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heads (lower case h) does much the same thing as Tails but without systemd or non-free software: ''heads is a GNU/Linux liveCD distribution aimed at people who

heads (lower case h) does much the same thing as Tails but without systemd or non-free software: ''heads is a GNU/Linux liveCD distribution aimed at people who like the aspect of controlling their privacy and anonymity on the Internet. You might have heard of Tails as a similar GNU/Linux distribution. heads was born as an answer to Tails, since Tails is using systemd as an init system and also contains non-free software. In heads, the init of choice is not systemd. systemd is a huge piece of software that, while being free software, has not been audited for security since its creation. Being big as it is, it is hard to do so, and as time goes, it's becoming even tougher to audit systemd. We do not aim to disrespect or get into the controversy on why systemd is a bad choice. We just do not wish to use it. Another important thing is that heads uses only free software, while Tails continues using non-free software. Non-free software can not be audited and as such cannot guarantee you security or anonymity.'' https://heads.dyne.org/about.html https://heads.dyne.org/about.html

Forbo 5y ago
A rather unfortunate name collision, at first I thought this project (targeting tamper evident attestation pre-boot) had vastly expanded its scope: https://osresearch.net/ https://osresearch.net/
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  heads vs Heads, it would seem. The names are too close for comfort, given their purposes.
hjek 5y ago
> Another important thing is that heads uses only free software, while Tails continues using non-free software. Non-free software can not be audited and as such cannot guarantee you security or anonymity. Latest version of heads is 4 years old so not sure how much security those developers can guarantee.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  It says on their page that they use latest forward patches from grsecurity.
- paskozdilar 5y ago
  Developers != Maintainers
0xdeadb00f 5y ago
I used to recommend heads instead of tails but now I can't do that anymore seeing as the latest update to their git repos was way back in march 2019. It needs an update desperately, but I think it's abandonware at this point.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  The builds seem to be from years ago, but there's a ticket in their bugtracker from 13 Sep 2021 so I'm not so sure that heads is abandonware: https://github.com/headslive/bugtracker/issues https://github.com/headslive/bugtracker/issues

Forbo 5y ago

A rather unfortunate name collision, at first I thought this project (targeting tamper evident attestation pre-boot) had vastly expanded its scope: https://osresearch.net/ https://osresearch.net/

cf100clunk 5y ago
heads vs Heads, it would seem. The names are too close for comfort, given their purposes.

hjek 5y ago

> Another important thing is that heads uses only free software, while Tails continues using non-free software. Non-free software can not be audited and as such cannot guarantee you security or anonymity. Latest version of heads is 4 years old so not sure how much security those developers can guarantee.

cf100clunk 5y ago
It says on their page that they use latest forward patches from grsecurity.
paskozdilar 5y ago
Developers != Maintainers

0xdeadb00f 5y ago

I used to recommend heads instead of tails but now I can't do that anymore seeing as the latest update to their git repos was way back in march 2019. It needs an update desperately, but I think it's abandonware at this point.

cf100clunk 5y ago
The builds seem to be from years ago, but there's a ticket in their bugtracker from 13 Sep 2021 so I'm not so sure that heads is abandonware: https://github.com/headslive/bugtracker/issues https://github.com/headslive/bugtracker/issues