Martin Kepplinger has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31257
Change subject: Documentation: add the Heads project to the list of distributions ......................................................................
Documentation: add the Heads project to the list of distributions
As this is a unique, actively maintained project, we should probably point there too. The text is just copied parts of the http://osresearch.net/ website.
Change-Id: Ib2a8e4b28bc94c5dc6a1ae9388f96ad2c502ccab Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger martink@posteo.de --- M Documentation/distributions.md 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/57/31257/1
diff --git a/Documentation/distributions.md b/Documentation/distributions.md index eaa61be..f73b90c 100644 --- a/Documentation/distributions.md +++ b/Documentation/distributions.md @@ -59,3 +59,15 @@ His firmware images are significantly older, and not actively maintained or supported, but worth a look if you need Legacy Boot support and is not available via Mr Chromebox's firmware. + +### Heads + +[Heads](http://osresearch.net) is an open source custom firmware and OS +configuration for laptops and servers that aims to provide slightly better +physical security and protection for data on the system. Unlike +[Tails](https://tails.boum.org/), which aims to be a stateless OS that leaves +no trace on the computer of its presence, Heads is intended for the case where +you need to store data and state on the computer. +Heads is not just another Linux distribution – it combines physical hardening +of specific hardware platforms and flash security features with custom coreboot +firmware and a Linux boot loader in ROM.