From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:58:55 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org Message-ID: <20200910205855.GP24847@imap.altlinux.org> References: <685847473.842306.1599769855079.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <685847473.842306.1599769855079@mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <685847473.842306.1599769855079@mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: "Dmitriy D. Shadrinov" Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Some questions about Alt Linux from a beginner. X-BeenThere: community-en@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "ALT Linux users \(in English only\)" List-Id: "ALT Linux users \(in English only\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:58:56 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:30:55PM +0000, Jason Long wrote: > I never used Alt Linux and it is interesting for me because > of security category. I have some questions and I'm thankful > if anyone answer to my questions clearly. Welcome ;-) > 1- Can I use any .rpm files on Alt Linux? For example, > Can I install CentOS or Red Hat programs onšAlt Linux? You can at least try and sometimes this will work but don't count on it to work _every_ time. The common problem is library dependencies; we maintain some RH-compatible versions and so called "provides" for some well-known 3rd party packages but it's not a universal rule. > 2- Which security mechanism using byšAlt Linux? > SELinux or AppArmor? There's SELinux available; don't know how selinux-policy-alt would suit your particular needs though. What you didn't ask about here is http://en.altlinux.org/control over security-sensitive objects like SUID/SGID binaries or -- in some cases -- configuration. tcb(5) might be of some interest, too. > 3- CanšAlt Linux offers all of the CentOS features as a web server? Hard to tell for me as I never ran a CentOS web server... you get more or less all of the common-use webservers and some application stacks and webapps along with that, see also http://packages.altlinux.org/en > 4- Can it support Xen? There are Xen packages in p9 repository, let's ask the Xen maintainer, Dmitry, but I'd presume that he actually uses it judging by maintenance style. PS: just in case, there's a rather minimalistic ALT Server starterkit: http://en.altlinux.org/starterkits and even a JeOS for those preferring their systems to be built more or less from the ground up; those of us willing to build custom images use mkimage-profiles configuration management to do so (it's mostly documented in Russian but there's not that much needed to actually run it). PPS: en.altlinux.org is pretty scarce, most of the documentation for ALT sits on a Russian-speaking www.altlinux.org site as well as within docs.altlinux.org; some of the articles could be legible through e.g. google translate and some were translated by hand after reasonable requests (it's hard to put a lot of time and effort within a page someone didn't really need...). -- š---- WBR, Michael Shigorin / http://altlinux.org šš------ http://opennet.ru / http://anna-news.info