ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

Ubuntu Touch 16.04 for cell phones is out and it's not bad or a 32-bit OS. To add Privacy Enhanced Linux's anti-Google protection, you can hack their /etc/hosts file and add these lines from PELinux 2-14 R3, which is the only "officially" supported version:

127.0.0.1       adwords.google.com
127.0.0.1       pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1       pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1       adservices.google.com       
127.0.0.1       ssl.google-analytics.com    
127.0.0.1       www.google-analytics.com    
127.0.0.1       imageads.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads1.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads2.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads3.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads4.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads5.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads6.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads7.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads8.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads9.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       www.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       show.googleadsenseagent.com
127.0.0.1       partner.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       adopt.specificclick.net
127.0.0.1       clk.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1       spe.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1       0.afs.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       pubads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       adserver.adtechus.com
127.0.0.1       aka-cdn-ns.adtechus.com
127.0.0.1       ad.adserverplus.com
127.0.0.1       ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       engine.adzerk.net

I usually put it somewhere between the IPv4 and IPv6 sections just to keep the file neat but you can put it anywhere. See the pinned comment in this YouBoob video for more info:




Or just open the terminal app and type:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim

THE LAST POST

The Linux community showed me no love so I won't be releasing any new versions. The 9-11 Truth community has been wonderful, however, and YouTube has been doing its best to censor them. In fact, the one smoking gun video that proves it's all a lie has mysteriously disappeared from YouBoob, so here it is:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aRWy25VYXTrv30dZpe_kbS4GdJWYi-7I

You can clearly see that most of the jet fuel was consumed by the impact fireball in this video. You can also see what appears to be thermite cutter charges emitting a distinctive white smoke that's unlike the black smoke coming from the rest of the building.

I have to admit I chuckled a bit when the co-conspirators at YouTube got shot up. That's what I call justice! LOL

FIREFOX FOCUS

While Firefox Quantum is more cloud-centric than ever before, there's another version called Firefox Focus that's privacy focused. In fact, when run on iOS anyway, it's sandboxed just like with Firejail Tools under Linux. It has a built-in web bug blocker like Privacy Badger. And it deletes all of the site data like Bleach Bit. So basically it does exactly what I was trying to accomplish with PELinux.

PROJECT ABANDONED

I bought an iPad Pro so have lost interest in a Pi 3 tablet. Touch support actually got worse since 17.04 (I know, it's hard to believe worse is even possible) but if you're still using this with a Waveshare 10.1" IPS (the best Pi screen at any price) I'd still recommend Beta6A. Just do an apt upgrade and apt update after first boot and you'll have what I was going to put in 7A. If you want to go 17.10 I'd recommend you edit /etc/apt/sources.list after that and change all instances of the word "zesty" to "artful" then apt update and apt-get dist-upgrade, rather than using Beta6B (17.10 was still in beta when I made it.)

FAKE NEWS KILLS

Did you really think they'd stop at lying and stealing elections? It's not just innocent Muslims who had nothing to do with 9/11 anymore.

God bless ISIS for sawing heads off. They're a true inspiration to everyone seeking REAL justice.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Like the recently released JFK documents there's nothing to see here. The fake news says they were kept secret for no reason at all and you should believe everything they say. Now back to hateful conspiracy theories about Russians. Never forget millions of Russians died in WW2 so Democrats could make fake news like this.

17.10 ALPHA 2

I'm using 17.04 on my production machines and 18.04 on my development boxes, so I really have no interest in 17.10 at this time. Probably won't be any new text/console/server images until next year when I'll build one from scratch again, instead of upgrading from these images

Hillbilly Linux, the #1 choice of bucktoothed rednecks

FLASH FRIENDLY ENCRYPTED THUMB DRIVE

Got a new YouBoob viedo of my original (version 1.1) Raspberry Pi 2B running 32-bit Murdock Edition (Debian 8 with backports) and my new Raspberry Pi 3B running PELinux64 BETA6C. Only thing to really note here is when importing an encrypted folder you need to resize the window to see the thumb drive and then right click the file area to see hidden files/folders. After that the wizard is fairly straight forward, just enter a name for the unencrypted mount point. If you don't know how to make a flash friendly partition/drive man mkfs.f2fs -- I like to format the whole thumb drive with no partitions just to make it even harder for non-Linux users to figure out what they're looking at.

