Re: OT: Linux
- From: infixum <ctrachte@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:26:16 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 19, 11:34 am, Belba Grubb <trungsister...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Back in May I posted a question about a "cookbook" guide to setting up
SELinux in Fedora 10. There weren't too many answers available and I
said I'd therefore have to write a few recipe cards myself.
Well, apparently they're up to Fedora 12 now, but I've got Fedora 11
installed and have not only gotten the basics (the *very* basics) of
SELinux going--you can do a lot with it through the GUI, i.e.,
Graphical User Interface, or what we think of in Windows as the
desktop and windows--I have also found the SELinux Users Guide online,
and have even gotten to run my Windows-based work software on the
Linux machine using VMWare's Workstation 7 (there is also Virtual Box,
but you have to be pretty smart to run that [this is code for "I
couldn't get it even to install"--BG]).
Anyway, I wrote a few "recipe cards," and in the off chance that
anyone here is actually interested (you scientists are probably doing
things with Linux that I couldn't even dream of!), they'll be online
through the end of the year at these links (it's a 3-part series, plus
an additional "coda" after the series' end):
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19033942/My-Linux-Adventure-Part-1-Introduc...
2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19076601/My-Linux-Adventure-Part-2-Choosing...
3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19733926/My-Linux-AdventurePart-3-Hacked-an...
Coda: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22218174/My-Linux-Adventure-Coda
For anyone who wants real information, the SELinux User Guide, which
is good but detailed, as anything should be that promises to bring you
up to an intermediate level of proficiency (no, I'm not there yet but
gaining on it), is at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f11/en-US/
The reason it's all about Fedora and not the other Linux distributions
is that AFAIK Fedora is the only distro outside of Red Hat Enterprise
that has the whole thing; there is a version of SELinux that (if
you're smart) you can install in later versions of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron
on upward, I think). I went with Fedora for that and other reasons (as
described in the essays).
There are some pretty advanced and adaptable distributions (yes, I'm
thinking of Gentoo), so advanced, that for all I know, those people
WRITE SELinux. Such distributions are for serious geeks, and I haven't
explored that end of the spectrum.
Barb
PS: Don't know if Jo is still here in this spam-laden place (sigh --
where's Hercules carrying a couple of navigable rivers when you need
him?), but if so, it sure would be nice to see some of her stuff (or
anyone else's) onhttp://www.scribd.com, either as a freebie or for
sale (my essays above are freebies through the end of the year).
Please let us know, anyone who is already there or decides to post
there, so we can check it out (doesn't cost a thing, BTW -- if you try
to sell something, which you don't have to do, Scribd let's you keep
10% more than Amazon does with its Kindle publishing; that's all, but
that's fun enough!).
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"We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which
people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of
civilization available to the whole human race."
-- Arnold Toynbee
Barb,
Thanks for the Linux links. I've bookmarked them.
I'm a FreeBSD and OpenBSD user myself, but I glean a lot from the
Linux end (the Desktop systems KDE and Gnome are essentially the same
on either system). Plus it's good to see how other geologists are
using software.
Carl T.
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