Running Firefox for the truly paranoid

To have the safest browsing experience, you can run Firefox in a 'sandbox'.

But first you have to:

1. install Fedora 14
   (not tested in Fedora 13)
   

2. yum install policycoreutils-sandbox
   (this needed to supply 'sandboxX.sh' )
   

3. create a directory 'sehome' in your home directory(you can use a directory with a different name if you so wish)
   
   

The following article explains how run Firefox in a very secure environment:
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Now, Firefox is pretty useless without network access. The good news is that you have sandbox types that allow for Web browsing. Here's what you want to run to get a Firefox session going:

sandbox -X -H sehome -T tmp -t sandbox_web_t firefox

Here you're adding two things — the -X option, which tells SELinux "hey, I want an X sandbox," and the type (-t) option which specifies a set of policies that offer the services (like networking) that Firefox needs to operate in a sane way.
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How to get started with Linux

The choice of one's first Linux distribution is important, I started with Debian almost 20 years ago, because my friends who introduced me to Linux ran Debian, and they still do.

The reality is, that the best Linux distribution depends on a number of factors, some of them quite personal. I tend to favour Fedora over Ubuntu, as I have found it easier to use, it tends to have more up-to-date packages and Red Hat contributes considerably more to Linux and upstream packages.

The following is from a good article getting started with Linux, regardless, of what distribution you choose to use, as many of the comments apply directly to other distributions or with only minor changes.
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Fedora is a great choice of distribution to start with. It's easy to install and just as easy to use. It's one of the most well-respected distributions available, and has a very tight relationship with its parent and chief sponsor, Red Hat.

With Fedora, you have access to one of the largest communities in the world of Linux, and one of the the biggest selections of software to play with.
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