It's official: SELinux is now available in the Ubuntu development ('Hardy Heron') distribution. "This is the result of the amazing work of the ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams, as well as the huge contributions from the folks at Tresys (SELinux will not be the default, but is available as a security option)." In other news, Sun has started offering Ubuntu as an option.
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Member since:2005-07-06
SELinux in Fedora already covers desktop quite well including programs like HAL. In Fedora 9, Xorg will have a SELinux framework and browser integration is being developed too.
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/15700.html#cutid1
Member since:2005-07-24
My impression is that SELinux is not the sort of thing that you can throw into the repository and say "Hey! Now we have SELinux!". It's taken Fedora 7 releases, and 4 years to get it to where it is now in their distros. (And it still needs some work or we wouldn't still see so many "discussions" about whether its reasonable to turn it off.) Even the most optimistic among us would not try to argue that it was ready before FC6, which would make it 5 releases and 3 years.
Frankly, I'd like to see SELinux/Fedora go head to head with AppArmor/Ubuntu and see which one comes out on top in real world competition. IMO, too many are ready to summarily declare SELinux the victor.
Edited 2008-03-20 14:24 UTC
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2005-07-06
even though im a fedora user id like to see it get more testing and adoption.
ubuntu aims for desktop users so it will be interesting to see how they use it. fedoras targeted policy works well for servers. maybe ubuntu folks will focus on things like browser integration or desktop.