On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 06:28:36AM -0800, tggrps wrote: > Thanks for the response - interesting to learn about the lacking Windows > guest support. > Do you know which specific SMEs are using Qubes OS? (e.g. specific users I > can talk to) Interested in learning more from their experience pushing it to > more than a handful of users. > > BTW - also see this article about Qubes OS (and others) that also claims > there's a big problem about hardware compatibility with Qubes OS making it > impractical for enterprises: > https://www.brianmadden.com/opinion/client-virtualization-part-2-how-client-vms-have-evolved > > Thank you! > > On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 1:23:29 PM UTC+2, unman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:23:28PM -0800, tggrps wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Did anyone try to use Qubes for enterprise use cases? e.g. for securing > > > access to sensitive resources? How did that end up? > > > > > > Last time I looked at Qubes, it didn't have enterprise manageability > > > features and required users to be familiar with Linux, which is not > > > always the case with enterprise users. The HCL is also a bit of a concern > > > as enterprise laptops might not well support Linux (audio/video/docking > > > stations/wifi/power management...). > > > > > > Details about your experience with Qubes today for enterprise users > > > (either power users or simple users) would be helpful! > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Qubes has salt stack and some features for manageability. > > Look here: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/salt > > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/06/27/qubes-admin-api > > > > It does not require *users* to be familiar with Linux, but undoubtedly > > admins do. I don't know what a power user is. > > Sensible selection from the HCL make the choices somewhat limited, but > > workable. > > I know some SMEs that use Qubes, but the sysadmins are extremely > > competent in Linux and Xen. > > The biggest blocker to widespread adoption is the somewhat sketchy > > support for Windows imo. (Win 7 support is generally good, but later?) >
Please don't top-post when mailing the list. I know the admins who use Qubes watch this list - if they want to chip in, they will. I'd seen that article. I didnt find it particularly useful. I dont think it's fair to say that Qubes has a problem with hardware compatibility, any more than Linux has such a problem. As I said, choosing the hardware is important. If you commit to Qubes, then its simple to find hardware that works well. Probably not the latest processors/mboards, but solid enterprise laptops are available and work well. It's certainly true that you cant pick *any* laptop and have a trouble free install/use, but frankly the same goes for (e.g) Debian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20190224164805.pufax65jvribmxuu%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
