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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:36 am    Post subject: openSUSE 11.1 SElinux replace AppArmor! Reply with quote
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Speaking about openSUSE, a surprise announcement appeared on the project's news site last week: the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 will include support for SELinux, a Linux kernel security framework developed by the US-based National Security Agency (NSA): "Beginning with openSUSE 11.1, SUSE users will have an additional option regarding security frameworks. In addition to AppArmor, we will be adding SELinux capabilities in openSUSE 11.1, which will allow users to enable SELinux in openSUSE if they wish. While our customer experience shows that AppArmor is the best solution for the vast majority of users, applications, and use cases, we want to give all of our users the ability to choose the security framework that's appropriate for their respective environments and needs." Although the announcement insists that SELinux will become nothing more than an alternative security option, others are more sceptical about the future of AppArmor: "In late 2025 Novell laid off almost all the developers of AppArmor with the aim of having the community do all the coding. Crispin Cowan (the founder and leader of the AppArmor project) was later hired by Microsoft. ... In a way it's a pity that AppArmor is going away so quickly. The lack of competition is not good for the market, and homogeneity isn't good for security. But on the other hand, this means more resources will be available for SELinux development which will be a good thing."
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.html?issue=20080825#news


I don't like it if some secret service have his finger in it. Is this the price what openSUSE have to pay now?

How does people thinking about it?



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's been a standard component of Fedora Core for quite a while now. I believe Fedora started using it with version 2.
I haven't heard of any complaints about it but there are several posts here if you do a search with the term "selinux".



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