Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform

Re:Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform by mtgx on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:51PM (#13025306)

Good to hear you're considering it. It may be worth looking into appimages as well. They don't seem to focus as much on security, but perhaps their isolation is better? Flatpaks seem to share quite a bit with each other, and I worry it may create another X11-situation. Flatpaks may still be better overall, though, if they can also have good isolation.

I doubt you should even bother with snaps. They don't seem to be that well supported outside of Ubuntu, and I doubt they will ever be.

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Re:Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform by xdma on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:31PM (#13026318)

We use Xpra to do desktop isolation for now, by the way. It's similar to Qubes' display mechanism, but we didn't write it, and don't really like it as a security control. Just serves as PoC until we can jump to Walyand.

Therefore Subgraph OS isn't in the worst possible x11 situation, which is the default for every desktop Linux except I think the most recently released Fedora.

Re: iso / updates, we have rolling updates. Installed users are kept current if they install the OS and regularly apply updates and do dist-upgrades.

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