How secure is Trisquel?
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Can anybody tell me how Trisquel is secured or point me to docs on it?
Mainly, I'd like to know if it's using selinux, apparmor, anti-viris, and chkrootkit. And info on the firewall would also help.
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As for the firewall, you need to install it yourself. Firestarter (and probably others as well) is available in the repositories.
... so you mean there's not firewall enabled by default?
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That's right. I think it is (or was) the same situation as in Ubuntu, you need to install it yourself.
Well that's not very polite... You don't have sex with out a condom!!!
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GNU/Linux is infinitely more secure than Windows or MacOS as it is. While virus scanning is unlikely to do anything but slow down your system, a firewall might be a useful security measure if you're running a server. It's not really necessary to install security software on GNU/Linux since the amount of malware that targets or affects it can be counted on one little hand, and because obtaining root access remotely is nearly impossible anyway; the kernel developers do everything they can to ensure that it stays that way.
If you don't believe me, I encourage you to Google it. GNU/Linux and especially BSD architectures are their own best malware protection.
I know that; it's one of the reasons I only run linux when I can. But, not all of us stay in the nice and safe areas of the internet. If you get what I mean. That and even though malicious rarely has a chance against linux because of how much goes in to it's writing and up keep there is still a very very very small percent of malicious code out there to break into a linux box. it's the people that make that small percent that I'm keeping an eye on.
One man's paranoia is another man's redundant security...
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Well, then you are free to install it in a few seconds. But it burdens the majority of us wholesome GNU/Linux users to include security software in the distro by default. :)
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