heads
A minimal Linux that runs as a coreboot or LinuxBoot ROM payload to provide a secure, flexible boot environment for laptops, workstations and servers. (by linuxboot)
btrfs-todo
An issues only repo to organize our TODO items (by btrfs)
| heads | btrfs-todo | |
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| 31 | 8 | |
| 1,380 | 18 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 9.5 | 10.0 | |
| 7 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Makefile | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
heads
Posts with mentions or reviews of heads.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
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Thinkpad W530 No GPU output
I downloaded the VGA ROM for my Thinkpad W530 for both the Intel IGPU and Nvidia Quadro K1000M using this and configured the build config to use them with the correct PCI ports (8086,0166 10de,0ffc). Everything works fine except the output for both the VGA and the mini DP port. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could be missing here?
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Can i make full disk encryption more convenient or should i just use an encrypted home dir?
You may be interested in Heads, which is available on Purism laptops under the name PureBoot. Though this really needs a coreboot-capable machine, I think, and isn't something you can just add to your existing UEFI boot chain.
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Getting LUKS, Btrfs, Hibernation and Swap file working in tandem
You don't need to encrypt anything to verify those images, you just need to sign them. See how Heads does this.
https://github.com/osresearch/heads
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Live OS needs a new name, what should it be?
Unfortunately there is also the Heads secure firmware: https://osresearch.net/ as well. Otherwise my vote would go to Heads. Liive OS could be pretty hard to optimize in a search engine, they'll think it's misspelled. Could call it "Miles" and just never ack the reference...
- Heads: Minimal Linux that runs as coreboot payload to provide secure environment
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Grub, Syslinux, or another bootloader?
Heads, https://osresearch.net/
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verify secure flash
If you worried about malicious changes, there is the write lock protection feature in coreboot that prevents internal flashing. This would require you to flash externally whenever you want to update coreboot. If worried someone will also flash your BIOS externally, you may want to look into Heads
- Dedicated mini PC for Bitcoin transactions with no wifi? Most Raspberry Pi models have wifi and the zero 1.3 seems to have been discontinued
- Physical Key Computer Access
- Is TPM actually anti-consumer?
btrfs-todo
Posts with mentions or reviews of btrfs-todo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-10.
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btrfs-cleaner high CPU utilization and severe performance issues - fyi
It should be resolved with "Tree extension V2" https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-todo/issues/25
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How can I modify a partition, subvolume or folder to be case-insensitive?
You could open a feature request at https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-todo/.
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ZFS vs Btrfs in 2022
Thankfully, much of the work with extent tree v2 will address most of these issues, so expect this to improve in the next year or two.
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[GIT PULL] Btrfs updates for 6.1
Pretty sure that will become possible/easier with Extent tree v2.
- Send bcachefs some love!
- Btrfs Extent Tree v2
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Btrfs Extent Tree v2 Work Progressing For Improving The File-System's On-Disk Format
For actual details: https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-todo/issues/25
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Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
fscrypt support for btrfs is still being planned; see the most recent comments at https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-todo/issues/25
What are some alternatives?
When comparing heads and btrfs-todo you can also consider the following projects:
skulls - pre-built coreboot images and documentation on how to flash them for Thinkpad Laptops
tpm2-totp - Attest the trustworthiness of a device against a human using time-based one-time passwords
1vyrain - LiveUSB Bootable exploit chain to unlock all features of xx30 ThinkPad machines. WiFi Whitelist, Advanced Menu, Overclocking.
pkgbuild-linux-bcachefs - PKGBUILD for Linux with bcachefs support
NanoPi-R4S-OpenWRT - OpenWrt Frimwares for FriendlyARM NanoPi R4S
sbctl - :computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
safeboot - Scripts to slightly improve the security of the Linux boot process with UEFI Secure Boot and TPM support
cryptboot - Encrypted boot partition manager with UEFI Secure Boot support
EMBA - EMBA - The firmware security analyzer
mortar - Framework to join Linux's physical security bricks.
ansitest - ansible test stuff and root/bin bash scripts for Linux / OSX admins