why is athlon hardened?

mukwuknuk · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject: why is athlon hardened?

I'm attempting a fresh, start-from-scratch installation on my Athlon-XP-based computer. I want to run the 2.6 kernel so I'm looking on the mirrors under "experimental", but all I see is a "hardened" version of the Athlon stage. I've looked in other places but it's always the same: the experimental Athlon, which I believe indicates the 2.6 kernel, is always specified as "hardened". Why is that? Anyone know?
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Helper_Monkey · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 141

Experimental in this case is refering to SELinux, i.e. hardened. You don't want to go under experimental; just get the regular sources. If you are following the docs you will get to the stage where you emerge your kernel: you will be able to choose what ever kernel you want including the 2.6.x kernel.
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mukwuknuk · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:21 am Post subject:

Thank you!
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