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Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users by altairprime on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:03PM (#48574221)
> I would never ever trust Linux from a vendor. If it's not installed by myself, I refuse to use it.

I bet you would, though, if the built OS image were 100% reproducible except for the signature. Once you have a fully reproducible Linux OS build, you can literally copy paste the cryptosig from the vendor and it will work with the image you built yourself from source that you inspected yourself. Then it’s impossible for the government to tap it without breaking the reproducible image checksum and thus the published cryptosig. It’s a better defense than any warrant canary would be, and it satisfies your concerns fully.

Arch shows only 15 packages left for their core OS to be built reproducibly; what I don’t see at their dashboard is the state of their ISO build reproducibility, but I imagine that’s the same as the core, so maybe it’s just unstated for obviousness. https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

Does GrapheneOS publish their repro build efforts as a dashboard anywhere?

Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users by fph on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:31PM (#48575590)
> Does GrapheneOS publish their repro build efforts as a dashboard anywhere?

Instructions to fully reproduce a build are here: https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds (disclaimer: I never tried using them).

Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users by doublerabbit on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:03PM (#48575166)
> I bet you would, though, if the built OS image were 100% reproducible except for the signature.

CryptoSecure, depends how done but again, neither can be fully trusted when they were headed by government agencies in the past.

I don't trust Linux now that Microsoft got mits on it with WSL. RedHat sold-out to IBM and Debian got in bed with Canonical. Arch & Valve I might lead more too but then again I guess they've got to make money somehow.

I use FreeBSD and I don't trust that either unless I can do make install world.

Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users by akimbostrawman on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:53AM (#48582692)
>They've got to make money somehow /shrug

They do with enterprise but not the way they do with consumers. There is no point selling data for ads on couple thousand servers for pennies when they make millions with licensing and support.

All the code microsoft, redhat and canonical contribute to linux is open source anyways.