CLIP OS

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CLIP OS
Developer Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information
Stable release
5.0
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Type Security,
License GNU LGPL v2.1+ [1] [2]
Website clip-os.org

CLIP OS is a Linux-based operating system created by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency of France. [1] [2] The aim is to produce a hardened operating system to secure sensitive information which meets [3] the needs of the French Administration. [1]

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History

CLIP OS has been in development since before 2008. [1] [2] In September 2018, ANSSI released two version of CLIP OS to the public: a stable version 4, and an in-development version 5. [2] [1]

System overview

CLIP OS is based on the Hardened Gentoo variant of Gentoo Linux. [4] The developers have noted that whilst it has similar aims to Qubes OS, the environment isolation mechanism is different. [3] Further, administrators on a CLIP OS system will not be able to access user data, unlike a Qubes-based system.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "CLIP OS – Open Source secured operating system (Press release)". ANSSI (in French). ANSSI. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cimpanu, Catalin (20 September 2018). "French cyber-security agency open-sources CLIP OS, a security hardened OS". ZDNet. ZDNet. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 CLIP OS development team. "The CLIP OS Project". CLIP OS. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Architecture — CLIP OS 5.0.0_alpha1 documentation". docs.clip-os.org. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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