playing with grsecurity | a brief tutorial

June 4th, 2011

This howto is intended for those looking for better means to secure the Linux kernel, and the userland by the means of a powerful and simple role based access control policy. Contents What is grsecurity? Setting up grsecurity + gentoo in a VM The real thing: Grsecurity Getting familiar with gradm Generating the policy Fixing [...]

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what compiz does to your desktop

April 30th, 2011

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Managing Your Gentoo ["Sort-Of" Easily], Tips, and More

September 21st, 2009

***This article has been placed under constant expansion. So keep a check on it!*** Law #1: If anyone tells you that, “To administer a Gentoo Build is easy”, tell him/her to go f*** off. Ofcourse, if your an expert at it, then it’ll be an exception for you. Yes, it really is easy if you [...]

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Sabayon fOuR oH

June 16th, 2009

Based on Gentoo, Sabayon 4.1, tells me: Great performance with less RAM(though you need like 1GB RAM for it to work well enough). Package Management System is absolutely fantastic, with it’s new “Entropy”. Totally the perfect distribution. A fine distribution for the newbie or the expert. This is what a critic would say: Definitely better [...]

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