Alpha-Alpha Release In the Works!
Sun, 09/28/2008 - 17:14 — Powerking
We've been working the last couple days to get the foundation laid for the Alpha-Alpha release.
This does not mean we're anywhere near an actual release; however it does mean we're finally moving in that direction. We're still working on many of the details however we're fairly certain that we will be using debian-testing as our base. We just want to make sure that everyone knows that we ARE still alive and we ARE ready to finally get to the fun part of GNU/Linux Distribution.
As always, Stay Paranoid.
Powerking out.
Comments
How to participate in this project?
I am wondering if I could be a member of this group since I am capable of translating the documents from English to Chinese to which this distro is aiming. I have taken the TOEFL and GRE standard test and I major in Mathematics and I have ever studied C, Java and data structure and algorithm analysis. So I believe I could be an active member of this project if I could take part in it.
I'd like to see several things:
First of all, do not rush to get this out! This is not a race, and as most experienced programmers know: rushed implementations and premature decision making has killed more software projects than who knows what.
Keep steady progress on the project and people won't lose interest. Psychology can be used to our advantage. If we churn out a beta of JustAnotherDistro, then PL will certainly not be respected or sought out.
Secondly, myself and several others on IRC have found Gentoo to be the best answer for the features we hold high. Please try out Gentoo before deciding on Debain (check out how many of the software projects we want are already maintained in portage: like TOR, Truecrypt, and try out Hardened too). If a primary goal turns out to be a livecd/usbkey, then we should look into Knoppix and preferably DSL.
Thirdly, make this an open process! Let's make a list of goals in order of priority. I'd like to help write it: where should it be? A flow chart might help too.
I know who you folks are!
You all are members from CIA and this Linux distro is the best backdoor you realized to do.
Oh darn...
Which *IDIOT* blew our cover? Damn, damn, damn.
(On a more serious note, I'd like to point out I'm not actually a member of of the USA government, nor the USA itself ;->)
"The only thing that hasn't changed since 9/11 is that the government is still *u**ing up"
-Steal This Book Today
This site needs to be on
This site needs to be on https only.
This is fantastic, don't listen to these stuck up nerds.
This is awesome, fuck what all these pretentious nerds think. They're fucking idiots, this is a fantastic idea, and desperately needed in countries where identity can be the difference between life and death.
Fking ae
I like the way you think
"The only thing that hasn't changed since 9/11 is that the government is still *u**ing up"
-Steal This Book Today
:/
A paranoid distro that has a website that doesn't even use HTTPS? :/
I think that focusing on privacy technology is a good thing, I do however think that most of the technology that you plan on using is already out there and I don't see what unique contribution this distro would make.
You'd be better off running a wiki website informing interested parties how to encrypt their data using Debian and how to communicate securely.
just join Debian
PLEASE just join Debian instead of starting yet-another-distro.
but having a distro for
but having a distro for every linux user is soooo much more productive.
lusers
Hell yes!
And to all you Debian lovers, do you think I have better things to do than this?
...
(Probably, but thats beside the point!)
Go drool over your magical Debian somewhere else.
"The only thing that hasn't changed since 9/11 is that the government is still *u**ing up"
-Steal This Book Today
Holy Smokes!
And here was me thinking we were still just dreaming. Frickn GMT+12. No IRC :( But still, good work all those lucky dogs who do't have to be up til midnightish to say stuff :)
"The only thing that hasn't changed since 9/11 is that the government is still *u**ing up"
-Steal This Book Today
Weekends
I have to go hit the sack early on weekdays, but if you pop in on a friday night (or maybe a saturday night) and pm me directly; i will respond to that :)
Hope to see you around sometime.
This is great, I'm very glad
This is great, I'm very glad to see that you're still actively pursuing this! Also, I'm looking forward to using the finished product. If you don't have enough help already, make sure you post announcements all over the Internets as soon as you get the ball rolling. I'm sure a bunch of people will join up to help this cause. There will probably be some kind of cusp event in the not-too-far-future, triggering massive interest in preventing people from snooping on you. This will probably make you linked on Digg or Slashdot and other places, giving you a massive interest-spike. So you should be ready to handle such a sudden spike in popularity at any given time, and make sure you're capable to hoard in all the volunteers that will come from that.
So get some work done! Then get some help! Good luck!
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only the paranoid will last