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by VLM 4312 days ago
"I'm not aware of a single one of the commonly used firewall distros that enables selinux"

commonly used "for" firewalls distro is Debian and selinux "works" on vanilla Debian. Its a labor hog making it less efficient to enable selinux than to look for / fix other problems, but it can be done if you insist and are willing to spend less time securing more important areas (pretty much everything, unfortunately)

On the other hand I am also unable to find a "firewall distro" solely for FW work that does selinux as of last time I looked. Hard to prove a negative but it is possible to prove that if it exists, its well hidden. The marketplace for FW distros is focused on ease of use, security theater, and authoritarianism and credentialism so actual security related features are going to be a pretty low priority in the market, which is humorous / ironic.

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Ah selinux, the NSAs contribution to the linux kernel.