How best get rid of SELinux?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Sep 21 15:58:02 UTC 2007


On Friday 21 September 2007, Res wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> If SELinux was such an "terrific and compelling approach", upstream
>> Linux and other distros would have adopted it _years ago_ with standing
>> ovations - Fact is: Nobody did.
>> => This is developers and maintainers having doubts on SELinux.
>>
>> Ralf
>
>Well put. Most of us in charge of ISP's, OSP's etc, wont touch it,
>because it has given many people in many companies, in many places around
>the world, many headaches, which I guess is why most DC's I've known to
>run RH, have all but 1 dumped it in moves to either Slackware or Debian,
>and if the suggestion made by someone that Debian is going the same way,
>then they will see an exodus as well going by trends on whats discussed at
>BBQ's on Saturday afternoos, they need to remember, senior network
>managers/engineers from competing networks in same cities tend to all know
>each other, and we all have many get-togethers, it only takes one
>person to mention a problem with a certain bit of software, even if just
>as a passing comment, it tends to stay in our minds, we will never make
>more work for ourselves than we already have.
>
>
>--
>
>Cheers
>Res

And that is well said, Res.

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