On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:02:57PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I attended a product briefing at Computer Associates on Thursday, and one of > the products that was discussed more than demonstrated was something called > eTrust Access Control[1], which, from my interpretation, sounds like it > achieves something similar to what SE Linux probably does. That's not really > the point of this email though. > > I asked one of the engineering types about their Linux support for this > product during one of the breaks. It can enforce a policy on Windows, a few > commercial Unix variants, and on "Linux". When I pressed the engineer on > what Linux distros were supported, it was just RedHat Enterprise Linux. > > He did mention that they'd looked into supporting Debian, but slammed the > lid back down on it after they had discovered (and I'm paraphrasing) > "multiple kernels with the same version number".
Seems like uninformed non-sense, but then maybe due to the previous messy situation. I think these guys are lying when speakign about linux support anyway, and only mean linux/x86 anyway. We provide the linux-headers apckage to make it as easy to build external modules against those kernels as possible, so it should be no real problem. I agree that the pre-2.6.12 situation was messy, but the new common infrastructure should be no major problem for those guys. Friendly, Svne Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
