAppArmor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunix

Amul
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