hardened *nix for Lenovo X60

Kyle Maxwell kylem at xwell.org
Mon Aug 26 08:21:58 PDT 2013


This is pretty much OpenBSD's bread and butter.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> I've managed to lay my hands onb a couple of Lenovo X60's that are
> in pretty good shape and would like to use them as a moderately secure
> communication/development system. (I'm not trusting my desktops,
> servers or mobile devices for obvious reasons). I'm loath to modify
> the hardware at this point, so I expect to only flash coreboot
> upon it.
>
> What kind of security-minded Linux or *BSD would you guys
> recommend? Liberte looks a bit too stable (cough, sorry Максим)),
> Kali is more for security h4x0rs. Anything else what is well-maintained
> yet borderline secure from *untargeted* TLA-level scrutiny?
>
> I'm okay with text-mostly distros, or minimalistic window
> managers. It shouldn't be a kitchensink of stuff I don't need,
> but on the other hand it's shouldn't be so secure it's
> unusable, either.
>
> Pointers to any HOWTOs or SOPs highly welcome. Tanks & machine guns.



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