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French Government Open Sources Secure Operating System: CLIP OS

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

canopic jug writes:

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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:50PM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:50PM (#738682) Homepage Journal

    "vishy" --> "Vichy"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:26AM (#738700)

    Fishy. Fishy like every claim you make is suspect because you're a damn liar.

    Fuck MDC

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:56AM (#738710)

    "vishy" --> "Vichy"

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @06:19PM (#739310)

    French-Indian of course.