Regata OS warning

Due to inappropriate behavior of a new user, the thread regarding Regata OS had to be closed.

Nevertheless, I took the trouble to take a closer look at this “operating system”. Here are a few reasons why this “operating system” is a very bad copy of openSUSE with major security issues and more. It is “maintained” by one guy. And “maintaining” means in this case, removing repos with security updates and adding countless not matching and untested repos. But see yourself…

test@test-pc:~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Regata OS"
VERSION="23"
ID=regataos
ID_LIKE="regataos"
VERSION_ID="23"
PRETTY_NAME="Regata OS 23 Honeycomb"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:regataos:honeycomb:23"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.regataos.com/"
HOME_URL="http://www.regataos.com/"
test@test-pc:~> 

The repo list:

test@test-pc:~> zypper lr -d
#  | Alias             | Name              | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                  | Service
---+-------------------+-------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | emulator          | emulator          | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators/15.5/                           | 
 2 | games             | games             | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/15.5/                               | 
 3 | games-tools       | games-tools       | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/15.5/                        | 
 4 | gnome_apps        | gnome_apps        | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/15.5/                         | 
 5 | graphics          | graphics          | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/15.5/                            | 
 6 | hardware          | hardware          | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/15.5/                            | 
 7 | leap_15.5         | leap_15.5         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.5/repo/oss/                       | 
 8 | leap_15.5_updates | leap_15.5_updates | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.5/oss/                                  | 
 9 | mozilla           | mozilla           | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/               | 
10 | multimedia-apps   | multimedia-apps   | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/15.5/                    | 
11 | multimedia-libs   | multimedia-libs   | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/15.5/                    | 
12 | non-oss           | non-oss           | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.5/repo/non-oss/                   | 
13 | nvidia            | nvidia            | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/                                     | 
14 | packman           | packman           | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/                  | 
15 | plasmaregataos    | plasmaregataos    | Yes     | (  ) No   | Yes     |   98     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/plasmaregataos/15.5/                | 
16 | printing          | printing          | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   98     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/15.5/                            | 
17 | python-backports  | python-backports  | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python:/backports/15.5/ | 
18 | regataos_23       | regataos_23       | Yes     | (  ) No   | Yes     |   98     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/regataos/15.5/                      | 
19 | security_chipcard | security_chipcard | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/chipcard/15.5/                  | 
20 | videoregataos     | videoregataos     | Yes     | (  ) No   | Yes     |   98     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/videoregataos/15.5/                 | 
21 | wayland           | wayland           | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Wayland/15.5/                        | 
22 | xorg              | xorg              | Yes     | (  ) No   | No      |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/             | 
test@test-pc:~> 

  • it uses the base Leap 15.5 OSS repo
  • it does not have the SLE and backport repo, and misses security fixes due to this!
  • it is missing the non-OSS update repo and misses security fixes due to this!
  • it uses home repos
  • it uses Tumbleweed repos on a Leap system
  • it uses an unbelievable mess of mixed and unecessary repos…
  • auto refresh disabled
  • GPG check disabled

Never seen such a mess before. Nobody with a basic understanding of system stability, integrety and security would ever use such a “operating system”.

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It’s the first time I ear about RegataOS so I wanted to visit their website using the links provided in your cat /etc/os-release command but the regataos.com domain expired three days ago … no luck, regataos.com.br seems to work … don’t know why they didn’t put this domain instead since it seems to be the one that they have advertised everywhere for at least two years …

Anyway, thanks it was informative.