Linux

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Linux is the best in terms of anonymity and safeness
- Nursultan "Lazyman" Kim, QAZEmpire

From smartphones to cars, supercomputers to home appliances, and home desktops to White Hat quantum servers, Linux operating system (OS) is everywhere. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open-source software collaboration as its source code may be used, modified, and distributed commercially or non-commercially by anyone. Linux's family of open-source, Unix-like OS is based on the Linux kernel and typically packaged as a Linux distribution (kernel and supporting system software and libraries), many of which are in collaboration with the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation

Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux and Ubuntu, and the most popular commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux (https://t.me/RedHatDecode) and SUSE Linux Enterprise

Global Dominance

Linux was originally developed for PCs, but has since been ported to more platforms than any other OS in the world, such as:

- Linux-based Android on smartphones
- Linux kernel-based ChromeOS for Apple
- 96.4%+ of publicly available internet servers
- most mainframe computers
- only OS used on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers
- runs on PowerPC, Intel, Apple silicon processors, PDAs, video game consoles, portable music players, and mobile phones
- Linux embedded into routers, automation controls, smart home devices, video game consoles, televisions (Samsung and LG Smart TVs), cars (Tesla, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai and Toyota), and spacecraft (NASA, SpaceX)
- 95%+ of servers and desktops at major movie studios, large animation, and visual effects companies (DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Weta Digital, and Industrial Light & Magic) 
- Government users (Russia's military, Indian state of Kerala, China's Loongson processor family, Spain, France, Germany, North Korea's Red Star OS)
- major companies contributing Linux code (IBM, RedHat, Intel, Samsung, Google, AMD, Oracle, Facebook)

Programming on Linux

Most programming languages support Linux either directly or through 3rd party community based ports via GNU toolchain (GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and the GNU Build System):

- GCC provides compilers for: Ada, C, C++, Go and Fortran
- Interoperable support: PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Rust and Haskell, LLVM 
- Proprietary compilers: Intel C++ Compiler, Sun Studio, IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
- BASIC: QB64, PureBasic, Yabasic, GLBasic, Basic4GL, XBasic, wxBasic, SdlBasic, and Basic-256, as well as object oriented through Gambas, FreeBASIC, B4X, Basic for Qt, Phoenix Object Basic, NS Basic, ProvideX, Chipmunk Basic, RapidQ, Xojo
- Pascal: GNU Pascal, Free Pascal, Virtual Pascal, graphically via Lazarus, PascalABC.NET, Delphi using FireMonkey (previously through Borland Kylix)

With so much programming and interoperability available, Linux code can often become bloated and kernel tuning necessary in order to optimize performance. In the past, manual tuning was mandatory and most organizations either lacked the capable talent to facilitate it or there was too much and it was virtually impossible to perform. Recently, TikTok's parent company called ByteDance changed the game by introducing the first automation solution for kernel tuning (https://www.techspot.com/news/100918-tuning-linux-kernel-ai-brings-significant-performance-improvements.html), which dynamically adjusts the Linux internal settings based on a specific workload and hardware configuration. This AIML will eventually create the ability to have an OS that continuously self-improves and self-upgrades, or a generative OS

Hardware Support

In addition to the cutting-edge, quantum devices it supports, Linux also has a unique reputation of supporting old hardware extremely well by maintaining standardized drivers for a long time. In fact, there are several industry associations and hardware conferences devoted to maintaining and improving support for diverse hardware under Linux, such as FreedomHEC. Over time, support for all types of aged hardware has improved in Linux, resulting in any off-the-shelf purchase having a "good chance" of being compatible

This is the primary reason why RedHat's Quantum Bacon Sammich is able to reach even the small,  (https://t.me/RedHatDecode/37)"resource-constrained devices at the farthest edge (https://t.me/RedHatDecode/37)", such as weather monitors, farming equipment, etc

Linux Foundation (LF) 

This non-profit organization was founded in 2000 to support Linux development and standardize open-source software projects. Not only is it a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated, but LF is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open-source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption

After it merged with Free Standards Group in 2007, LF has since evolved beyond Linux to become a "foundation of all foundations" (or a Mother of All Foundations) that hosts a variety of projects spanning topics such as cloud, networking, blockchain, and hardware

Its most notable projects include:

- AllJoyn: allows compatible devices and applications find each other, communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of product category, platform, brand, and connection type

- Automotive Grade Linux: serves as the de facto standard for the smart connected car industry

- Cloud Foundry: governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation

- Cloud Native Computing Foundation: advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution

- Core Infrastructure Initiative: fund and support free, open-source projects critical to the functioning of the Internet

- EdgeX Foundry: framework for industrial IoT edge computing

- FRRouting: IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms

- Hyperledger: advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies

- LF AI & Data: innovation in AIML, deep learning, and data open source projects

- Linux Standard Base: standardize the software system structure

- Open Container Initiative: industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime

- OpenDaylight Project: accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in service provider, enterprise and research networks

- OpenJS Foundation: growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem

- Open Source Security Foundation: improving the security of the open-source software ecosystem

- Open Mainframe Project: encourage the use of Linux-based, open source OS on mainframe computers

- ONAP: allows end users to design, manage, and automate services and virtual functions

- OpenAPI Specification: standardized API to generate code, documentation, test cases, and more

