Hi Russell,
--On Monday, April 12, 2004 11:46 PM +1000 Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora Core is going to be the base for future RHEL releases. Fedora Core 2 Test 2 is currently the best available distribution for SE Linux, it has an option in the GUI installer for installing SE Linux (default is "on" for this release, maybe something different for the next test release), and the policy supports all the most common tasks you will want to perform.
So far I've worked with SELinux under Debian Sid, Debian Woody, Gentoo, RHEL 3, and now FC2T2. Not being content with one toe in the water <g>, I'm already running two FC2T2 hosts and expect soon to have more--including several honeypots, as I'm a honeynet researcher.
Commenting as a disinterested party, I affirm that you're absolutely right in your high estimation of FC2T2's SELinux implementation. FC2T2 SELinux rocks, especially for those new to SELinux!
To achieve your goals of generally learning about Red Hat and SE Linux your best option is to just download some ISOs of FC2T2. There are no plans of integrating SE Linux into RHEL 3 as well as it is integrated into Fedora, and RHEL 4 will be longer than you want to wait.
Actually, in the case of RHEL 3, I was hoping to deploy, more than to learn. I obviously understand that the RHEL 3 packages that were once available are unsupported beta (alpha?) software. But, that's good enough for some of my purposes <g>.
Thanks for your recommendations!
Cheers,
--------------------------------------------------- Bill McCarty, Ph.D. Professor of Information Technology Azusa Pacific University
