Re: which distribution to choose

I personally would recommend either SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 
which offers both Common Criteria ELA3+ security certification, as well as 
many useful Carier Grade Linux 1.2 reliability and availability features. 
Amongst the CGL features that I find most valuable are the collection of 
watchdog timers.

SLES9 is soon to be CC EAL 4+ certified and has achieved CC ELA 5 
certification on IBM Z series mainframes.

Although the certifications are hardware specific you can achieve 
effectively the same level of security on comprable hardware platforms.

At 12/3/2004 03:02 AM, Jochen Witte wrote:
 >Hello,
 >
 >I would like to set up a firewall to protect a small company network. What
 >I would like to have is some kind of VPN solution (OpenVPN and ipsec),
 >iptables firewalling and a secure distribution with some additional
 >sec-related sofware (tripwire etc.). Also I need to run an Apache for
 >proxy-requests.
 >
 >My question is, which distribution to choose for such a
 >setup. I would prefer a standard distribution for easy updates and
 >community support. A specific "security-enhanced" distribution would do it
 >also, if it is not too "pure" :)
 >
 >Any suggestions?
 >
 >Regards
 >Jochen


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