On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:48:11AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 07/07/2010 02:42 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > I hate selinux with a passion. And (also) running Ubuntu that has no > > selinux is a joy for myself. > > I am not saying that it doesn't serve its intended purpose, but is it > > really necessary to be included in the Design Spin? I think not. > > Disabling SELinux on my desktop is one of the first things I do after a > fresh install, *but* I pretty much know what I am doing there, I would > *never* recommend that to a newbie or non-security conscious user (as > the designers are presumed to be). So we must have SELinux installed and > active by default. I wanted to correct a misconception about the statistics for SELinux. According to smolts.org[1], almost 70% of systems reporting to Smolt have SELinux enabled, and most of these have SELinux in enforcing mode. I think these changes are due to both the excellent maintenance of policy by Dan Walsh and others, and also more effective communication about the benefits of SELinux. * * * [1] http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
