On 03/18/2013 04:21 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> On 15 March 2013, at 17:32, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >>> >>> If you use the Gentoo hardened Tinfoil Linux you will need lots of ram >>> and wait ages to boot but firefox will just pop up. >> >> I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement. Could you possibly explain, >> please? > > It's one of Blueness projects based on Hardened Gentoo. It loads into > ram at boot (you need something like 4 gig of ram) which takes ages > from dvd but could be from an ssd/hdd (defeating half the point > without a ro switch though). It can update from the net once booted too. > > Once done everythings in ram so firefox can literally pop up like a > web advert upon execution. >
In other words, it's a distribution designed to not allow persistent storage that might possibly be poisoned, and instead get much of its security-conscious code updated over the network. The "just pops up" being referred to simply comes from everything being loaded into the kernel file cache before you can do anything with the system. (Frankly, this sounds quite nice for kiosk environments.)
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