From a00518a3c419be5c299ed7ac53bb689f9e63899b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Kepplinger Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:16:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: add the Heads project to the list of distributions As this is a unique, actively maintained project, we should probably point there too. The text is just copied parts of the http://osresearch.net/ website. Change-Id: Ib2a8e4b28bc94c5dc6a1ae9388f96ad2c502ccab Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/31257 Reviewed-by: Angel Pons Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) --- Documentation/distributions.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/distributions.md b/Documentation/distributions.md index 53fbf8677e..fea29e7cb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/distributions.md +++ b/Documentation/distributions.md @@ -66,3 +66,16 @@ set of devices, and uses SeaBIOS as the payload to support Legacy BIOS booting. His firmware images are significantly older, and not actively maintained or supported, but worth a look if you need Legacy Boot support and is not available via Mr Chromebox's firmware. + +### Heads + +[Heads](http://osresearch.net) is an open source custom firmware and OS +configuration for laptops and servers that aims to provide slightly better +physical security and protection for data on the system. Unlike +[Tails](https://tails.boum.org/), which aims to be a stateless OS that leaves +no trace on the computer of its presence, Heads is intended for the case where +you need to store data and state on the computer. + +Heads is not just another Linux distribution – it combines physical hardening +of specific hardware platforms and flash security features with custom coreboot +firmware and a Linux boot loader in ROM.