- OPNFV: introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly

- Overture Maps Foundation: founded in 2022 by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to create interoperable open map data

- RISC-V: reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is designed to simplify coding to accomplish tasks

- seL4: only formally vetted microkernel in existence (supports extensibility and customizability, robustness including reliability and fault tolerance, protection and security), important for constructing advanced OS for pervasive systems, deep-computing systems, and huge servers, while preserving legacy compatibility

 Servo: browser engine originally developed by Mozilla (later donated to the LF in 2020) to take advantage of the memory safety properties (protection from bugs and vulnerabilities) and concurrency features (different parts of a program or algorithm executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the outcome, allowing for parallel execution) of the Rust programming language to be embedded in other applications (Stellar Soroban uses both WASM and Rust)

- Xen Project: allows multiple computer OS to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently on a single device (effectively creating bridges between different types of OS to make them interoperable with Linux)

- Yocto Project: founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies, it provides templates, tools, and methods to help create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture

- Zephyr Project: connecting resource-constrained devices under the Apache License 2.0

With all this standardization, interoperability, and enhancements to OS, security, and robustness, Linux is pushing the boundaries in a way where soon phones and tables will have the same functionality and useability as general computers as well (https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/melbourne-duo-working-on-using-linux-phones-as-general-computing-devices.html)

In addition, on 1 December 2023, Linux released a new translation layer known as Wine and Darling (https://hackaday.com/2023/12/01/wine-is-for-windows-and-darling-is-for-macos/). Wine is for Windows and Darling is for MAC, making this the interoperable bridge connecting Linux, MAC, and Windows all together on a single device through Xen Project. In short, even though Linux users account for less than 3% of the global market share, due to it's interoperability between all platforms, all devices, and now all OS, it actually has 100% market share

Bugs and Manipulations vs Extractions and Rewiring

On 30 November 2023, ElcomSoft released iOS Forensic Toolkit 8.50, a major update (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elcomsoft-introduces-the-linux-edition-of-its-forensic-ios-extraction-tool-1032862227) to the company's mobile forensic extraction tool for Apple devices. Elcomsoft's Forensic Toolkit provides forensic access to encrypted information stored in popular Apple devices and is the most advanced iOS acquisition tool on the market. This toolkit supports all possible acquisition methods from agent-based extraction to checkm8-based extraction via device RAM, and the list of supported devices will be expanded in subsequent releases. This opens a window of opportunity for experts who don't have access to a Mac, enabling true forensically sound extraction support to businesses, government, law enforcement, military, intelligence agencies, and all major accounting firms. In essence, this Forensic Toolkit will be used for both Know Your Customer (KYC) and Account Abstraction (AA) to faciliate White Hats gaining access to blacklisted accounts or wallets in order to process wealth transfer liquidity events or clawbacks

Unlike Malware, which is typically designed to steal information or damage a user's system without any need for payment, ransomware is designed to extort money from the victim before restoring their system access

On 3 December 2023, Qilin ransomware gang's VMware ESXi encryptor (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-version-of-qilin-ransomware-focuses-on-vmware-esxi/#google_vignette) was discovered and it could be one of the most advanced and customizable Linux encryptors seen to date, designed to target Linux servers. It heavily focuses on encrypting virtual machines and deleting their snapshots. Most impressively, this encryptor is built with an embedded configuration specifying the extensive customization of these configuration options and how files are encrypted on a server, such as for encrypted files, the processes to terminate, the files to encrypt or exclude, and the folders to encrypt or exclude, making this ransomware ideal for cleaning out (removing or destroying) targeted folders and files from a targeted server. This will be especially useful in applications, such as Social Media Bridges, PBFT via Servo, and used in conjunction with seL4 microkernels, Yocto Protocol, and Xen Project to fortify OS and prepare them for Q-device upgrades

Furthermore, on 4 December 2023, a 17 year long "hidden corruption bug" was finally caught and fixed using bug fix #15571 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15571) and bug fix #15615 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15615), which changes the script for seeking and clearing dirtied data (changes the way files or nodes are found and corrected/skipped/deleted) and alters the new script to validate the node against a whitelist. One utility for these Linux bug fixes is that they can be used in combination with Qilin encryptor and prettier.js file to clear existing nodes (remove ones marked on the blacklist) from Stellar's network and input approved nodes from the whitelist, thereby rewiring Stellar Consensus Protocol to sync only with White Hat vetted nodes. This same function may also be similarly applied to Stellar for revising TOML files to in order to automate the cleanup of token domains, descriptions, clearing false "scam warnings" signs, etc

All 3 use cases illustrate how recent "bugs" or "ransomware" or Linux toolkets can be applied to faciliate Stellar dex's clean up and subsequent wealth transfer per existing and future Stellar Ecosystem Proposals (SEPs)

In summary, White Hats are using Linux and Linux Foundation as the technological foundation for not only identifying, trapping, catching, and blacklisting all known and future criminals, but also for deploying the entire web of interconnected, interoperable, on-chain and off-chain, quantum ecosystems that comprise both the Quantum Stellar Financial System as well as the Intergalactic Quantum Matrix

Stellar Humanitarian Wealth Transfer:

? Passive Income Assets (https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/22968)
? Project Aurora & Ukaz (https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/21777)