Is there any FireHOL "certification" for any OS?

[johnnyutahh]

Is there any FireHOL project or community "certification" (offering the sysadmin human some level of confidence, whether it's officially "support" or not) for any OS?

I'm specifically interested in 2 things:

1. discovering if any certification/support/simillar processes/programs exit.
2. to see if either Ubuntu or Fedora are part of this "certification" (or whatever it may be) process.

I thought of this point after there was noticably no response from my following comment:
#431 (comment)

[philwhineray]

Hi

No, there's no certification process that I know of. I'm aware that some larger projects may do so, or may produce packages specifically for particular distributions, but we do not.

We rely (as do the vast majority of projects) on the distributions to package up and maintain apprproiately. I see that @jgmbenoit has been trying to help you in your other thread. IIRC he is the Debian Developer who packages FireHOL for Debian. The Ubuntu packages are most likely pulled from there eventually, but he won't have any direct control.

Options, then...

I am sure there are plenty of commercial options for support including Ubuntu and RedHat themselves, though I fully understand you might not want to do that. As you've seen, Jerome is very responsive to people's problems, so perhaps Debian would be a better choice of distribution?

If you want direct support from the package, what you are getting is about as good as it will get, as things stand. This is a small package, no-one here is paid, and support is mostly just users helping each other out.

You could start up an effort to do this, and feedback / propose changes to the distributions and/or document your results here. Anyone helping to solve a problem which may also benefit others is always appreciated!