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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.

Our take

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.

GitHub at a glance
secureblue/secureblue
Stars
980
-1 this week
Last commit
1d ago
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License
Apache-2.0
Latest release
v4.9.2
9d ago
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secureblue license, in plain English
Apache-2.0
Permissive

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.

Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.