Very short and direct to the point, do people think that an endorsed in-house distro maintained and created by PG could potentially fill a gap in the Linux community?
No, there’s already people way more qualified and with experience actually doing that making Linux distros. A PG Linux distro would essentially just be a rebranded version of something already existing and I don’t think that would be useful to anyone.
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Yeah, if is just to rebrand someone else works I agree. I was thinking of a group of people doing a new community distro such as Arch but focusing on security like to a certain extension Fedora.
What made me ask it was someone asking the other day about any proven track of benefit introduced by Fedora security measures delivered out of the box.
If I’m not mistaken there wasn’t any record. That made me a bit unease about why keep using Fedora since we are talking about a corporate backed up distro. Not to introduce any fearmongering but from a philosophical point of view I would feel a bit better using a community secure distro (even knowing that PG recommends Arch, we need to configure quite a lot of things to reach an acceptable minimum).
I’d point to Secure Blue, they take fedora and harden it a lot more. Very cool project and I think what you’re probably looking for.
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What I am interested to know is what gap (that isn’t filled up yet) by other distros that you are thinking of addressing?
Branding as a meme is a thing (Like Hanna Montana Linux) and I am sure you are interested in that.
Also, I don’t hear an awful lot of devs that are here and running your own distro needs more than what we have in our forum right now.
The flip side is, maybe PG as an institution, can sponsor something like Tails, maybe?
I considered it but aside from losing some flexibility and having less documentation I don’t like much to be using something out of the mainline, recent example.
I’m gravitating more towards trying Arch but I’ll have to invest quite some time to get it with the security that I need and to implement some automation to the updates cadence to avoid instabilities.
I kinda of touched it with my poor English before. I’m looking for some type of Arch and Fedora baby. A mainline community distro with security in mind.
QubesOS already fills this niche?
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A PG distro would be even more niche, maybe something you would be interested in would be a script that installs PG recommended apps and applies PG recommended configurations?
Isn’t QubeOS official supported templates only Fedora and Debian?
Why?
There is also Whonix, as well as community templates for distros like Ubuntu
Secureblue already has an established, built-up community of users, while a PG distro would have to start out with no users. Also, lots of PG community members are content with their current distro, so a PG distro would only appeal to those who tolerate inconvenience enough to use Linux, but not enough to manually go through PG guides.
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