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So you trust that Ubuntu isn't somehow backdoored?

Or does it not matter because the Kernel or the hardware are compromised anyway?

Why should Ubuntu have a backdoor and Gentoo, for example, not? Ubuntu's code is much more audited.

If we get paranoid, the real problem is the hardware. Most hardware manufacturers are beholden to the NSA and the Chinese government, and there is a lot of documentation about backdoors in the hardware exploited by the NSA.

There is a misconception about Linux distributions here. Why are Ubuntu or Red Hat bad? Because they make money? Would Linux be sustainable if it didn't make money?

Free software doesn't mean you can't make money.

Red Hat is the distribution that brings the most innovations to Linux, for example.

Sytemd is another matter, but that's another book.

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lifeisjustreplication 3mo ago

> Why should Ubuntu have a backdoor and Gentoo, for example not?

Well, because of incentives maybe?

Because whoever wants access will get more gain for their effort if they target a system that is widely used.

When we only look at the distro level, backdooring Ubuntu (respectively some Ubuntu specific library/package) gives access to more computers than backdooring Gentoo/Arch/SUSE does.