Both screens are WaveShare, one 7" and the other 10.1" IPS. For what it's worth the colors on the IPS are fantastic but it's dim and hard to see outdoors. It also sucks more juice and requires its own power. I use two $10 Tzumi 2.4amp USB batteries when carrying it around, one for the Pi 3B and one for the screen.

BIONIC BEAVER BETA 6C

Congratulations on being part of this historic moment in ARM64 Linux and Raspberry Pi 3 history. Announcing the first distribution based on Ubuntu 18.04, code named Bionic Beaver. Tacitus will surely record this event in his annals.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8WsV7ZWJa1aDAwSC1fT3dpeFU
1308720648 Oct 31 2017 privacyenhancedlinux64_beta6C.zip
md5sum privacyenhancedlinux64_beta6C.zip
59ddcc132355c845785c6a66f7911d8f

Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.31)
Distro: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.5
OpenGL renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL version: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (compat-v: 3.0)
Direct Render: Yes
Gcc sys: 7.2.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2.0-12ubuntu1)
GNU Make: 4.1 (built for aarch64)

UPDATING

This pre-release development version comes with many bleeding edge packages like Systemd 235 and LibreOffice 5.4 but some packages like PulseAudio are still at version 10 and will likely be updated before release. To be sure you get the latest version you need to periodically run apt-get dist-upgrade rather than the typical apt upgrade. Whenever the official alpha or beta versions come out is the perfect time, or that's when the dev packages are the most "stable" anyway, to use the word loosely, like TV "news". :P

HARDWARE

Don't forget default boot config is for a WaveShare 10.1 IPS touchscreen and a Pi 3B with UHS-1 microSD card. If you're using anything else you need to edit those settings before first boot. Also, YouBoob video below assumes only one hard disk in your PC, so check to make sure your SD card reader/writer isn't /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd if you have more than one internal drive.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PELINUX

Privacy Enhanced Linux is two years old today! Though there's no official birth of a corporate entity certificate, rest assured that like all good entities it's entirely legal. To celebrate we're posting the original readme text file which contains the core principals which guide us. In it you'll find our strict code of conduct, the end-user license agreement, terms of service and for all you lawyers there's even a warranty section, enjoy.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8WsV7ZWJa1X0RNa2RiMHp4NUk

NOTE: By "we" and "us" I mean "me" and "myself". The meaning of the word "is" is also debatable.

RIP BARRY JENNINGS

He survived the controlled demolition of Building 7 on 9-11-2001 but they still got him.

KALI ARM64 DEB PACKAGES

Kali Linux has ARM64 DEB packages. I was going to write a shell script but it's safer if you execute the commands one at a time. The important thing to remember is NEVER apt-get upgrade with the Kali repo enabled or you'll break things. It's also a good idea to apt-cache show the package name to verify Ubuntu doesn't already have it. For example, if you apt-cache show macchanger you'll see the same version is in 17.10 and Kali so always install the Ubuntu version first to avoid conflicts. I've already found a few ARM64 packages that only exist in Kali's repo and plan on installing those (since they don't cause conflicts) by default in future versions of PELinux64.


sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys ED444FF07D8D0BF6
sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kali-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get install bluesnarfer crackle dumpzilla fierce webscarab burpsuite
sudo apt-add-repository -r "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free"
sudo apt-get update

YOUBOOB VIDEOS

The Kali Linux guys have a ton of videos so I guess I need a few too. Here's how to get started using Privacy Enhanced Linux 64.

