This is a Linux distribution with some clever ideas about container isolation and using the PAX / grsecurity kernel patchset.<p>Since it is running Linux, not some minimal RTOS, I take some of their marketing on the website with a huge grain of salt. When it says things like, "verifiably trustworthy" and is a Linux distribution, it makes baby Brad Spengler (Spender) cry. Call me a skeptic, but I'm currently using Linux, professionally have managed Linux for over a decade, and <3 it entirely. That being said, I call BS on a Linux distribution that claims what this does.<p>Great marketing page however!<p>Written from my Fedora 20 laptop with SELinux enabled and my tinfoil anti-NSA hat on
Hi Bruce from Subgraph here.<p>Yesterday we updated our website with information about a new project that we've been working on since December and made a very small announcement on Twitter about the website change and this generated more attention than we were expecting.<p>So I should clarify the status of the project which is that we haven't released anything yet, but we've been working on what is described on our website for the last 6 months. We predict but can't promise that we'll have something available for brave enthusiastic people to test by the end of summer. That's the point at which we normally would have announced our project here.
I am sick of tired of hearing about projects, lately
oten security related projects that are vaporware.<p>They have nice websites, nice graphics, very professional,
but that is all. Nice marketing.<p>The title
"Subgraph OS: Adversary-resistant computing platform"<p>Should be<p>"Project SubgraphOS is an idea to build a Adversary-resistant computing platform"<p>Take me to a really plain website, and state status on the
front page<p>"No release, No source"<p>But maybe some design documents?<p>On top of that please say on the front page
"Yet another Linux distro"<p>so people like me dont get the impression that its
actually something interesting written from scratch.
It's an operating system, supposedly built from ground up. I'm really sceptical about security if it was just released and build from ground up.<p>They shyly mention Grsecurity hardened kernel. So is it a linux distro or not? I don't know, no mention of linux anywhere else.<p>As someone who might be interested in secure OS but is not an expert in security, this website leaves me very confused.
> Subgraph OS users who install the operating system must have encrypted filesystems. It is not optional in Subgraph OS.<p>I like that. All "secure" operating systems should have that, and <i>all</i> operating systems should have it if they benefit from hardware encryption, which would make the performance overhead a non-issue.
Well this is good news. More choices we will have, more privacy we get. Maybe one day, this kind of OS will be default for everyone and even usable for "basic" users. I'm really looking forward to try it asap. Keep up the good work guys.
Here's their github for ORCHID (tor on Java?) and VEGA.<p><a href="https://github.com/subgraph" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/subgraph</a>