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Do any hardened Linux distributions exist?

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For example, ones that implement these guidelines? https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html

Alternatively, packages for Fedora that would set this up automatically

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Oh good to know! Thanks for the tips. What do you like about musl over glibc?

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To be honest, I only use it for fun. Unless you enjoy tinkering like I do, or you have really low RAM, there’s no reason to use it over glibc. I’m aware that Madaidan also mentioned that it is more secure, but I’m not too knowledgeable on that so I can’t really comment.

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Ah gotcha, just asking because I’ve never used it before. Good to know that Gentoo supports hardening it

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Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.

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