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Ankur Bangla
Ankur Bangla was a desktop Linux distribution localised into Bengali. The project's earlier versions were based on Mandriva Linux, but later it switched to Ubuntu as its preferred base.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2017-10-25 |
NEW • Development Release: Qubes OS 4.0 RC2 |
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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Qubes OS 4.0, a Fedora-based desktop Linux distribution with a strong focus on system security. This is achieved by isolating different tasks into separate virtual domains: "We're pleased to announce the second release candidate for Qubes 4.0. As usual, this release candidate includes numerous bug fixes over the previous one. Two of the most important changes are: improved PCI passthrough with sys-net and sys-usb running in HVM mode by default - with this change, we've officially achieved our Qubes 4.0 goal of having all qubes running in HVM mode by default for enhanced security; Whonix templates are back - we've fixed various blocking issues and the Whonix templates are available in the default installer once again. There were two primary reasons for the substantial delay of this release. The first was our discovery of the security issue that would come to be known as XSA-237." See the release announcement and release notes for further information and technical details. Download: Qubes-R4.0-rc2-x86_64.iso (4,430MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| Qubes OS is a security-oriented, Fedora-based desktop Linux distribution whose main concept is "security by isolation" by using domains implemented as lightweight Xen virtual machines. It attempts to combine two contradictory goals: how to make the isolation between domains as strong as possible, mainly due to clever architecture that minimises the amount of trusted code, and how to make this isolation as seamless and easy as possible.
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| 2019-01-09 |
Distribution Release: Qubes OS 4.0.1 |
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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.0.1, an updated version of the project's security-focused Linux distribution which allows users to "compartmentalise" computing tasks into isolated compartments called qubes. This new release is mostly a bug-fix and security update and is recommended for all new Qubes installations: "We are pleased to announce the release of Qubes 4.0.1. This is the first stable point release of Qubes 4.0. It includes many updates over the initial 4.0 release, in particular: all 4.0 dom0 updates to date, including a lot of bug fixes and improvements for GUI tools; Fedora 29 TemplateVM; Debian 9 TemplateVM; Whonix 14 Gateway and Workstation TemplateVMs; Linux kernel 4.14. If you're currently using an up-to-date Qubes 4.0 installation (including updated Fedora 29, Debian 9, and Whonix 14 templates), then your system is already equivalent to a Qubes 4.0.1 installation. No action is needed. Similarly, if you're currently using a Qubes 4.0.1 release candidate and you've followed the standard procedure for keeping it up-to-date, then your system is equivalent to a 4.0.1 stable installation." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional information. Download: Qubes-R4.0.1-x86_64.iso (4,476MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, installation guide, pkglist). |
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| 2018-03-29 |
Distribution Release: Qubes OS 4.0 |
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Andrew David Wong has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.0, a major new update of the project's security-oriented desktop Linux distribution based on Fedora 25: "After nearly two years in development and countless hours of testing, we're pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.0. Version 4.0 includes several fundamental improvements to the security and functionality of Qubes OS: the Qubes Admin API; Qubes Core Stack version 3; fully virtualized virtual machines for enhanced security; multiple, flexible Disposable VM templates; a more expressive, user-friendly Qubes RPC policy system; a powerful new VM volume manager that makes it easy to keep VMs on external drives; enhanced TemplateVM security via split packages and network interface removal; more secure backups with scrypt for stronger key derivation and enforced encryption; re-written command-line tools with new options." See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download the installation DVD image from here: Qubes-R4.0-x86_64.iso (4,369MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, installation guide, pkglist). |
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| 2018-02-01 |
Development Release: Qubes OS 4.0 RC4 |
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Andrew David Wong has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for Qubes OS 4.0, un upcoming new version of the project's Fedora-based, security-oriented desktop Linux distribution: "We're pleased to announce the fourth release candidate for Qubes 4.0. This release contains important safeguards against the Spectre and Meltdown attacks, as well as bug fixes for many of the issues discovered in the previous release candidate. A full list of the Qubes 4.0 issues closed so far is available here. The Qubes VM Manager is back by popular demand. The returning Qubes Manager will be slightly different from the 3.2 version. Specifically, it will not duplicate functionality that is already provided by the new 4.0 widgets. Specific examples include attaching and detaching block devices, attaching and detaching the microphone, and VM CPU usage. In addition, the default TemplateVMs have been upgraded to Fedora 26 and Debian 9." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: Qubes-R4.0-rc4-x86_64.iso (4,350MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2017-11-28 |
Development Release: Qubes OS 4.0 RC3 |
