SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 21:28:52 UTC 2008


On Jan 16, 2008 10:16 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 1:57 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I believe that SELinux is a great linux server security hardening tool
> > but that has little use in desktop linux usage and it confuses
> > ordinary desktop users.
> > If it hasn't been discussed before I would like to propose that on
> > desktop cd spin SELinux is not installed by default, of course after
> > discussion and approval from you (fedora devels).
>
> About how many people would you all estimate even use Fedora as desktop?
>
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few hundred thousands? Don't know... look at fedora statistics page
and judge for yourself...

And I bet that more will choose ubuntu as a "friendlier" desktop if
fedora forces people to use SELinux.

Valent.

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