This is a developer preview of the Tails operating system for the
Thinkpad X13s.

Please understand that this is what it is: again, a developer
preview. A lot of stuff is expected to be broken (such as audio and
the battery indicator), and no security guarantees can be placed on
the OS, first and foremost because the Tails project was not involved
in any stage of this port.

The code for building the image is hosted at [1] in the wip/x13s
branch. The latter will be rebased continuously on Tails' stable
branch until it reaches a stable enough state.

Since Tails' Debian archive snapshots do not contain arm64 packages,
and since the code that manages selecting these snapshots is quite
involved [2], instead of writing a patch to point the image builder
back to the official Debian archive, to build the images I'm
hijacking my DNS resolver. In more detail, I point the domain names
[3] and [4] to a webserver running nginx with the configuration at
[5], which redirects some URLs back to Tails, others back to Debian,
and others still back to Tor Project's Debian archive.

If you find bugs and are willing to do so, feel free to report them
at [1].

If you are a Raspberry Pi or an Apple Silicon user you may be
interested in the respective ports, which have been in development
for much longer and are thus much more mature than the port to the
X13s. You will find images at [6] and development (wip/asahi and
wip/raspi) and tagged (6.x/asahi and 6.x/raspi) branches at [1].

For a history of the port to arm64 see [7].


NoisyCoil <noisycoil@tutanota.com>


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[1] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/NoisyCoil/tails
[2] And, TBH, since I'm lazy
[3] time-based.snapshots.deb.tails.boum.org
[4] tagged.snapshots.deb.tails.boum.org
[5] https://tails.noisycoil.dev/tails-deb-archive-nginx.conf
[6] https://mega.nz/folder/BrJFGQyR#8rsN06I_pC_YV6spqATeBA
[7] https://lists.autistici.org/thread/20240716.200057.625e54b6.en.html