And while you have gparted open, check out all the file systems supported by default. NTFS support is compiled into the kernel itself.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY JOB

It's crystal clear now. If President Trump even knew somebody that knew someone that had something to do with the controlled demolition of three skyscrapers on 9-11, there would be a constant investigation and endless debate. The fact that the liberal media won't even discuss the science behind 9-11 Truth proves emphatically that it was a Democratic Party inside job. They simply wouldn't cover up a crime of this magnitude for a Republican.

REVISIONIST HISTORY

Nazi were leftists. Republicans freed the slaves. And Ferguson was terrorism not Charlottesville. So lets call the "news" on American TV what it really is: propaganda.

I COULDN'T WAIT

They say patience is a virtue, but they lie, a lot.

Beta6A is the last 17.04 ARM64 version. You can update it yourself until end of support, no need for me to make new images.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8WsV7ZWJa1aHpSUmtCV2RhQXc
1.1GB ZIP file has an md5sum of 5e4e5f1bcd69f924b5542aa39d3f32ca

Beta6B is pre-release Ubuntu 17.10 which will "feature freeze" this month. Xubuntu didn't participate in the official alpha testing and as expected they both use Xfce 4.12.3 on Xorg 1.19.3, so no change. Mesa has been updated from 17.0.7 to 17.1.4 though.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8WsV7ZWJa1V0hLUkM2cFl1TEU
1.3GB ZIP file has an md5sum of 34ba5d2117a2615c1b2082658f0de120

My Alpha3 will be a base/text/console 17.10 image with a new kernel. I'm starting over from scratch to make a clean 17.10 system. That'll give me another shot at the built-in Bluetooth and I'll also try switching from xdm to gdm. If all goes well I'll have a script I can use next year to make my custom 18.04 LTS build.

So this is it for now. I'm not expecting anything new for the next few months.

DONATIONS

If you're tired of fake TV news feeding you Democratic Party propaganda, make a donation to the 9/11 Truth movement. They think the can blow up your office building and blame guys in caves on the other side of the planet... or maybe trolls sent by Putin corrupted our democracy, just don't blame the boolshiat artists feeding you crap on TV. They're not responsible for anything that's happening in the world today, just like the Zionist extremists of the Jewish State (aka "Israel".)  You can blame anyone but them.

http://www1.ae911truth.org/en/home/68-contribute-to-ae911truth/420-donate-ae911truth.html

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

For the 64-bit version you need a Pi 3B, a UHS-1 micoSD card and HEATSINKS. Privacy Enhanced Linux 64 is optimized for performance and core temps of 79°C have been observed-- the pre-installed sensor viewer app doesn't update correctly but it works if you close and reopen the window. I've put copper heatsinks on the top and BOTTOM of the circuit board, on the memory chip, and it still gets hot enough to fry an egg. It would have to be a tiny blue Robin's egg and you'd need the world's smallest frying pan... think I'm going to McDonalds for breakfast.

TOUCHSCREEN BETA5

Daemonized Onboard so it's running as root at the Xdm (X display manager) screen. Don't run Onboard as a user or autostart it in settings, you'll just end up with two on-screen keyboards. Firmware config.txt preconfigured for my Waveshare 10.1 IPS touchscreen as always but any USB HID screen should work fine with this version, NO KEYBOARD REQUIRED.

LINK REMOVED USE BETA6
ZIP file has an md5sum of bdf917501ac82b432eb3bcd28399713d

To restore Onboard to previous configuration edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup and delete the last line. Then use MenuLibre to make the Onboard icons visible again. That's it! Those are the only changes I made.

APPLICATION CHANGES

Nano because apparently I'm the only one still using vi. Claws Mail to complete the standard suite of desktop programs. MenuLibre so I could make the Onboard icons go away. And NTP (Network Time Protocol) to automagically update the fake hardware clock. All still neatly ZIPed into a one gigabyte file.

