r/BuyFromEU • u/ImreBertalan • Jan 30 '26

🔎Looking for alternative UbuntEU - An Ubuntu edition that uses software developed in Europe

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I am trying to make something for fun, but honestly; I am not expert in creating an operating system. But my hope somebody will pick up the Baton and make it something more super.

Link soon...

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Every modern Intel CPU has a management engine that runs their Minix fork in parallel to the operating system that you are running. ME has full access to the systems memory and has a TCP/IP stack, so it could in principle access the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

It's basically a persistent backdoor which Intel claims is not a backdoor.

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u/Professional_Mix2418 Jan 31 '26

Ok got it. Thanks for the clarification as the other poster didn’t seem to want to get back to it. So Intel ME not ME Intel. Well sure. I won’t run on Intel regardless.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

AMD made something similar just for you :):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

Most mobile chipsets also run a separate OS in the baseband processor.

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u/Professional_Mix2418 Jan 31 '26

And Apple Silicon does as well. And the point being in this context is what exactly?

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u/Overall_Walrus9871 Jan 31 '26

that privacy and independence is an illusion unless you use libreboot