How to make Linux more trustworthy | Linux Today

How to make Linux more trustworthy

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 19, 2016

Alarmed at the prospect of being unable to trust all 24,000-plus Debian packages, most of which are built on package maintainers’ laptops, the Debian Project has pushed hard over the last three years to make as many packages reproducibly buildable as possible. As of this writing, 91 percent have achieved that goal, and the project hopes to hit 100 percent in 2017.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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