Making our own linux images

From Gender and Tech Resources

Avoiding lock-ins

All live CD/DVD's focused on anonymity that use tor are based on debian. The debian branch currently suffers from the systemd lock-in.

Candidates

Distro Default installer Init Graphical installation process Boots Default package management Security applications Minimalist applications
voidlinux, independent distribution runit,uedev CD/DVD and LiveCD xbps
devuan, debian overlay sysvinit,vdev CD/DVD apt

Emergency Live USB

A minimalist Live USB for emergencies, adapted to our needs. For practice three versions: One version using tor, another with i2p, and one to be determined (for in "cut off" national internets). After that, on demand, based on the likely emergency parameters in local threat models made by gendersec people.

Candidates

Distro Default installer Init Graphical installation process Boots Default package management Security applications Minimalist applications
liberté linux, gentoo based USB none see Liberté linux, tails, whonix, freepto

Installing test environments

virtualbox

For installing and basic configuration see Linux virtualisation:virtualbox.

vagrant

Installing candidates

devuan in vagrant with virtualbox

http://devuan.org/

voidlinux in virtualbox

http://www.voidlinux.eu/

Applications

Running *only* what we need while avoiding lock-ins:

Basic security

See growing list of security applications

Minimalist applications

See growing list of minimalist applications

Test driven development

Hostile environment

National internet

Making gendersec images

Live USB

Live CD/DVD

Ova

For chaining

For testing and image development

Resources

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