On Thursday, December 09, 2010 11:39 PM, Tom H wrote:
SELinux came as a result that someone found weaknesses and wanted to try avoid security issues. Just like when firewalls began to become so popular 20-30 years ago or so. There was a need to improve something, and someone did the job. Nobody cared much about firewalls in the early 80's. Why? Maybe because nobody thought anyone would abuse or misuse the network infrastructure?
Does that mean you would not be comfortable moving your applications to SUSE, Solaris, OS X, Windows, etc.? I don't want that kind of lock-in.
SUSE has apparmor (which it considers equivalent/superior) but you probably can install selinux on it (you can on Ubuntu and Debian).
Solaris has Trusted Extensions for MAC and RBAC.
OS X has a Macified version of TrustedBSD.
Windows has UAC.
(In the same way that the last three have their own firewall apps!)
and FreeBSD has TrustedBSD on by default now.