Quebes + Whonix
Hello,
Quebes and Whonix do not appear at https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
Neither does Debian but, as far as I know, you can easily run Debian with only free software.
I would like to know if I could easily try Quebes + Whonix (https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes) and be sure that I am only using free software.
Thank you
Here is the explanation why you do not see Debian listed.
http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html
I cannot really comment on the others.
Looks like Qubes uses Linux with the blobs. Also, by default Whonix uses Virtualbox, which depends on a non-free compiler since version 4.2. These are things that seem to be wrong at a glance.
yes qubes uses fedora and debian kernels.
whonix in qubes is using xen hypvervisor not virtualbox.
Thank you lembas. I wanted to test them, they together looked a very good security solution. But now I see they're not.
I find it interesting you ask about this on the trisquel forums I don't think this is the place... They are based on xen hypervisor, fedora and debian.
but if you use a windows vm obviously thats proprietary. They also are gpl2 not gplv3 for obvious reasons.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/license
It is not as user friendly as trisquel is and is more resource intensive and still depends alot on good user opsec.
Trisquel with grsecurity kernel patch, apparmor, and ufw is pretty good security. hardenubuntu.com has great tips. Feel free to post if you have questions on anything.