Yeah, the security features are prominent in the TalkingPoints: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/TalkingPoints --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Dawid Gajownik wrote: > Hi! > > I've been reading recently lwn.net and I've found this article → > http://lwn.net/Articles/160380/ I knew about this patch restricting > acces to /dev/mem but I did not know that it prevents rootkits! IMHO > this should be mentioned in the Release Notes: > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test1-latest-en/#sn-security > > Actually, there should be more hype about Fedora's security features¹. > For instance, FC5 uses Stack Smashing Protector. I think that it's worth > mentioning it in the Announcement of Fedora Core 5². Information about > updated KDE, Gnome, kernel, etc. will not encourage users to change the > distribution. I know that it's also important, but only cool new > features may change their decisions :) Without it we will see more > Fedora's reviews similar to this: "The wallpaper is the same. Nothing to > see here, move along." ;) > > ¹ Yes, I know about SELinux, but why not to tell people about other > technologies? > ² > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00064.html > > Regards, > Dawid > -- > > ^_* > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
