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posted by takyon on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the le-manchot-empereur dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:21PM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:21PM (#738651) Journal

    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?

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:33PM (#738653)

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 23 2018, @06:05AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday September 23 2018, @06:05AM (#738778) Journal

    So, how secure are these secure and public areas?

    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.

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