Just another heads up for the list. I found another distro that seems to be a very good distro that will accompany your distro armaments. The distribution is called Engarde Secure Linux. This distro aims or was engineered to be hardened and secure yet at the same time already complete with every network service that you want to deploy it as (mail, dns, firewall, IDS, etc..) yet the services are disabled by default and is managed via a web interface.
According to its website: EnGarde Secure Linux is an open source server environment designed to be
secure by default and easy to administer. EnGarde Secure Linux is built from the ground up to provide maximum security for tasks like serving dynamic websites, providing high-availability mail and database services and many others.
To me, Engarde Secure Linux seems to be a install, configure, and deploy system yet you do not have to spend too much time in configuring and focus more on what you want to deploy, how you want it to perform then deploy immediately and securely. I have started to download the installer and will take this for a spin. This might be a quick solution to some of my deployment woes (in terms of turn out and response times). Although nothing beats deploying and configuring Linux yourself to do what you want it to do, however specially in a critical enterprise environment that you are providing support and solution, Engarde might just be a pretty good tool for a blitzkrieg Linux-based service deployment with little fuss, plus it is OpenSource. http://www.engardelinux.org Screenshots: http://www.engardelinux.org/modules/index/screenshots.cgi Feature list: http://www.engardelinux.org/modules/index/features.cgi What makes it secure: http://www.engardelinux.org/doc/other/wmes/wmes.html -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, sybase.public.ase.linux
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