On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:11:37 +0200, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: > However a good guideline or tutorial on how to set up your system > like for instance with Luke's experience would be great.
A Wiki is a good idea, OTOH there is already much information available. Users need to consider if a secure computer makes sense when they "Add to an Amzone Cart" and publish their diary at Facebook and they 24/365 carry a turned on mobile. To become a rocket scientists, we can't simply switch from watching "The Bold And The Beautiful" to watching "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking". We need to dig deeper and perhaps change our lifestyle. Oops, I should subscribe with several email accounts and set up mailman to send list mail to just one account. Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:50:43 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware? On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:21:34 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: >Perhaps Ralf and lukefromdc wants to search through the packages to >establish a list of homecry software, vs. cool software? No-go: Apport, Whoopsie, all that stuff from Canonical that recommends Amazone or similar https://stallman.org/amazon.html, that spies if a user runs desktop searches etc.. Within the next days or weeks I plan to tidy up my hard disk drives [1], to replace my Arch Linux's VirtualBox Win XP with a KVM, QEMU, virt-manager Win 7 and then to install an Ubuntu Studio 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Daily Build [2], perhaps Alpha 2 on July 30th [3]. However, regarding the default browser I wonder if Firefox should be replaced. Most of the times I'm using Firefox, Pale Moon and QupZilla. I can't say much about differences regarding security, but all three are a PITA because they ignore environment font sizes, the menu fonts are much to small, only QupZilla has a usable history, but regarding security users perhaps don't want a history at all and QupZilla can't use Firefox add-on. Most important seems to be the user's browser preferences. I wonder that Firefox still is that much used, since QupZill and Pale Moon likely perform better than Firefox. Perhaps QupZilla less often gets unresponsive when waiting for action of a website, than Firefox and Pale Moon do, but I didn't really test this. Since Paul Davis calls me names, for claims that were not made by me, but e.g. by Len and others or when Paul Davis simply is mistaken and because he bans my mails, just sometimes replies without reading them, it's hard for me to e.g. find out how risky Ardour update checks are. Since Len was mentioned at the last Ardour release's "special thanx too"-list he might could find out easier, if Ardour is an app that could be recommended regarding security needs. Personally I seldom care about security for my computer usage, I just dislike myth about security. Btw. some links that were posted in a FreeBSD mailing list within the last days: OpenSSH http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150708134520&mode=expanded&count=27 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420 And this one http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backdoored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack Regards, Ralf [1] $ grep menuentry /mnt/debi386/boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -f2 -d"'" Debian, Linux 3.8.13-rt14-pae-rocketmouse-2 Debian, Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-rt-686-pae Debian, Linux 3.8.13.14-rt30-pae-rocketmouse-1 Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae (recovery mode) Kubuntu Saucy, kernel 3.8.13-rt14-1-rt Kubuntu Saucy, kernel 3.6.5-rt14 Kubuntu Saucy, kernel 3.11.0-19-lowlatency threadirqs Kubuntu Saucy, kernel 3.11.0-14-lowlatency threadirqs Kubuntu Saucy, kernel 3.11.0-14-lowlatency single Arch Linux Rt Arch Linux Rt LTS Arch Linux Rt nohz=off Arch Linux Arch Linux threadirqs Arch Linux Fallback openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.6-rt19 menuentry "FreeBSD"{ menuentry "XP"{ Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.6.5-rt14 Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.10.9-rt5 experimental Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.5.0-18-lowlatency threadirqs Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.5.0-18-lowlatency (recovery mode) Ubuntu Studio Quantal, Kernel 3.6.5-rt14 Ubuntu Studio Quantal, Kernel 3.5.0-18-lowlatency threadirqs Ubuntu Studio Precise, Kernel 3.0.30 threadirqs Ubuntu Studio Precise, Kernel 3.2.0-23-lowlatency threadirqs Edubuntu 10.10, Kernel 2.6.33.9-rt31 Ubuntu Studio Oz, Kernel 3.0.0-17-generic Ubuntu Studio Oz, Kernel 3.0.0-20-generic [2] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/pending/ [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
