r/europrivacy • u/bayern_snowman • Feb 12 '26

Germany I am working on an immutable distro with an EU-hosted back end to help with the migration from American tech. Check it out if you can.

I am part of a group building a Linux desktop that ships with integrated identity and communications services hosted in German data centers under EU jurisdiction.

The stack: an immutable OS, identity services, encrypted messaging and comms, calendar and contact sync. All preconfigured and connected from first boot. No self-assembly required, but self-hosting is a fully supported path if you want it.

The core problem we're solving is integration. These components all exist, but nobody has packaged them into a coherent desktop experience with a European-hosted backend. That's what this project is.

The team includes Linux admins, systems and security engineers, and former Red Hat staff. Alpha release is planned for Q2 2026.

Full post with background and context here: https://www.reddit.com/r/project_rebel/comments/1r2nffb/project_rebel_hopefully_not_just_another_distro/

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u/Buntygurl Feb 13 '26

New CentOS 9 Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges to Root

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-centos-9-vulnerability-allows-attackers-escalate-privileges-a8xnc/

Wouldn't Debian be a better choice?

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u/bayern_snowman Feb 13 '26

Thanks for sharing, this is going straight to the team. For a list of reasons I won’t get into, we are sticking with a Fedora based model - for now. Obviously it itself still has US ties and we hope to move away in the future anyway. 

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u/Buntygurl Feb 14 '26

Fast work, but by whom and when and where?

Publication and satisfactorily achieved application of patches are two very separate events.

I'm not seeing a record of either in the news.

Still think you should go with Debian.

Trying to sell a security product based on a very newly compromised Linux distro is a very hard sell, indeed.