Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] New to DL

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

The server version has extra hardening against attacks, such as grsecurity
and a few other things.  The non-server does not have these extra
hardening, it's more of a "standard" Linux distro.

Basically if you're going to expose Devil-Linux directly to the internet,
such as a firewall or a web server or DNS server, you're a little safer
running the non-server version.  If you're running DL as an internal server
behind a firewall (i.e. Samba), not exposed directly to the internet, then
the server version might run better for you.  That's because
grsecurity sometimes mistakes high resource using server processes as some
kind of attack and kills them.

If you're running server processes on the non-server version that start
dying for unknown reasons, switch to the server version and see if that
fixes your problems.  And it's never a good idea to run internal servers on
your internet firewall, hence the two distinct versions of Devil-Linux.

 - BS