I eamn, we can see this #OpenWashing by #RedHat and others #paywalling #SourceCode access...

• Legally they can do that even with #GPLv2, but that doesn't make it morally correct, because the idea of #FLOSS is #trust throigh #reproduceable & #Auditable builds.

@mrmasterkeyboard np.

To me @OS1337 is just an attempt to a minimalist #Linux distro because I want some #reproduceable & #auditable #firmware for various other projects, and both @yoctoproject and #RaspberryPiOS 'lite' seem rather excessive to me.

• Also a proper minimalist #CLI-based #distro that can be used for an "#SSH-#Terninal" does have merits.

I just think that it can have serious benefits being less distracting and allowing me (and others) to just use basically any hardware to get work done...

• The rest of the component selection came because it was either dictated by necessity (Linux has the most driver support and biggest community), alignment with values & goals ( @landley 's #toybox is a clean & minimalist userland) and being better than #GNU stuff (i.e. @musl / #musl) by not bricking shit at random minor updates…

@eu_os @EC_OSPO #IMHO, it's overdue that @EUCommission & @bsi ban non-#FLOSS & #CCSS in #administration and espechally #CriticalInfrastructure.

• We need #auditable (as in #ReproduceableBuilds!) systems!

El caso de la IA auditable con Mike Whitmire, CEO de Floqast #auditable #caso #CEO #con #Floqast #Mike #Whitmire #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/el-caso-de-la-ia-auditable-con-mike-whitmire-ceo-de-floqast/?feed_id=18031&_unique_id=68026f939f49c

Yes. this is a good thing for #ITsec to let end-users know if their system runs #outdated / #vulnerable #Microcode and have #Linux update it.

• OFC this can't fix the systemic issues #ix86 & #amd64 have, but I do think this is such a vital thing that I do want to integrate it into @OS1337 as having some low-level diagnostics and means to fix things is literally the point of said distro!

Consider it a more streamlined "Rescue Linux" which is intended to be #reprpduceable, #auditable and small enough to fit on a #BootROM!

#Intel #ITsec #Updates

@eemmaa personally, I do intent to copy that with @OS1337 because #ReproduceableBuilds are as much of an important step in having an #auditable system as having unrestricted (#opensource licensed!) #sourcecode availability & access...

Tangents aside, people are free to create forks and even branches that include #SystemD or use #BusyBox:

That is the #Freedom of #FLOSS and in fact for anything outside the 1440kB target we'd accept #SystemD since it works and solves a lot of issues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Granted OS/1337 isn't a #demo first but rather tries to take the concept of #tomsrtbt and @w84death 's #Floppinux and tries to make it something that is useable and can be extended to arbitrary complexity if one desires to...

It's about making a tiny #Linux distro that is #reproduceable and #auditable...

It won't replace @ubuntu or any other big distro, likely it won't even replace #mkroot from #toybox but it should be a clean and level foundation for small #IoT and #EmbeddedSystems projects and products...

Something that is easy to build and customize and port to other platforms...

And we're open for contributions:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/docu/ideas/architectures.tsv

/e/OS = #privacy by design, which makes it an exception on the mobile market.

That is what academic research found, comparing data sent by Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and /e/OS smartphones.

#auditable #privacy

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-reveals-scale-data-sharing-android-mobile.html

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf