nooby wrote:Yes Nooby unfortunately asked so much that the thread became
unreasonably long or tall or whatever good word for massive
I am a slow thinker so hopefully other noobs can get PussyLinux
going without any problem.
I wish I had more energy I would describe how to
get it going from a noob perspective.
I wonder if the inclusion of Java which MakeHuman seems to need
Would that make PussyLinux vulnerable to exploitation?
Have I got it right that this is the only Debian that is a 100% Debian
and can be installed in frugal root mode while others like Mephis
and Antix and many others are not 100%? They being too different?
Obviously I know nothing but it is fun to follow what Sickgut is up to.
Nooby i dont think you give yourself enough credit. I do not believe you are a slow thinker at all, infact the difficulties you have described with the autism would suggest you are faster thinker than most others and so fast infact that even you cannot sort through all your thoughts properly and so you get confused.
Also please know that i dont resent your posting about the famous nooby NTFS write to boot partition bug, it simply reinforced the need to fix it. With out your posting about it, i would have overlooked it.
Also you have made an extremely valuable contribution to Pussy when you helped me install Pussy dual boot with Windows in the early alpha release. I thought it was impossible but you showed me how to do it.
Think what you like, say what you want, but you are the absolute grub master at
www.murga-linux.com
Yes the other debian based distros (PCLinuxOS, Antix, Knoppix, etc) arent quite like Pussy. Those distros need their own repositories because they make fundamental changes to the OS that are incompatible with Debian and not all Debian packages will install flawlessly. Pussy is the only Debian based OS that has a different name that adds additional features but keeps 100% Debian compatible. This is because everything added that is not from Debian is in other folders/ directories that no Debian OS or Debian package/ application/ program uses, therefore all the modifications (more rightly described as additions) like the catroll-panel and cleanmode browsing etc do not overwrite or impact any of the Debian configuration.
The Debian devs themselves class an OS 100% Debian compatible if it can be upgraded to the next version (from squeeze to wheezy or sid) using apt-get or another automated method. Pussy can do this and it doesnt affect any Pussy feature and no Pussy specific feature gets in the way of this. The Debians devs believe that only pure Debian can do this, but i will (maybe in the next Pussy edition based on wheezy) show them that Pussy can do it to. The Debian devs have a slogan:
"If its not called Debian then its not 100% Debian compatible, otherwise the OS would be called Debian"
Pussy will prove that wrong. Ive upgraded to sid and it worked fine.
Squeeze will be replaced with Wheezy maybe in a year maximum or even as soon as 6 months, this is why im rushing to get Pussy DVD released and then make the other versions of Pussy the best I can. It would be a shame if squeeze went dead and Pussy didnt get finished and made as good as possible. When Wheezy comes out, i will be able to make another new version of Pussy and because i have learned from my mistakes it wont take as long and also i plan on making a 64 bit version as well.
As far as the inclusion of Java goes, i dont know the specific exploits/ hacking security vulnerabilities you are referring to, but security for a Live distro isnt as vital as security for a normal HDD installed OS because the worst that can happen on a Live distro is something goes bad, you turn the computer off and on and you are back to where you was before.
However i do know that its possible for someone to mount your hdd and then browse it or delete stuff. Dont mount your HDD unless you need to and after you are finished with it, unmount it. Also if someone really wants to hack you, they will and it doesnt matter what precautions you take. And if the government wants to hack or spy on you there is nothing at all you can do, every communications device and the linux kernel itself have easy access backdoors in them that the government has the codes to access. Infact its a federal offense to have a popular communications program like skype for instance to not have a backdoor, once your software gets popular enough you will be approached by whatever government and you will be ordered to insert a backdoor to their specs and ordered not to talk about or warn others. Your computer is not safe. Do not even keep your bank details in a text file on your hdd, even newbie hackers can find that. Dont type letters of a sensitive nature on your computer. Nothing is safe at all. Java is the least of anyones worries as far as security. There is no security. Dont keep anything you want to keep private on a computer at all.
Im glad that Puppy Linux isnt popular enough for the government to order a backdoor be inbuilt to it. However, debian is popular enough and Pussy is basicly debian, so........ dont do anything on your debian/ pussy computer that you dont want to be blackmailed with or can be used against you at a later date.
Dont trust Tor either, it doesnt matter what server you bounce your traffic off of when there is a backdoor on your computer sending information to the government, your keystrokes, whats on your screen... everything. An advanced proxy will not protect you. However Tor can be fun and useful if you get banned from a forum or chat room or game and you want to troll it. Trolling is what the internet was made for. They say it was made for military applications, but i think it was really made so generals can troll each other. Im so much of a troll i actually live under a bridge.
Sorry bout the rant.
But in short, Pussy isnt about security as im simply relying on the inbuilt security of Linux itself, no matter what happens its still alot better than Windows.