Openwall Linux 3.0 brings new features

“Marking nearly 10 years of Openwall GNU/*/Linux, the Openwall
Project developers have released version 3.0 of Openwall. Openwall
GNU/*/Linux, also known as Owl for short, is a small,
security-enhanced distribution of Linux aimed at servers,
appliances and virtual appliances.

“In an email to The H, the developers said that version 3.0 of
Openwall is “the first Linux distro to have no SUIDs (Set User IDs)
in the default install”, noting that, “Fedora are trying to do it
too (haven’t done it yet), but their approach is entirely different
(they’re mostly just ‘sweeping SUIDs under the rug’ by using fscaps
instead, whereas we actually dealt with the underlying issues by
reworking parts of the userland)”. The latest version of Openwall
adds support for 64-bit systems, as well as the Ext4 file
system”

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