so hardened gentoo has been suggested to me as more secure than linux peppermint or LUNBUNTU.

question 1.

I went to the gentoo website and they have harden tarballs that say stage 3.
so do i have to first install normal gentoo THAN somehow install the stage 3 harden tarball
to achieve hardened gentoo??

question 2

i see there is something called PENTOO-x86-hardened live dvd. it looks like i can install PENTOO and it is configured to be hardened by default without having to do the stage 3 stuff that gentoo requires. AM I CORRECT IN THINKING THIS ABOUT PENTOO-hardened?

here is the pentoo website =http://www.pentoo.ch/about


any input and thought on this are appreciated thanks!