Hello Mick, > Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, > not which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation > (I know there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. > Any application can open any port to the wind and especially with a > poor security policy has the potential to expose the box to an attack. > More so than a binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent > configuration to be secure.
On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be considered a bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother" said Rue, as his paranoia spread across the publicly accessible archives
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