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.