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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations


SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain

"We would like to announce that with the next openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20250211 the default mandatory access control (MAC) system selected by the installer will be switched from AppArmor to SELinux in enforcing mode. The matter of switching from AppArmor to SELinux has been an openSUSE discussion point for the better part of the past year.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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