Romain BERGE (19.02.2009 14:06): > Thanks for info. > > I am wondering of video driver. > > Does hardened work with binary driver ? > As all know, supplier as Intel, nVidia and AMD/ATI provides mostly > binary driver. > > Should choose a laptop build with an AMD/ATI GPU using the open-source > radeonhd driver ?
I hadn't had luck with proprietary ATI drivers under hardened profile, but radeonhd is quite stable now and works well even for 3d hardware acceleration. > Thanks > > 2009/2/17, Marcel Meyer <[email protected]>: >> Hi list, hello Dale, >> >> Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 schrieb Dale Pontius: >>> Just a side comment on this... I have scripts that figure out where the >>> heck I am when networking comes up, and based on that decide what, if >>> any, service(s) to bring up. When the current network is on "other", NO >>> services are started at all - even X is started with "-tcp nolisten" so >>> there are no open ports. Scratch that - dnsmasq is listening on >>> loopback, but that's it. >>> >>> Maybe it's not all that's necessary, but it's a good first line of >>> defense. >> these little helpers are surely the ones which distinguish a nicely secured >> system from a good secured one (given all other loopholes are treaten like >> that). So are there perhaps plans in collecting some of them (or even just >> settings etc.) is a hardened-settings / hardened-tools / etc. package? >> Wouldn't that be a nice addition to the overall hardened-offer from gentoo? >> >> >> Marcel >> > > > -- SATtva | security & privacy consulting www.vladmiller.info | www.pgpru.com
