Security question

greg252

Any known security issues with YellowDog Linux?
I have an older g3 mac and was looking to turn it into a nix server.

yagonna

If you are going to install a *nix OS, then you should give FreeBSD a chance.

frymaster

i run my webserver on yellowdog (9600/233) and it is definitely no worse than redhat (9 - not fedora)

obviously you'll want to stick with the latest version (3.0.1) and ensure you yum up all the updates. there's a good erratta listing on terrasoft's site - not as spiffy as rhn but still very functional.

the only concern you may have is that yellowdog seems to want to turn atalkd on by default. i'd suggest chkconfig-ing it off unless you really need apple talk.

dalecosp

Originally posted by yagonna
If you are going to install a *nix OS, then you should give FreeBSD a chance.

All well & good; Free is, IMHO, the best of the BSD's. However: He's talking about an Apple Macintosh G3, and AFAIK, the PowerPC port of FBSD is only up to the point of booting single user. Not too useful for a server, eh?

Granted, it's been that way nearly two years. The page date is July of 2002; however, if we had it that far, I'm pretty sure it would say so. /usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.powerpc for 5.2 (Jan 2004) has stuff like:

#Temporary stuff since we're still embryonic
NO_MODULES?=TRUE

etc....

If you want a *BSD on a G3 Mac, it had better be Net or Open, I'd think ... I believe both of them have working ports to the PPC platform.

Of course, to look at it another way: OS X is FreeBSD; well, FreeBSD based. Just install OS X, then put Apache on it and go, or perhaps OpenDarwin would run on it ....

As for greg's ??, I'm afraid I don't know ... wouldn't the YellowDog site and lists be a good place to look? Also, there's mitre.org, securityfocus.com, sans.org, etc....