EnGarde Secure Linux v2 Out

Chuck writes "I came across EnGarde Secure Linux about two years ago when it was first released, and I see they just released the newest version. Improved Mandatory Access Control using LIDS, awesome web-based manager, code from the Openwall Project and winner of the Network Computing Hardened Linux product of the year. I love EnGarde."

Commercial?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thoght EnGarde was strictly commercial nowadays?? No?

Advertising shmadvertising...

[CoolVibe]

Guess this is one of those slashdot sponsored "advertisement" advertising stories huh?

Anyway, LIDS is great. Played with it, and deemed it cool. Now I wish FreeBSD had something that cool (since that's my main OS of choice), but LOMAC comes pretty close.

Heck, I just might give this a whirl on one of my testboxes...

We were considering implementing it

[Anonymous Coward]

until this happened: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_ad visory-3277.html [linuxsecurity.com].

Good stuff!

[sokkelih]

I hope these guys do some co-operation with thingies like OpenBSD. I would love to see outcome of that. Great!

Re:Advertising shmadvertising...

[BSDevil]

At least Chuck is a real [slashdot.org] user, unlike last time (I don't remember the exact story) where no one could find any record of the user in the database and his domain belonged to an advertising company.

Something Different

[Ween]

Offtopic, but along the same vein, I would like to find a distribution of linux or *bsd that provides out of the box support for virtual mail hosting (many domains, 1 ip), name based virtual hosting, and the like. All with a simple to use console configuration. I've built my own several times, but thats time consuming. Anyone got any suggestions?

Re:Advertising shmadvertising...

[caluml]

I prefer the GRSecurity patches [grsecurity.net] to LIDS. They contain a lot more than just ACLs.

Pricing.

[Qbertino]

What's this supposed to be?
Is this such a big fat hairy deal that you have to charge a minimum of 800$ for a "oh-so-extra-special-secure-Linux" distro?
Ok, if it's so easy to install that any Webdesigner could get it on right out of the box I say ok, let them Dreamweavers pay the price if they're to cheap for hiring a sysadmin to their team.
But I seriously doupt that this one pulls the trick better than a securepatched SuSE, Debian or OpenBSD.
Does anybody have solid expierience with this distro and can they testify that its bizar retail price is justified?