secureblue is a security-hardened immutable Linux OS built on Fedora Atomic Desktops. It ships as OCI bootable container images and applies kernel hardening, a hardened memory allocator from GrapheneOS, and a hardened Chromium browser called Trivalent.
secureblue
secureblue pulls the best ideas from GrapheneOS’s hardening work and transplants them to the desktop Linux context: hardened_malloc, proactive kernel parameter lockdown, and an immutable base that cannot be silently modified. It sits on Fedora Atomic, so SELinux and atomic updates come for free. The project is candid that desktop Linux’s security architecture has real structural limits it cannot fully overcome - this is as close as you get on Linux without those caveats. Aimed squarely at users who already want Linux and want the most secure variant of it; not a beginner distro, and some applications work less smoothly under the tighter restrictions.
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Permissive like MIT, with an explicit patent grant and a requirement to flag any changes you make.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- License and copyright notice
- State changes
Does not provide
- Trademark use
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Permissive licensing lets anyone reuse this, including inside closed products. That is freedom to build on, but no guarantee that downstream copies stay open.
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