enGarde Secure Linux

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After reading the press release and the enGarde web site information, I was ready to dump CentOS and install engarde secure linux 3.0 on my experimental server. I even downloaded the LiveCD version and to try it out.

When I tried the LiveCD, I had login and password problems even though I had the activation key provided by their email registration process. I did finally get it to work somewhat but I had become uneasy about replacing my working system.

I read a couple of articles and found one on Linux Weekly that mirrored my login experience. The product really sounds nice and sould be great once the bugs are worked out. Maybe things will settle down soon with a bug fix edition. I'll be waiting.


LWN article: http://lwn.net/Articles/154522/

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EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.11 Release Notes
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Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure
Community 3.0.11 (Version 3.0, Release 11). This release includes
several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the SELinux policy and
several updated packages.

EnGarde Secure Community is a secure distribution of Linux engineered
from the ground-up to provide organizations with the level of security
required to create a corporate Web presence or even conduct e-business
on the Web. It can be used as a Web, DNS, e-mail, database, e-commerce,
and general Internet server where security is a primary concern.

The following reported bugs from bugs.engardelinux.org are fixed in
this release:

#0000109 Selinux stops ntpd from creating drift file
#0000111 selinux stops ntpq and ntpdc from access to ntpd
#0000112 ntpd cannot find time servers
#0000113 aide log filter wrong again (differently)

Other bugs are fixed in this release as well.

New features include:

* The latest stable versions of bind (9.3.2-P2), m4 (1.4.8), ntp
(4.2.2p4), openssh (4.5p1), php5 (5.2.0), postfix (2.3.4), rsync
(2.6.9), samba (3.0.23d), snort (2.6.1.1), squid (2.6.STABLE5),
and zaptel (1.2.11).