Paranoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.
~Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008)
When those words were written, ParanoidLinux was just a fiction. It is our goal to make this a reality. The project officially started on May 14th, and has been growing ever since. We welcome your ideas, contributions, designs, or code. You can find us on freenode's irc server in the #paranoidlinux channel. Hope to see you there!
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ParanoidLinux Team
As I seem to be more and more involved in this project, here is a signing key
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There has been a lot of changes that have happened with project leadership and direction. It's time we have a semi-formal meeting, this is to reign in some of you non irc'ers and get everyone on the same page.
Details:
Friday the 28th of November 2008
Time: ??? Waking hours of CST/EST/PST probably - if you have some suggestions voice them in the comments we should have a time and agenda by Thursday 12:00 (cst) at the latest.
Location: Freenode, #paranoidlinux (there is a meeting channel that may be used, still up in the air, it will be announced firmly on Thursday.)
Discussion: Introduction, Current Progress, Plans for moving on, discussion, evaluation, end of meeting, formal proposals in loose form after (aka writing it to the wiki with a sign up list.).
After a long hiatus, I'm dropping by.
Hey guys! What's up?! OMG! A release?
Really, though, you guys are doing a GREAT job. I can't believe how much is getting done, and I'm sorry I haven't contributed more. Honestly, jrabbit messaged me a week or two ago, and I didn't properly respond. I'm sorry.
I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute in the future, either. Real life is surprisingly demanding. So, while I'm not saying goodbye forever, I did want to say thank you for letting me help with concepts and such early on. It was a great pleasure.
Also, what brought me initially to the site this morning was that I saw the logo over at http://breadpig.com/ and thought "OMG. We can do that!" so... I'll mock up the mouseover, and we can implement it. That may be my last contribution for a long time, though.
Thanks for everything.
Ike
Jrabbit edit: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4439431 Torrent http://alexbobp.servebeer.com/share/ParanoidLinux_alpha-alpha-alpha-alpha.iso HTTP Mirror (please seed!)
Today marks a monumental occasion build one of paranoid linux. Now i'm not going to admit we're anywhere near done, and to quote alexbobp "is "slightly paranoid ubuntu" kind of like "slightly pointy coconut"". Well yes, it is. But being slightly pointy is better than being not point at all (that's basically a Richard Dawkins quote)
So go out, find bugs, report them here and help the distro grow! If anyone knows how to take a ubuntu distro and create an svn tree that we can use to build cd's more quickly, that would be greatly appreciated.
Sam Phippen
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.
Hi, this is a ping to anyone just lurking around. Make sure you are subscribed to our RSS feed.
Kluster is a platform VMarks has found and we would like to demo it for some decisions in the group. You may need to create an account with them: https://paranoidlinux.kluster.com/ and the "passcode" is "bazaar".
We have strong indications to choose Debian Testing as the distribution we would like to fork from. We will improve security, anonymity, and automatic configuration. Other goals have been passed around.
cuz i have em. dirty. disjointed. days of conversation on end with the most random breaks. but they exist. comments will decide whether or not they get posted.
A good number of people think that chaff is an important place for us to concentrate. It is not. Here's why.
Hello Hungarians! Hopefully this site will become translatable for some basic content that explains the website and the project. If you are multi-lingual and would like to help with this effort, please join us on IRC. (#paranoidlinux on irc.freenode.net)
Good day and have a safe one,
Jrabbit