REMAINING ISSUES

gufw has a unlisted dependency on locales which I'm avoiding like the plague for now. If it would just update correctly instead of blowing away locale.gen forcing you reconfigure it every fookin' time.. but people have been complaining for YEARS and nobody cares so.. the plague I say. Plain ole UFW works fine from the command line.

Firejail tools has an ARM64 specific bug that apparently requires compiling with a special flag. I'm trying not to fook with packages that will need updating when upgrading to 17.10 so I'll probably uninstall it next time around.

RFCOMM doesn't seem to have a service file so my Bluetooth installation may be incomplete. If they had just made it a frickin' USB device like the built-in wired Ethernet adapter none of this shit would be required.

These three are the only remaining issues I have.

MULTI-TOUCH RANT

The projects are years old with no progress, just a few bug fixes, if you're lucky. With all the resources being devoted to bringing us a safe and secure Nazi init system, you'd think someone would have spent a buck or two on what's been standard for Winblows since version 8. I can't even frickin' two finger right click. Touchegg has never worked right with Xfce and Twofing is a dirty hack by even my standards, anywho. Luckily Onboard has a right click button or a big vein on my forehead would have popped.

MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER

He said he was from the future and he was carrying a Raspberry Pi 6C in the official holographic Pi Foundation case. I asked him for firmware for my Pi 3B and he used Quantum Entanglement Bluetooth v11.2 to write it to my SD card that was several miles away. I immediately drove home and made this backup image:

LINK REMOVED USE BETA5
1GB BETA4 ZIP has md5sum of 52dca140225a6009aa811055f32f457a

If you compare the GPU's boot code file byte-by-byte (using cmp) with the official one from 7-11-2017 they'll probably seem the same though. All the overlays might be from kernel 4.9.38 too. Maybe, possibly...

OMG! WTF? My firmware is from THE FUTURE :o

BUILT-IN BLUETOOTH

I've got it nailed down to a problem with RFCOMM which I really don't feel like researching at the moment. I'll give it another try before 17.10 is released though. Works with my Panda BT 4.0 USB dongle so I'm kind of over it for now.

KERNEL

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux

Since I'm not including any custom deb packages, this is how I get the source. Only real difference is the Pi Foundation includes their own default config that's not in Linus' stock kernel, so before make menuconfig do a:

make bcmrpi3_defconfig

Everything else is normal (make, modules_install) until the last step which is to rename the /linux/arch/arm64/boot/Image file kernel8.img and put it on the firmware partition (mounted as /boot.)

OVERLAYS

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware

It would appear the overlays are specific to a particular kernel version. So even with the latest firmware you should copy /linux/arch/arm64/boot/dts/overlays/ over to your /boot dir. I have to start all over with Mesa and VC4 because I neglected to do this.

64-BIT UHS-1 BETA3

Yeah, you not only need a Pi3 for this one but you'll also need a UHS-1 or Class 10 microSD card. Edit config.txt file on firmware partition if that's a problem.

LINK REMOVED USE BETA5

1GB ZIP file has an md5sum of 0bc4d23ee3cca14203033edbd0d438b2

Latest Pi Foundation 4.9.38 kernel and Bluetooth almost works. Wasted a day playing with VideoCore4 before reverting back to beta2 and starting over. Got a steady 60 FPS out of fullscreen glxgears (running vsync on a 60 Hz HDMI screen) so it definitely works but it also crashes xdm on every startup and shutdown. Oh well, back to swrast, just for comparison though:

hardware accelerated:
OpenGL vendor string: Broadcom
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on VC4 V3D 2.1
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16

software rasterizer:
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00

I also tried compiling Mesa for vc4 myself but didn't seem to help with lockups. After all the build deps and source I had run out of partition space. I didn't want to make the img/zip files any bigger and it might have angered the package management gods when trying to upgrade to 17.10 so I left all that out.

Quite frankly, I almost called this one 1704R1 instead of Beta3. It's pretty close... but no cigar.