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Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.
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Update tests_boot_services -> (E)LILO warning #1549

Open teoberi opened 1 month ago

teoberi commented 1 month ago

Adding "discontinued" warning for LILO/ELILO. As of January 2016, LILO is no longer actively developed. ELILO project is orphaned, Debian dropped it in 2014, and RH & SUSE stopped using this tree (and feeding back change) long before that so no longer interested in working on it. Apart from Slackware, which still has packages for LILO and ELILO, I don't know if anyone else uses them, and anyway, Slackware has an active and well-configured package for GRUB.

teoberi commented 1 month ago

Can we do something about this? If anyone knows other viable alternatives they can be added (I only added what I used or I know for sure are OK).

wileyhy commented 1 month ago

From what I understand from Wikipedia, Syslinux is still in use for booting ISO 9660 disk images.

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Can we do something about this? If anyone knows other viable alternatives they can be added (I only added what I used or I know for sure are OK).

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teoberi commented 1 month ago

I have never used Syslinux, but from what I found on the net it seems that it is a bit dead. https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BIOSBootISOWithGrub2

Modify lorax-generic-templates to use GRUB2 when booting the boot.iso on BIOS systems, instead of syslinux. Upstream syslinux development is dead, and the Fedora maintainer would like to drop the package from the distribution. GRUB2 works as a replacement in most situations and continues to have upstream support.