Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

After you have installed a minimum SELinux setup in QEMU, you might want to tweak and edit the policy to fit your needs.

A nice, graphical method to do so is to use SLIDE, written by Tresys (and released under the terms of the GPL). SLIDE is an Eclipse (>= 3.1) plugin, which you can install easily:

• Click Help->Software Updates->Find and install...
• Click Search for new features to install, then New remote site
• Enter "http://www.tresys.com/files/eclipse-update/" as URL, click Finish.
• After that, select the new entry, and install SLIDE (will restart Eclipse).

Of course, you can also easily use your favourite text-editor to edit the plain policy files (if you use the te.vim file from Thomas Bleher you get syntax highlighting, at least for *.te files). After placing the file in the ~/.vim/syntax directory, add this to your ~/.vimrc:

if has("autocmd")
  filetype plugin on
  augroup te
    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile          *.te set filetype=te
  augroup END
endif

A very interesting post from Mark Wielaard outlines how we can "ensure that developers can create applications using the java programming language without having to depend on proprietary software". Very good read and definately a very important and worthwhile cause.

Also recommended: ClasspathMigration: practical tips on how to avoid proprietary (java) coding styles.

(via eDev News)