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| author | Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> | 2019-02-06 17:16:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2019-02-11 11:58:56 +0000 |
| commit | a00518a3c419be5c299ed7ac53bb689f9e63899b (patch) | |
| tree | e07527c401b3716c8516edd7cbedb1dc1ecbaea7 | |
| parent | 8b9768effe5d64306f960b80b108a7783fbe522d (diff) | |
| download | coreboot-a00518a3c419be5c299ed7ac53bb689f9e63899b.tar.xz | |
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>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/31257
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/distributions.md | 13 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/distributions.md b/Documentation/distributions.md index 53fbf8677e..fea29e7cb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/distributions.md +++ b/Documentation/distributions.md @@ -66,3 +66,16 @@ set of devices, and uses SeaBIOS as the payload to support Legacy BIOS booting. 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. |