LinuxPlanet: Novell Opens Its Armor

“SUSE Linux is sometimes remembered for having really excellent
tools (such as YaST) that start closed and eventually became open.
Today SUSE’s parent company, Novell, is continuing that tradition
with the open-source release of the its AppArmor security
application.

“A direct outcome of last year’s acquisition of Immunix, Inc.,
AppArmor is a framework application that can apply security
processes and policies to any application running in a given
environment, in much the same way SELinux functions. Unlike
SELinux, which is notoriously difficult to configure correctly,
AppArmor features a more user-friendly configuration system…”

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