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.