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

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.

That said:

> 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.


Da: Anastasia Tsikoza <mirkrida@gmail.com>
Inviato: lunedì 29 ottobre 2018 20:59
A: Marco Buratto - Lumit; info - Mon-K
Cc: debian-derivatives@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? 


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


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


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


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


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.

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.


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


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


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.


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.


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).


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.


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

Best wishes,
Anastasia Tsikoza
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