book VS silverblue-site

> For details on how I use Qubes specifically see: https://github.com/hashbang/book/blob/master/content/docs/se...

How is this not a contradiction?

>6. Manual PRIVILEGED SYSTEM mutations MUST be approved, witnessed, and recorded

>7. PRIVILEGED SYSTEM mutatations MUST be automated and repeatable via code

Some of my clients pay to do double review of all dependencies.

Others go as far as distributed deterministic builds to ensure CI/CD systems themselves are not compromised.

Here are the latest public iterations of my recommendations.

https://github.com/talos-systems/rfcs/blob/main/001-software...

Also here are complimentary practices to ensure the production engineers that must have access to CI/CD systems etc don't themselves become a weak link in the supply chain (which happens a -lot-).

https://github.com/hashbang/book/blob/master/content/docs/se...

Shameless plug: My company Distrust (short for Distributed Trust), offers auditing, consulting, and support so companies can avoid single points of failure in their supply chains from third party libs to the hands of end users. Happy to chat with anyone that wants some outside eyes in this area!

Fedora; from its 'flagship' Workstation, to their glorious Spins and their Immutable Desktops

Fedora Silverblue - pretty well-known at this point, but it’s championing immutability

Couldn't have said it better!

An example of an installable immutable OS is Fedora Silverblue. Notably, you can change the "distro" flavor of Silverblue to try out KDE and then just flip back to Gnome. Each change is seen as an "update" that just moves you over to the new GUI. The article below explains a bit more.

I guess something like Fedora Silverblue might offer you something (to paraphrase) "stupid proof". For example, in this case the rpm-ostree rollback command would have been sufficient. Disclaimer: rpm-ostree builds images, therefore it's by necessity slower than apt. Futhermore, until this change is merged and deployed you'd have to reboot for the changes to apply. You might want to look into Distrobox as well, perhaps it can solve your problems without having to change your distro.

However, I'll add one more that I'm especially fond of. It's one of the most 'stable'\1]) Linux desktop systems\2]) without sacrificing access to the latest kernel-updates and packages. It comes bundled with everything\3]) necessary for productivity right out of the box and is built on top of the fundamentals laid by Fedora's Immutable Desktops. Allow me to introduce uBlue; I know that I'll undersell it regardless, so I recommend you to check the provided link instead.

the immutable desktops offered by Fedora; which would be Silverblue, Kinoite and Sericea (special mention goes to uBlue)

OS: Fedora Silverblue