Re: Few Questions About Debian

Quoth Depo Catcher:
During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is
pretty sweet sounding.
How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does
it use GELI or something else?

I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but am going to
change that the next couple of weeks. Thins you might want to google for: LVM
(logical volume manager) cryptfs LUKS and stuff like that. I hear it's quite
easy, once you've read some HOWTOs.

What is the default encryption used and is there any way to change it?
Does Linux support crypto cards that work with this?

Yes Linux supports some crypto cards. As you're coming from FreeBSD you should
want to compile your own kernel anyways. Look into Crypthographic API -->
Hardware crypto devices. There might be some other cards supported, too, search
the Net for your favorite.

I take it apt-get is the way to maintain packages on Debian?

Yes.

Say I want
to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my version,
is there an easy way to do that?

Debian stable is already very secure, the maintainers do a good job in keeping
stuff clean and stable. But you can always download the deb-src package (be sure
to include the src-repos for that, too) and compile that stuff yourself, possibly
applying patches along the way

If a person wanted, could they recompile all packages from source (and
use optimized complier options) instead of installing from binaries?

Well, there's always LFS... but if you really want to compile core packages you
should look into other distros like Gentoo or Arch Linux. deb-src can help you
here, but other two are closer to the FreeBSD-spirit anyways (ports-like package
management) and offer source-code based solutions. In Gentoo you compile
everything, in Arch Linux you may compile everything and will be forced to
compile some stuff anyways.

Aleks

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