On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 6:32:41 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > We all know Fedora is a big name, but is it a good choice for a Security > Driven OS like QubeOS to be based around? > What do others here think?
There are a lot of packages creating a bigger attack surface. but, bigger distros like fedora have companies behind them like red hat. red hat has been pretty good about actively looking for vulnerabilities in those packages. distros that automatically upgrade to the latest version (gentoo etc) can also burn you. they would make better template vms where your more likely to want newer software and new issues can be better contained. for dom0, newer distros are better at hardware compatibility with those fancy new processors, graphics cards and storage controllers in laptops. just personal opinion, but wayland is a better fit than x11 for qubes in the long run. fedora is the only distro with a dedicated security staff actively supporting it. anytime you abstract a layer, your diluting your resources. maintaining a dom0 isnt much more work than a domu template, but if you want to add slackware, arch, and gentoo, youve now more than doubled the developers distro maintanance work when they could be working on stability and features. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e58b3b5b-96f8-429d-85ad-38a325721642%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
