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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.

I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.

I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:44AM (#206825)

    "Win7 laptop with TAILS occasionally. I actually like TAILS; use it in public places where I'm not sure of the WiFi."

    I hope you've disconnected the hard drive prior to using TAILS.

    If you use it as a LiveUSB option in public, tie a long but strong shoestring from your wrist to the usb drive. If someone tries to grab your laptop from you, out pops the USB and TAILS immediately wipes RAM and shuts down.

    If you're in a casual location where you're not in the position to have someone rip your laptop away from you, I recommend using TAILS (again, with no HDD connected!) on a LiveDVD. This way, no matter what happens, nothing is writing to a medium, it's a read only DVD and the best solution IMO.

    Also, please Google (or Startpage/DDG) for "Tor OPSEC". One page is Schneier's site with excellent comments, another is a decent but old article on Cryptome.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:28PM (#206937)

    Yeah ... quite a shame DreadPirateRoberts didn't have something like that set up :(

    Long live Silk Road.