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Add to BraveWhen comparing Hardened Gentoo vs openSUSE Tumbleweed, the Slant community recommends Hardened Gentoo for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for Misanthropes?” Hardened Gentoo is ranked 25th while openSUSE Tumbleweed is ranked 57th. The most important reason people chose Hardened Gentoo is:
From SELinux to PaX to AppArmor to ... The wiki has got you covered.
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Pros
Pro Comprehensive hardened guide in wiki
From SELinux to PaX to AppArmor to ... The wiki has got you covered.
Pro Supports custom hardened kernels
Your only real options for a widely supported hardened distro are the Red Had distros (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora) of which Fedora is your best bet for a desktop , or Gentoo. You can make a hardened kernel in Gentoo while stripping unnecessary features, creating a much smaller attack surface, and using in-kernel mitigations others don’t.
Pro Best defense against NOP-sled malwares, even with ROP/COP mechanisms
Out of CentOS/RedHat/Fedora/OpenSUSE/Slackware/FreeBSD/Mandriva and Arch, only Gentoo can best protect you against NOP-sled malwares, even with ROP/COP mechanisms.
Pro Stable
Tumbleweed is stable enough to use every day. Updates are OpenQA tested to ensure stability before being released for Tumbleweed. Bleeding edge untested software can be tried using OpenSUSE factory.
Pro Tumbleweed + OpenSUSE Build Service
Pro Easy installation and cutting edge apps
Pro Good selection of preinstalled applications
Pro a large amount of softwares!
Pro User friendly + Good support
Active and friendly user community, updates come fast
Cons
Con Complex multimedia codecs and plugins installation
Con Little / no third-party support
Like it or not, most third parties don't want to deal with less-popular distros. So most of them only support Ubuntu LTS and those versions of RHEL/CentOS that are still supported.
Con Slow and painful unfortunately, especially compared to other modern distros
Con "Online Update" update in YaST control center only works in openSUSE Leap.
Con Packman repository has to be added to have good software support.
For me, not really a con
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