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The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems (yazomietech.bearblog.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by yazomie@lemmings.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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TL;DR - About switching from Linux Mint to Qubes OS from among various other options that try to provide security out-of-the-box (also discussed: OpenBSD, SculptOS, Ghaf, GrapheneOS)

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I am excited to see Chimera Linux mature because iy seems like a distro which prioritizes a simple but modern software stack.

Features of Chimera that I like include:

Not run by fascists
Not SystemD (dinit)
Not GNU coreutils (BSD utils)
Not glibc (musl)
Not jemalloc (mimalloc)
Proper build system, not just Bash scripts in a trenchcoat

What I would like:

MAC (SELinux)
Switch to Fish over Bash (because it is a much lighter codebase)
Switch from mimalloc to hardened_malloc (or mimalloc built with secure flag). Sadly hardened_malloc is only x64 or aarch64
Hardened sysctl kernel policy

[–] yazomie@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chimera is a nice alternative to Alpine, have you thought of sending this feedback to Chimera's dev?

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought about it (and I might still) but the project is still in beta and implementing sysctl and MAC would slow everything down development-wise. Switching to Fish would be easy and cool though.

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