Re: which distribution to choose

From: Bob Jones (lists_at_pavlodarproductions.com)
Date: 12/03/04

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    Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:36:48 -0600
To: Jochen Witte <jwitte@alpha-lab.net>, focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    I can only vouch for 2 distributions that are new and have good
    community support and updates. Fedora Core 3 (http://fedora.redhat.com)
    downloadable at
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/
    and Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition available at
    http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#10.1c. A good firewall package
    that works very well (at least it does for me on the 4 systems I
    administer) is Firestarter available at http://www.fs-security.com. For
    ipsec vpn serving, look at Freeswan at http://www.freeswan.org.

    Fedora Core 3 comes pre-configured to run SELinux in enforced mode (will
    deny access rather than just warn of a problem) for enhanced security.
    Both of these distributions can be setup with the apps you are seeking
    (apache/squid for proxy, iptables with or without the firestarter
    enhancements and interface, tripwire, openVPN/Freeswan) quite easily.
    Additionally, both distributions support both a manual and an automatic
    update system -- manually with up2date and automatic with the yum daemon
    for FC3 and either a manual or scripted/CRON'ed urmpi command for Mandrake.

    I understand that SuSE 9.2 Professional (about $90.00 US) also has the
    same features. Having never used SuSE since ver. 5 or so (2.0.x kernel
    series), I don't know how it compares to FC3 or Mandrake.

    Hope this helps,
    Bob J

    Jochen Witte wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I would like to set up a firewall to protect a small company network. What
    > I would like to have is some kind of VPN solution (OpenVPN and ipsec),
    > iptables firewalling and a secure distribution with some additional
    > sec-related sofware (tripwire etc.). Also I need to run an Apache for
    > proxy-requests.
    >
    > My question is, which distribution to choose for such a
    > setup. I would prefer a standard distribution for easy updates and
    > community support. A specific "security-enhanced" distribution would do it
    > also, if it is not too "pure" :)
    >
    > Any suggestions?
    >
    > Regards
    > Jochen
    >
    >
    >

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