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Andrew David Wong has announced that the third release candidate for Qubes OS 4.0 is now ready for testing. Qubes OS is a Fedora-based, security-oriented desktop Linux distribution with a strong focus on system security; this is achieved through what the project calls "compartmentalisation", a feature that allows users to separate the various parts of their desktop tasks into securely isolated compartments called qubes. Much of the work prior to this release concentrated on bug fixing, rather than on adding new features: "We're pleased to announce the third release candidate for Qubes 4.0. Our goal for this release candidate is to improve the stability and reliability of Qubes 4.0, so we've prioritized fixing known bugs over introducing new features. Many of the bugs discovered in our previous release candidate are now resolved. A full list of the Qubes 4.0 issues closed so far is available here. Current users of Qubes 4.0-rc2 can upgrade in-place by downloading the latest updates from the testing repositories in both dom0 and TemplateVMs." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: Qubes-R4.0-rc3-x86_64.iso (4,482MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2017-07-31 |
Development Release: Qubes OS 4.0 RC1 |
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Qubes OS is a desktop operating system which strongly isolates different tasks into separate domains to reduce the consequences of any one application being compromised. The Qubes OS project has released the first release candidate for Qubes OS 4.0, which features a big overhaul of the core Qubes technology. "No doubt this release marks a major milestone in Qubes OS development. The single most import undertaking which sets this release apart, is the complete rewrite of the Qubes Core Stack. We have a separate set of posts detailing the changes (Why/What/How), and the first post is planned to be released in the coming 2 weeks. This new Core Stack allows to easily extend the Qubes Architecture in new directions, allowing us to finally build (in a clean way) lots of things we’ve wanted for years, but which would have been too complex to build on the 'old' Qubes infrastructure. The new Qubes Admin API, which we introduced in a recent post, is a prime example of one such feature. (Technically speaking, we’ve neatly put the Admin API at the heart of the new Qubes Core Stack so that it really is part of the Core Stack, not merely an 'application' built on top of it.)" Further details, including new features, can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: Qubes-R4.0-rc1-x86_64.iso (3,303MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2016-09-29 |
Distribution Release: Qubes OS 3.2 |
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Joanna Rutkowska has announced the release of Qubes OS 3.2, a new stable release of the Fedora-based desktop Linux distribution whose main concept is "security by isolation" by using domains implemented as lightweight Xen virtual machines. From the release announcement: "I'm happy to announce that today we're releasing Qubes OS 3.2. This is an incremental improvement over the 3.1 version that we released earlier this year. A lot of work went into making this release more polished, more stable and easier to use than our previous releases. One major feature that we've improved upon in this release is our integrated management infrastructure, which was introduced in Qubes 3.1. Whereas before it was only possible to manage whole VMs, it is now possible to manage the insides of VMs as well. The principal challenge we faced was how to allow such a tight integration of the management engine software (for which we use Salt) with potentially untrusted VMs without opening a large attack surface on the (complex) management code." Download the new Qubes OS release from here: Qubes-R3.2-x86_64.iso (4,050MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2016-03-09 |
Distribution Release: Qubes OS 3.1 |
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Joanna Rutkowska has announced the launch of Qubes OS 3.1, a new stable release of the Qubes operating system which enforces strong isolation between tasks. Version 3.1 of the security-oriented project features a new management system that centrally controls Qubes configuration: "The major new architectural feature of this release has been the introduction of Qubes Management infrastructure, which is based on popular Salt management software. In Qubes 3.1 this management stack makes it possible to conveniently control system-wide Qubes configuration using centralized, declarative statements. Declarative is a key word here: it makes creating advanced configurations significantly simpler (the user or administrator needs only to specify what they want to get, rather than how they want to get it). This has already allowed us to improve our installation wizard (firstboot) so that it now offers the user ability to easily select various options to pre-create some useful configurations, such as e.g. Whonix or USB-hosting VMs." The new release of Qubes OS also supports booting on machines with UEFI and introduces additional hardware support for a range of video cards. The release announcement and release notes have additional details. Download: Qubes-R3.1-x86_64.iso (4,754MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-01 |
Distribution Release: Qubes OS 3.0 |
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Joanna Rutkowska has announced the availability of a new release of Qubes OS, a Fedora based platform which isolates a user's tasks for improved security. The new release, Qubes OS 3.0, includes a number of important improvements over the 2.0 release. Among the new features are separating Qubes from the underlying hypervisor (which may allow Qubes to use alternative hypervisors in the future), Debian templates and an upgrade from Xen 4.1 to 4.4. "New features since 2.0: HAL (Hypervisor Abstraction Layer) - based on libvirt, opens a whole new possibilities of using different hypervisors. Currently Qubes OS uses Xen. Xen 4.4 - many new features, but for us the most important is much more mature libxl tool stack. Qrexec 3 - greatly improved performance by using direct VM-VM connections and bigger buffers. Debian templates get official support. Whonix templates. Build system improvements - especially support for distribution-specific plugins (makes supporting multiple distributions much easier) and building templates using DispVM. Automated tests - makes much easier to find bugs." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and the release notes. Download: Qubes-R3.0-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,533MB, SHA256, pkglist).
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