Look, no patches! Why Chainguard OS might be the most secure Linux ever

Roland W. Kunz/Getty Images LONDON -- When I met up with my open-source buddy Dustin Kirkland, VP of engineering at Chainguard, at KubeCon Europe, he said he had me to thank for his company's new Linux distribution, Chainguard OS. Why? In my May 2024 story about kernel security, I'd said all distros had been doing Linux security wrong. (That was the conclusion of a CIQ study, Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and top Linux developer Kees Cook.) "A light bulb went off," Kirkland told me, "and I realized, holy cow, this is the piece that I was missing, as we've built our product around hardened containers, not virtual machines, not a full distro." Also: 5 best Linux distros for staying anonymous - when a VPN isn't enough Earlier, the Kirkland, Wash.-based secure container company had released Wolfi, an "undistribution" with all the software you need for a container except Linux. Lately, though, Chainguard had considered building its own secure enterprise Linux. But, ... Read full article.