#25 INTERVIEW: Alyssa Ross (of Spectrum Fame)

postmarketOS Podcast

What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who is at the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot of interesting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure!

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Spectrum — a step towards usable secure computing

  • Using packages from NixOS
  • Using virtio-fs
  • Inspired by Qubes OS
  • Participating in Spectrum
  • Alyssa accepts donations

• pma#1596: concept for privilege separation in postmarketOS

• pmOS principles, user facing

• pma#1133: enable zram swap by default for some (or all?) devices

• How many users do we have? Martijn was curious as well

• VDO.ninja (source)

Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi