Re: Nice testing procedure

"I'm really waiting for the day where your computer can be in either "usage" or a minimal "maintenance" mode and only in maintenance mode can you do updates, change bootloaders, play with critical files, etc"

If you want something like that try using a Linux/BSD variant setup to mount /sbin, /etc, /usr/sbin, and others as read only when in "usage" mode and read/write when in "maintenance" mode.

Or for for added security you could use a device with a physical read only switch for the drive/partition that holds those core parts. For standard user "usage" you only need write access to a /home/, /var, and couple of others. It's been a while, but I'm sure a quick google will confirm what can be mounted read only.

Used to run a firewall off of an old P1 with Debian running off of a CD but with /var mounted on a drive.