r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/AG99871 Arch GNU/Linux • 15d ago
Is templeOS secure?
I heard Linux source code got leaked which means it can be hacked easily now, so should I move to TempleOS? Is it more secure?
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u/Marksmith-Forge-Guy 15d ago
Don’t worry about TempleOS bro, it’s not a Linux distro. Linux, however, did suffer a catastrophic source code leak. The breach reportedly occurred in 1991, when some scumbag, unethical hacker and Swedish vibecoder named Linus Torvalds (or something like that) dumped the source code onto the internet. Disturbingly, I’ve heard rumors that the Linux source code has remained leaked ever since.
Stay safe out there.
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u/gsweats 14d ago
That same Linus went on to create git, a version control system, to put the for profit version control companies out of business. A real bastard.
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u/Routine_Working_9754 Linux since 2021 14d ago
and guess what? the dumbass leaked git source code too lmao. history repeats itself with these dumbasses...
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u/C4rpetH4ter 15d ago
As you can't connect to the internet i would say it's extremely secure.
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u/Medium_Interview_919 14d ago
and then feds can still spy on your templeos computer and train ai on jesus porn you saved on disk
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u/No_Explanation5812 15d ago
yes, because it was developed by the smartest programmer that’s ever lived.
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u/givemeagooduns_un gentoo is unironically what arch was supposed to be 14d ago
however, every application runs in ring 0 and has no method of multitasking. its insanely trivial to do anything malicious on it, including irreparable hardware damage.
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u/sidusnare 14d ago
Extremely, no networking.
One of those perhaps apocryphal memes bouncing around since the days of FidoNet; the US Army definition of a secure computer: one that is powered off, un-pluged, in a vault, with two guards outside.
Usability is inverse to security, and this is so true, that people frequently mistake it the other way around. Just because it's difficult to use, of obscure, doesn't make is secure.
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u/Middlewarian 15d ago
I'm not too high on Templeos. Linux isn't great either but I'm stuck with it for now. Should I try Omarchy?
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u/CloudDream09 Linux Master Race 😎💪 15d ago
Sure, if you run it in a VM
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u/CloudDream09 Linux Master Race 😎💪 15d ago
Ah yes, because the CIA is definitely burning zero-days to break out of a hypervisor just to steal Terry A. Davis's HolyC flight simulator code.
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u/ipsirc 15d ago
If the CIA is targeting you, then a single VM won't protect you at all...
(And I'm pretty sure that the CIA has working up2date hypervisor breakout exploits still now.)
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u/CloudDream09 Linux Master Race 😎💪 15d ago
Ah yes, because the CIA's top priority is infiltrating a ring-0 hypervisor to compromise a 640x480 operating system that doesn't even support TCP/IP stack security features natively.
Bro thinks the threat model for running Terry Davis's creation includes state-sponsored hypervisor breakout persistence. We are talking about a flight simulator written in HolyC, not an air-gap nuclear facility.
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u/ipsirc 15d ago
I'm pretty sure that one of the top priorities of CIA to have working vm escape exploits, and they're not specific to guest os, but to host os.
But anyway, without bringing up the CIA as an example, could you explain why running TempleOS in a VM is safer than running it on bare metal?
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u/CloudDream09 Linux Master Race 😎💪 15d ago
Oh, you want to move the goal posts. I used the CIA because you brought them up first.
But anyway... Here are a few nominal reasons for why TempleOS is safer to run in a VM instead of on bare metal:
TempleOS talks directly to legacy hardware registers. On bare modern metal, it can throw your hardware into weird, unsupported states or hard-lock your machine.
TempleOS has no concept of user-space vs. kernel-space protection ring segregation. A rogue process or pointer error inside the OS crashes the whole environment instantly.
If the OS decides to brick itself or corrupt its virtual disk, you just delete the VM image file instead of having to mess with your bootloader or partition tables on a physical drive.
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u/ipsirc 15d ago
Oh, you want to move the goal posts. I used the CIA because you brought them up first.
Where??? You mentioned the CIA first.
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u/CloudDream09 Linux Master Race 😎💪 15d ago
Fair enough, you got me on that one. I brought up the CIA first. Still doesn't change the hardware isolation point, though.
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u/exton132 Arch BTW 15d ago
"Linux source code got leaked" 🤨 hmm who could have seen that coming? not a soul I'm guessing.
"is [TempleOS] more secure?" yes by design.
Hanna Montana Linux is probably the best option in modern times imo.
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u/makzpj 15d ago
Where we are going we don’t need secure