https://dee.su/liberte
Wondered if anyone has been playing around with this.
Initial goals were a bootable hardened OS on a thumbdrive, so I'd acquired a 32GB specimen just in case. I also wanted to be able store a large variety of references (e-books, pdf's, etc.) on the thing, hence the size. I don't have
as many as Sigaba so it turns out I may have over-engineered the size
just a tad.
Ostensibly worked up by some Russians back when they were operating in a truly hostile environment and the term 'hacker' was an honorific. Well supported to this day. It seems pretty hardened, but pretty much plug & play although a bit of thought is good before you run the setup batch file, such as:
- Think of a strong password before you start because you will get asked this at setup, and anytime you mount the thumbdrive to boot into Linux.
- Think of how you want your regular files to look that aren't part of the OS's directory structure.
- Find out what key(s) interrupt the boot sequence of your computer so you can tell it to boot off the thumbdrive.
Turns out the OS only needs to eat up about 230MB of the drive and I left it on the 4GB model I tested, and still have plenty left for file storage, which is regular FAT32 stuff, racked & stacked how I want. The OS will look into and use those files; when in the OS that file structure is under the /boot directory. The thumbdrive can also be used conventionally when just running Windoze.
Setting it up is ridiculously easy (an attractor). Simply download the bundle, EXTRACT it (not run or open) TO the root level of the thumbdrive, run the setup.bat file that gets placed there, and you're done. Then SHUTDOWN (as in, OFF) the computer, and turn it back on AND INTERRUPT the bootup sequence so you can select the thumbdrive to boot from instead of your regular hard-drive.
Most of the way through that nice old-school scrolling you'll get prompted for the strong password you thought up. Upon setting that up it will mount your thumbdrive as an encrypted volume and you'll get to the Liberte' Linux desktop. You will get asked for that password anytime it is asked to boot up.
There is a good editor built-in similar to Word (but about 10x faster), it will recognize presence of a wired or wireless LAN, it has a Tor-ified browser built-in (Epiphany) and runs pretty good so far. Upon clicking the far left desktop icon you can get options to reboot, shutdown, etc. It also has a 'claws' mail application for peer-to-peer email w/o an email server in the middle between other like systems. (More to research on this.)
The shutdown sequence will dismount the volume, clean up any traces, and then the screen will halt dead at the end of that scrolling. Unplug thumbdrive, finish your java (no pun) and go about your travels. Or reboot yourself back into whatever your home computer's mainstream OS is.
Seems so far to make a nice grayman type of OS for when out/about the hinterlands. Just wondered if anyone else running it and if they had any tips, gotchas, nice workarounds.