TIL the US Department of Defense maintained their own Linux LiveCD distro until 2021

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Portable_Security

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coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I remember working with someone contracting for DoD who had to rebuild Apache because he wasn't allowed to use open source libraries for security reasons 😂 your tax dollars at work

delirious_owl@discuss.online · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That doesn't make sense. The NSA published an excellent guide to secure hardening of RHEL that was like a Bible for all the security teams back in the day

DoD probably just had some dummies back then that eventually got replaced

coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah I told him as much. He agreed it was dumb

felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Wow

BurnedDonut@ani.social · 6 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Is there any civilian alternative distros like this one?

RigshawRick@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Tails?

BurnedDonut@ani.social · 2 pts · 2y

Thanks I'll check it out.

delirious_owl@discuss.online · 3 pts · 2y

TAILS is probably better than this ever was.

CameronDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y

Its functionally pretty close to a thin client OS? You could probably roll your own with a little bit of effort

mikyopii@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y

It was kinda bad.

It's a lot better now, but getting to military web sites, especially OWA, has always been a pain in the ass on personal computers. I tried this out trying to avoid using my main computer for work stuff and it just didn't work that well.

I don't think anyone was really using it that much which is probably why it isn't maintained.