IN DEFENSE OF TUMBLWEED: WHY @BRYANLUNDUKE IS WRONG
What is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed?
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a cutting-edge Linux distribution from the OpenSUSE team. It uses the latest versions of software applications and the Linux kernel for those who want to see what will be coming up in other Linux distributions in 6-months to a year or more from the time that they appear in Tumbleweed. This means that there are bugs; lots of them. Things break, This is the price that you pay for having the very cutting edge or software technology.
LATTEPANDA GIGGLESCORE
A Gigglescore is a ratio score of price to performance for single-board-computers like the LattePanda or Raspberry Pi. A lower Gigglescore means a better value for the money. A higher one is worse. You can see more here: https://gigglescore.com/
DOCUMENTATION AND ASCIIDOC
A few weeks ago I wrote a guide for installing OpenSUSE Kubic. I wrote it using my team at work’s lab manual templates in LibreOffice and then exported the output as a PDF. If you ever take a course from SUSE Training, you will receive a complete lab manual like this as a part of your course materials.
ONION SERVICES IN WINDOWS 10
Notes:
The following is a proof of concept tutorial on how to create a Tor onion service on Windows 10 using Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux. This has not been security tested by anyone in the Tor project. It is also not exactly the same directions that I would give someone who wants create an onion service in Linux. Namely that WSfL doesn’t use systemd the way it is meant to be used natively. Instead you have to start system daemons using the old SysV method with /etc/init.d/ Also, services do not continue running after the window has been closed. If someone can find a workaround for that, I’ll gladly update this tutorial.
DOES IT LEAK? -- TUMBLEWEED EDITION
The following is a spreadsheet that I put together this weekend testing Linux applications and how well the work on Tor.
ANONYMITY IS IMPORTANT
Let’s begin with something useful.
In order to use Tor, you ideally need a browser that can access it. The Tor Browser on desktop platforms, formerly known as the Tor Browser Bundle, and the Orfox Browser with the Orbot app on Android are the suggested browsers. Why? Tor takes anonymity seriously.
INSTALLING THE TOR BROWSER
We’ll do this in four parts for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android users.
WE DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN
I’m staying in a hotel chain in London only to find a firewall that throttles interesting stuff like BBC iPlayer and YouTube. I tried going to my VPN provider. That the website is blocked to protect children and vulnerable people. What?! Meanwhile I have no trouble connecting to #4chan because they only care so much about children_._
MY DAY WITH FEDORA
I used Fedora 28 today for work instead of my usual OpenSUSE Leap 15 installation. Here’s how it went.
I NEED A NEW OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
A few years ago I wrote this rousing email about the Linux Documentation Project and I made waves in a mailing list that lay mostly dormant for years. After the list was rejuvenated, I set out to learn git, then then to find pieces of Linux documentation all around the web and add it. The idea was, find a central place (i.e. TLDP) to store all of the documentation from here and there and then replicate that central store all over the globe for redundancy so it is never lost. I had big goals and then nothing really came of it.