Hardened Linux

Hardened Linux was a hardened and minimalized distribution developed by the Open Source Community. A huge part of the distribution is based on Slackware (tm) Linux. The project was created by Steffen who was also the project leader. The project ended on June, 26. 2008.

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It is designed to run on firewalls, routers, as IDS host, VPN gateway and authentication system.

It comes with a grsecurity hardened kernel, userspace hardening, hardened (and stack smashing protected) packages, a hardened file system and hardened configuration files.

The main goal of the distribution is to provide a very secure system everybody can use. Normaly lots of people aren't able to do real good hardening on their linux hosts because they possibly don't have the skills or the time (for patching kernels and packages, ...) to do that. They could simply use Hardened Linux for this job.

Official Website: http://hardenedlinux.sourceforge.net.

[Slackware is a reg. trademark of Patrick Volkerding, Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds]