OS and Software > All Things Unix > Introducing 'Qubes OS' - A Fedora-Based Security Distro

After nearly three years of work, I have a pleasure to announce that Qubes 1.0 has finally been released!

Generally Qubes OS is an advanced tool for implementing Security by Isolation approach on your desktop, using domains implemented as lightweight Xen VMs. It tries to marry two contradictory goals: how to make the isolation between domains as strong as possible, mainly due to clever architecture that minimizes the amount of trusted code, and how to make this isolation as seamless and easy as possible. Again, how the user is going to take advantage of this isolation is totally left up to the user. I realize this might be a tricky part for some users and some usage scenarios, yet, on the other hand, this seems to be the most flexible and powerful approach we could provide.

Thus people should realize that by mere fact of using Qubes OS they won't become automatically more secure – it's how they are going to use it might make them significantly more secure.

We're talking about this Joanna right?

»Linux Desktop is Insecure. Period..

More distros are always welcome in my mind because it provides a variety of choices for users, that being said, she uses fear to sell her product, which doesn't exactly motivate me to check it out.