Re: [tor-talk] Pirate Linux - First Release
It's not meant to be lightweight. It's meant to be a general purpose system that one would install on a hard drive, with a balance between privacy and usability, as well as various options for increasing or decreasing privacy based on personal needs. I want to eventually target newcomers to Linux. The 2.96 GB ISO contains: 1) The alternate Ubuntu installer with the standard Ubuntu (64bit) packages (Alternate installer is needed for full disk encryption). 2) Piratepack (standard & binary) with all dependencies (required & recommended) not in the default preinstalled Ubuntu packages (so that the full installation can be made offline). 3) The Ubuntu squashfs live image (64bit) with the binary version of piratepack plus all its dependencies (required & recommended). 4) Liberte Linux 5) Tails Linux That's why the ISO is so large. But, this can easily fit on a DVD or 4GB usb stick, so I don't see how it's a problem. And no I'm not using OpenBSD for now, since I think Debian/Ubuntu is much more accessible for newcomers. As for design document, I still didn't write any formal documentation, but the source code is all out there, and the features list briefly explains all the modifications done to Ubuntu. I'm not sure what you mean by "download helper", but to download this ISO, bittorrent is the current method I use. Thanks for the input On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, M Robinson wrote: > On 1/21/2012 3:13 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 02:33:05AM -0700, aka...@gmail.com wrote 3.0K > bytes in 57 lines about: > > : This is a project I have been working on for the Pirate Party of > Canada. > > : You can see the feature list and download links at > http://piratelinux.org. > > : The video walk-through is at http://youtu.be/s9kj4pziojQ. > > > > This iso is 2.96GB? Jeez. I don't see any design document, or something > > that details what changes are made to standard ubuntu and why. > > > I'm a regular OS Stuntman, but this seems like a bloated slipstream—with > all due respect. > > Which download helper are you using? > Thanks for the Bloody Vikings, I've never heard of it. > > No one ever uses OpenBSD for live security disks... > > -- > GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). > > Extensible, customizable text editor---GNU Emacs; Where's yours? > > > ___ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] Pirate Linux - First Release
On 1/21/2012 3:13 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 02:33:05AM -0700, aka...@gmail.com wrote 3.0K bytes > in 57 lines about: > : This is a project I have been working on for the Pirate Party of Canada. > : You can see the feature list and download links at http://piratelinux.org. > : The video walk-through is at http://youtu.be/s9kj4pziojQ. > > This iso is 2.96GB? Jeez. I don't see any design document, or something > that details what changes are made to standard ubuntu and why. > I'm a regular OS Stuntman, but this seems like a bloated slipstream—with all due respect. Which download helper are you using? Thanks for the Bloody Vikings, I've never heard of it. No one ever uses OpenBSD for live security disks... -- GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). Extensible, customizable text editor---GNU Emacs; Where's yours? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] Pirate Linux - First Release
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 02:33:05AM -0700, aka...@gmail.com wrote 3.0K bytes in 57 lines about: : This is a project I have been working on for the Pirate Party of Canada. : You can see the feature list and download links at http://piratelinux.org. : The video walk-through is at http://youtu.be/s9kj4pziojQ. This iso is 2.96GB? Jeez. I don't see any design document, or something that details what changes are made to standard ubuntu and why. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x74ED336B ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
[tor-talk] Pirate Linux - First Release
This is a project I have been working on for the Pirate Party of Canada. You can see the feature list and download links at http://piratelinux.org. The video walk-through is at http://youtu.be/s9kj4pziojQ. Some features that are perhaps unique when compared to other distros: - Ubuntu based together with a package called "piratepack" that installs all the modifications. - The piratepack has been tested to work on Ubuntu 10+ and Debian 6. - Tor & Vidalia run in the background and you can access Vidalia from the icon on the top panel. - Tor browser uses your current firefox under a profile called "tor". - Both the Tor browser and the regular firefox get addons automatically installed (your firefox settings and history are still working as usual, it's just as if you installed the addons on top of them). - Regular Firefox addons: AdBlock Plus, Bloody Vikings, Download Helper, Ghostery, HTTPS-Everywhere. - Tor browser addons: Bloody Vikings, HTTPS-Everywhere, NoScript, Torbutton. - Tor browser automatically launches Pidgin in OTR mode connected to the oftc.net server through Tor. - Bitcoin client (both command line and graphical). - Cwallet: My own program that lets you list the private keys associated with your addresses in your wallet.dat and make a paper backup of your wallet in QR code format. Also, it checks to make sure that the keys are not corrupted. There's both a command line and graphical version. - Custom Google Homepage: Google SSL search & Pirate search, plus useful links on top. - Piratepack modifications can be enabled and disabled through a GUI controller. - You can launch the Liberte & Tails privacy enhanced distros from the boot menu. - IMPORTANT: Any binaries that piratepack installs are compiled from source automatically on installation. You don't have to trust my binaries. Of course the dependencies (such as libz1g or firefox, etc...) will not be compiled, but by default come from the standard Ubuntu/Debian repositories. Piratepack also produces a binary version of piratepack and puts it in /opt/piratepack/bin-pack. You can share this binary version with a friend or use it for yourself for installation on another machine. Of course you can also choose to install the binary version of piratepack if you don't want to wait for the compilation and you trust my signed binaries. Also, when doing updates to piratepack, you may want to read the source code first. In this case you can simply download piratepack from the piratelinux.org website instead of using the update manager. Or you can install it from the update manager and then read the source code from the cache directory /var/cache/apt/archives in order to make sure that the code is not malicious. I'm taking a break from this now to focus on other things. But, Ill try to get some small updates done from time to time and I'm keeping an eye out for the release of Ubuntu 12, and that's when the next major update will probably happen. Cheers ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
