The French government has released CLIP OS to the public. It is based on the Linux kernel with a GNU userspace and Gentoo Hardened as the base. The system has been developed for in-house use and is maintained by the National Cybersecurity Agency of France, or Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI). The kernel is hardened by a custom "Linux Security Module". The source for versions 4 and 5 of the whole distro are now released for public scrutiny and people are free to compile either. Version 5 has documentation in English. There are currently no plans to distribute binaries.
The French government's national cybersecurity agency has released an operating system built using open source components internally over the course of more than 10 years for use by the French administration.
Dubbed CLIP OS, the operating system is based on the open source Linux kernel, but focuses on security hardening and provides partitioning mechanisms that allow the processing of both public and sensitive information in isolation on the same computer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:07PM (5 children)
For Immediate Release
Paris, France - ANSSI (National Cybersecurity Agency of France) [ssi.gouv.fr] announce the immediate availability of CLIP OS, a secure, open source operating system built on Gentoo Hardened and the Linux kernel.
Security Objectives
CLIP OS features multi layered security implemented as a series of patches to the Linux kernel and a fork of systemd tailored to French security needs.
Containers provide a level of security beyond traditional Access Control Lists while our systemd replacement, surrenderd ensures process isolation. All authority is subsumed to the Trusted Platform Module via our vishy kernel module. Unsigned binaries are further isolated and separately interned using a mechanism we call "yellow badging".
Availability
CLIP OS is currently available as source code for UEFI Secure Boot compliant systems. We are aiming to make a binary release as soon as possible. Installation will be mandatory.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:50PM (4 children)
"vishy" --> "Vichy"
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:26AM (1 child)
Fishy. Fishy like every claim you make is suspect because you're a damn liar.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 23 2018, @02:49AM
My preference is for deep fried cod, also calamari.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:56AM
Congratulations, there's no getting anything past you, you picked up on the most subtle part of my troll. In fact, the only part of my troll because a system like this being imposed should be the stuff of nightmares for everyone. The rest fits under satire then, I'm sure you would agree, these advancements would be almost as bad as section 1706 of the tax reform act?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @06:19PM
French-Indian of course.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:21PM (2 children)
what sort of capitalists are the French?
Giving stuff away - for free
Proving all the stereotypes! Surrender! Lose!
No True American would give stuff away when they could charge for it, or better still, create recurrent licenses!
/mild sarcasm.
So, how secure are these secure and public areas? While they are bound to be better than Win95, do they restrict access from certain prcesses?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:33PM
Can you see it? Can you feel it? A conspiracy is underfoot. No one was capable of feeling that more clearly than the target of the conspiracy: Nickelson.
Nickelson was sweating profusely. How could he not, possessing the knowledge that he's the target of a vast conspiracy? Anyone would be nervous under these circumstances. But, how did he know, exactly? How did Nickelson know about this conspiracy? Was he crazy, or was there actually evidence? Oh, there was ample evidence: They broke too quickly.
They. Them. Those. Nickelson had only played with them for a few minutes before they broke. That was too suspicious! Sure, children were weak and fragile creatures, but a little game shouldn't cause them to become worthless lumps of meat! Thus, Nickelson concluded that those children were part of a sinister plot to deprive him of his satisfaction in life: Beating and violating children.
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It didn't take long before the vengeful man found those children's friends. Nickelson, with great haste, grabbed them and began violently mashing his genitals together with theirs. They screamed. They screamed and cried and begged for Nickelson to stop, but he simply chortled. You see, the man loved to make them squeal until their vocal cords gave out. "Ah, this is the best revenge!" the man spat out. But, he would soon discover that he had underestimated the true scale of the conspiracy.
Yes, they had been in on it too. All the children's friends he gathered broke in mere minutes. They had just been strangled, stabbed, mutilated, and violated, and yet they had become silent already!? This was no coincidence. Nickelson began sweating profusely after comprehending that the conspiracy was vast indeed. Then, he came to a conclusion.
Their friends. Their friends' friends. Their friends' friends' friends. Nickelson would have to bring justice down upon them all, and more! For freedom, for justice, and for peace, Nickelson would have to violate them all...
Nickelson would spend the rest of his life battling against the Machiavellian figures that sought to destroy his life, leaving behind a mountain of corpses as he did so. However, he soon discovered that they, too, were part of the conspiracy, driving him into an endless cycle of madness from which he could never return...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 23 2018, @06:05AM
The nice thing with Open Source is that you can check that for yourself. Or if you don't have the knowledge, let someone you trust check it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)
They should have taken up Devuan and gave them support. Damn frogs never miss a chance to screw up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @05:38AM
It's based on gentoo. You can easily take systemd out from gentoo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:42PM (1 child)
Leave the spying on cituzens to professionals like Google and Facebook.
(Score: 1) by NateMich on Saturday September 22 2018, @10:21PM
Where do you get your stupid ideas?
This is exactly the opposite of what you just described.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @10:45PM
The French are free to make Linux great again now that Linus has been fired forever.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:39PM (6 children)
Dieu!, they missed on on the chance of calling it Porth OS.
morbleu, sanglant mangeurs d'ail inutile...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:44PM (5 children)
shit, that should have been 'out on', in mitigation I plead: Fernet-Branca and Codeine...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:06AM (4 children)
You know what's worse than typos? Apologies for typos. Everybody knew what you meant. Apologizing now makes you look like a vain jerk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @01:18AM (2 children)
You know what's worse than drinking wine and taking opiates? People who rag on people who drink wine and take opiates!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 23 2018, @02:33AM
You know what's even worse?
NOT BLOODY SHARING!
:)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:18PM
I'm not taking opiates. And the wine is a really really cheap Aldi special.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @01:31AM
I think you'll find that's 'vain drunk and drug addled jerk'
Sorry, but as one of my front teeth has been knocked out and I'm using a combination of alcohol and codeine to zap the pain until I can get to a witchdoctor, my normal impeccable judgement is somewhat impaired, not that I really give a flying fuck about your opinion here either in my normal state or especially in my current altered one, but hey, I could have been going for 'they missed on, on the chance of calling it Porth OS!' so subtly different, and having just spent a couple of days captioning and annotating drawings and photographs and auditing code comments these things do matter.. so before I get to teh piton hatt I tarts magnik oto nyma poyts, I'll bid you all adieu and go back to bibbing the booze and noodling on the bass..