GNUnet Live System
Live system of GNU's anonymous and censor-resistant P2P application
Description
GNUnet is GNU's anonymous and censorship-resistant P2P application.
The GNUnet Live System is primarily targeted towards end-users who want to try GNUnet without installing it. Also, this system can be used to improve security and control resource usage.
Configuration is easy and the integrated Online Update function helps users to stay up-to-date.
The appliance was built by installing Debian from the 3.1 "netinstall" ISO. XFS was chosen as filesystem for speed, reliability and small storage consumption. Also, XFS doesn't have forced fsck runs on boot as the "ext" family has.
Blackbox was chosen because it is a light-weight window manager to display the graphical user interface of GNUnet.
Because the "Stable" repository of Debian contains outdated versions of GNUnet and libextractor (extraction of file's meta-data), both packages were installed from backports.org which usually has the latest versions.
After installing the software, scripts were written to configure the operating system and GNUnet on the first startup of the appliance.
To keep the appliance up-to-date without redownloading the entire system with every new version, a shortcut to Debian's Online Update system "apt" was added to the context menu of the blackbox window manager. Because the X session runs as user "gnunet", various sudo definitions had to be made.
The X display manager was removed to provide a login without user name and password (single user).
Getting started is easy: power the application on and follow the instructions on the screen. Since the appliance is a small Linux system, a few basic settings (network connection, keyboard layout, ...) need to be made.
After the configuration of the operating system is done, the graphical user interface will be booted. Then, GNUnet itself will be configured using the Setup Assistant. Every setup step contains detailed help texts. After the setup is done, the background process "gnunetd" and the graphical user interface "gnunet-gtk" will be started.
The configuration needs to be done only once.
The Blackbox menu (right click on the background of the Window manager) contains the Online Update and other links to frequently used tools.
The appliance contains free software only. Most of it is licensed under GPL or LGPL.
Last updated: 05/26/2006
Operating system:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Applications installed:
GNUnet 0.7.0e
libextractor 0.15.4
blackbox 0.65.0
XFree 86 4.3.0
SQLite 3.2.1
VMware Tools installed:
No
Size:
202 MB
Torrent available:
Yes
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Primary account
Username: gnunet
Password: gnunet
Submitted by: ndurner
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