Debian derivatives census: Open Secure-K OS, welcome!

Marco Buratto - Lumit (by way of Anastasia Tsikoza )

2018-10-31 11:57:34 UTC

Hi Anastasia and thanks for your feedback.

LumIT S.p.A. is a system integrator company based in Italy.
LumIT Labs are the innovation laboratories, sponsored and hosted by LumIT S.p.A., in which Open Secure-K OS has been created.

As you noted, Open Secure-K OS is a live operating system, with ISO9660 filesystem as all the other lives, but is capable to update the kernel and has got a unique partitioning scheme, being liveng compliant (https://liveng.readthedocs.io). This is where we mostly worked on and of course we are making the infrastructure more "Debian-way" with time.

Post by Anastasia Tsikoza
The page says that Open Secure-K OS modifies Debian binary packages.

It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Open Secure-K OS actually do this?
If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making?

Yes, we do this way - things are going to change in the near future.
This is performed only on a few Debian packages and it is mostly done to backport some of them from newer repositories.
Other packages are instead the build result of upstream projects' code.

Regards,

Marco.

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Da: Anastasia Tsikoza <***@gmail.com>
Inviato: lunedì 29 ottobre 2018 20:59
A: Marco Buratto - Lumit; info - Mon-K
Cc: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Oggetto: Debian derivatives census: Open Secure-K OS, welcome!

Hi Marco,

I would like to welcome yourself and Open Secure-K OS to the Debian
derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce
yourself and Open Secure-K OS to us all?

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Open_Secure-K_OS

It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel:

https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk

I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives:

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines

You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from
there may apply to Open Secure-K OS.

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA

You don't appear to be subscribed to the Open Secure-K OS census
page, we've made a few changes:

https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Open_Secure-K_OS?action=info

In addition please make sure there is a contact point listed in the
maintainer field of your census page.

The page says that Open Secure-K OS modifies Debian binary packages.
It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of
modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does Open Secure-K OS
actually do this?
If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making?
If not I guess the page needs to be fixed.

Would it be possible for you to add the Open Secure-K OS sources.list to the
wiki page? This will eventually help feed back patches and new packages to
Debian developers.

The page is missing a dpkg vendor field. It is important that Debian
derivatives set this properly on installed systems and mention the value
of the field in the derivatives census.

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https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Vendor

There doesn't appear to be a Open Secure-K OS blog or a blog aggregator
for Open Secure-K OS developers. If these existed they would be syndicated
on Planet Debian derivatives and would help the Debian community find out
the things that are happening in Open Secure-K OS.

https://planet.debian.org/deriv/

Since Open Secure-K OS is based in Italy you might be interested in joining
one of the local Debian groups in Italy.

https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Italy

Next year the annual Debian conference is in Brazil. It would be great if
developers from Open Secure-K OS could attend DebConf.

https://debconf19.debconf.org/

I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued the
success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of
things that need helpers.

https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination

I would encourage LumIT S.p.A. (the Open Secure-K OS corporate sponsor)
to contribute financially to ensure the continued survival of Debian and the
success of the annual Debian conference.

https://www.debian.org/donations
https://debconf.org/sponsors/
https://debconf19.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/

I note that Open Secure-K OS is based on Debian stable. The Debian release
team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable
release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for
rebasing on the next Debian release (buster).

https://release.debian.org/#updates

A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working well is to install
and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up.

https://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help
https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help

Please feel free to circulate this mail within the Open Secure-K OS team.

Best wishes,
Anastasia Tsikoza