Cafaro’s Ramblings

Well, I’m getting ready for LinuxWorld/OpenSolutionsWorld next week. Not to much to do, most things I’m responsible for, I’ve taken care of. Looking forward to it. I hope people enjoy the Security Track I’ve put together. Guess I’ll know soon.

In related news, I’ve been asked back to do be on the Program Committee for San Francisco as well! I’ll also be doing the Security Track again, hopefully I can make it even better.

Going to be fun!

Oh, it’s a good night, thanks to some hard work by others (with me cheering along, and lending what little help I could), some hardware changes, and a little fiddling on my part, I’ve got Fedora Core 5 running VERY well on my laptop now. I’ve so missed Linux on it, WinXP Pro just didn’t really have what I needed. Anyways, there is more information here:

Update for the FC3 Install guide (Untill I write up the FC5 Guide)

I’ll be writing up a Fedora Core 5 install guide in the next week or so hopefully, just been swamped recently with stuff.

Well SELinux has begun the long needed improvement in simplification this week. Tresys Technology (I used to work for them for about a year), has released two new tools to make SELinux Policy writing easier. They are both very early additions (consider them Beta), and they are opensource.

SELinux Policy Development IDE (SLIDE)

CDS Frameworkd IDE

The CDS IDE is more for a very targeted audience (If you don’t know what CDS means, it’s probably not a priority for you), but the other tools are a nice first step towards making Policy writing within the reach of mere mortals (and not just Policy gurus). There is still more work needed, but I think the people at Tresys know what is needed and are trying to get there in baby steps.

Well, I’ve been very busy the last couple of months. I was asked to be the Security Track Chair for LinuxWorld Boston 2006! You can check the conference out here: LinuxWorld
It’s been an interesting challenge getting speakers and trying to make the Security Track as diverse and interesting as I would like. It’s not perfect, but I think it’s a good show.