For example, ones that implement these guidelines? https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html
Alternatively, packages for Fedora that would set this up automatically
For example, ones that implement these guidelines? https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html
Alternatively, packages for Fedora that would set this up automatically
You can even mix and match it H/SELinux with musl (and Clang, if you’re up for some masochism and performance boost), though it does require patching sometimes. From my experience, you can find patches from Alpine’s Aports and that should fix it ~90% of the time, but sometimes you’d need to write your own. Another tip in case you’re interested in trying musl on Gentoo is that there’s a compilation flag for large file support documented in Gentoo Wiki’s musl development page which fixes compilation failures caused by calls to functions with names ending in 64 (e.g. fseek64). This is yet another massive source of compilation failure in musl. Lastly, you should mask musl versions ≥ 1.2.4 if you want to have any semblance of a * good time with it.
Oh good to know! Thanks for the tips. What do you like about musl over glibc?
To be honest, I only use it for fun. Unless you enjoy tinkering like I do, or you have really low RAM, there’s no reason to use it over glibc. I’m aware that Madaidan also mentioned that it is more secure, but I’m not too knowledgeable on that so I can’t really comment.
Ah gotcha, just asking because I’ve never used it before. Good to know that Gentoo supports hardening it
Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.
Yep! Gotta love the flexibility of it
Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).
Totally, props on taking it on as your first distro! Haha, yeah a week of pain sounds about right. My last Gentoo setup took an entire month (off and on), but I was doing something crazy (Qubes-like, every application in its own Gentoo VM, strict SELinux on host and guests)… ended up ditching that because I got comfortable enough with SELinux to write stronger policies for everything important, which is good enough for me.
I had the benefit of using other distros before trying Gentoo, so my first attempt at it wasn’t so bad (but still took two full days). It’s definitely taught me way more than any other distro, including Arch (although Arch was a very good stepping stone). I don’t think I could go back to anything else at this point
What a coincidence, I’m trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?