Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-09 Thread Gerardo
Thank you all!!! And I was just thinking to change to Linux, this was a good surprise; I`ll try to do my best with the info you gave, Keep up the good work, Gerardo On 08/10/2013 15:43, Luther Blissett wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 23:43 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-08 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 23:43 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Blibbet wrote: BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Andrew F andrewfriedman...@gmail.com wrote: BSD is great, but its does not have the same level of hardware support as Linux. That's correct, BSD has less buggy, fuller and faster support of some hardware than Linux ;) If you've got rare, fad, small, mobile or

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread Blibbet
BSD is great, but its does not have the same level of hardware support as Linux. That's correct, BSD has less buggy, fuller and faster support of some hardware than Linux ;) If you've got rare, fad, small, mobile or closed hardware, expect to have to read the hardware list of many OS before

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread Blibbet
A few minutes ago, I wrote: BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure your firmware isn't spewing packets before Linux and Tor loads. :-) I've already received

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread Johnny Carson
Gerardo: Hi, I've been using Tor in Windows for a while now, mostly for practical reasons I couldn't change the OS, but I'm thinking now it's time to change to Linux, and I'm a little lost in what particular distro I should use: * Heard a lot about Talis, but I can't use a live cd for

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Blibbet wrote: BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure your firmware isn't spewing packets before Linux and Tor

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-07 Thread adrelanos
Eugen Leitl: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Blibbet wrote: BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure your firmware isn't spewing packets before

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Martin Kepplinger
grarpamp: While everyone runs on about this or that Linux distro, don't forget there are very good Unix'es to be found in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Unlike the typical Linux distro, BSD doesn't have layer upon layer of system to user abstraction and bling. Their model is central and simple.

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 10/05/2013 11:21 PM, grarpamp wrote: While everyone runs on about this or that Linux distro, don't forget there are very good Unix'es to be found in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Unlike the typical Linux distro, BSD doesn't have layer upon layer of system to user abstraction and bling. Their

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:37 AM, mick m...@rlogin.net wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:51:03 -0400 Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu allegedly wrote: Is there a BSD based liveCD desktop? According to distrowatch, PCBSD has a live version. FreeBSD has a live cd/dvd which could be

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread adrelanos
Anthony G. Basile: On 10/05/2013 11:21 PM, grarpamp wrote: While everyone runs on about this or that Linux distro, don't forget there are very good Unix'es to be found in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Unlike the typical Linux distro, BSD doesn't have layer upon layer of system to user

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 10:27 +, adrelanos wrote: krishna e bera: On 13-10-04 09:01 PM, adrelanos wrote: * Is Ubuntu a good option as a guest (and maybe use here the TBB from time to time)? So far is the only Linux distro that I've used Ditch Ubuntu:

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sun, 2013-10-06 at 18:03 -0300, Luther Blissett wrote: Agreed. It's hard to recommend one sole GNU/Linux distro - nobody can actually know all of them and it's bound to bring flame wars -, but the safest path is to look at it's community, the principles behind the gathering, its size and

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Gerardo
Thank you all for your answers, On 06/10/2013 21:11, Luther Blissett wrote: But if your question is really which is best for Tor, tor-devs are sourcing .deb and .rpm packages, so support is probably better if you run debian, rhel or one of its many derivatives. Since I'm no to experienced,

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew F
BSD is great, but its does not have the same level of hardware support as Linux. I would go with Tails or Mint Cinnamon. Have heard good things about Whonix, but last time I checked. it was not set up for the casual user. But I am guessing it will be the set up of choice when it is further along

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-05 Thread adrelanos
krishna e bera: On 13-10-04 09:01 PM, adrelanos wrote: * Is Ubuntu a good option as a guest (and maybe use here the TBB from time to time)? So far is the only Linux distro that I've used Ditch Ubuntu: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-05 Thread Gerardo
On 05/10/2013 10:27, adrelanos wrote: krishna e bera: We don't have very secure/trustworthy/etc. operating systems yet. Thank you both for your answers, I'm at best a secure/user/wannabe ;-) but I also have the impression that there is no secure OS at all, as Adrelanos said, there is just

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-05 Thread grarpamp
While everyone runs on about this or that Linux distro, don't forget there are very good Unix'es to be found in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Unlike the typical Linux distro, BSD doesn't have layer upon layer of system to user abstraction and bling. Their model is central and simple. If you're tired

[tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-04 Thread Gerardo
Hi, I've been using Tor in Windows for a while now, mostly for practical reasons I couldn't change the OS, but I'm thinking now it's time to change to Linux, and I'm a little lost in what particular distro I should use: * Heard a lot about Talis, but I can't use a live cd for my day to day

Re: [tor-talk] best distro to use Tor

2013-10-04 Thread krishna e bera
On 13-10-04 09:01 PM, adrelanos wrote: * Is Ubuntu a good option as a guest (and maybe use here the TBB from time to time)? So far is the only Linux distro that I've used Ditch Ubuntu: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks Those problems are