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'Unbreakable Linux'
Zadig writes "It appears as if Dell, Oracle, and Red Hat CEOs have decided to make 'Unbreakable Linux'. Could a giant arise amidst today's insecure and constantly patched linux world that could hold the title of Unbreakable Linux? I doubt it, but it will be fun to try, what are your thoughts?" There's a similar article on CNet.
I am sure we have all received spam email that contained a phrase "THIS EMAIL IS NOT SPAM!!!" What is the first thing that this statement tells us? Simply that email is in fact spam and probably contains some sort of nonsense gimmic, lies, or scam. Why do spammers put lines like these in their spam? Because in some people, this tends to create a feeling of excitement or levity that for the moment, gives them cause to evaluate the content of the email.
With this in mind, enter "Unbreakable Linux". The first thing you should get from this title is that it is most definitely a gimmic. Immediately, you should recognize that the opposite is true to an extreme. Oracle and whatever marketing department is driving this product not on quality, but with reliance upon the mentality that such an impressive title gives. Oracle database was also claimed to be unbreakable. Goes to show how much they know about inpenitrable security. Aside from that, a distro like this is bound to contain all sorts of proprietary foolishness that is not up for community review. It will likely lack the "many eyes" principle that makes other open source software so rock solid against attacks and failures. This combined with the product's immaturity in the face of tried and true distros from other vendors, you certainly have a very breakable and likely to be broken operating system.
So what we have here is spam on a huge scale. We're sure to have this nonsense fired at us for months to come because Oracle have deep pockets full of cash. Hopefully, most people will ignore ploys like these and stick to distros that are mature and need more usage to improve (Debian, RedHat, et al).
Why bother.