I respect the efforts SkewedZeppelin has been doing as every other efforts in general, but after having read his posts on privacy I personally wouldn’t use his “privacy oriented” products,
they might be okay compared to the mainstream products, but not good enough for privacy conscious not to mention certain threat models.
Moreover, I find it inappropriate to take someone else OS, and after some light customization renaming it to "somethingelse"OS.
Marketing is probably the main driver force in human society no doubt about that, but it make me suspicious about author’s real intentions.
Lineage = AOSP - GApps + Proprietary Drivers
Any app you put on top of cleaned from GApps AOSP is considered a Bloatware or unwanted apps, because the people’s needs are so different,
that’s why we call it custom ROM, thus Divest" os " is another Custom ROM.
Debian + proprietary drivers and canonical’s Bloatware = Ubuntu
From that point in time Linux gets crazy:
Ubuntu - something + something = Lubuntu, xubuntu, myassBUNTU etc.
Debian + a ton of Bloatware = KaliLinux
That’s why I use Debian and degoogled AOSP made by myself and for myself only, I’m gonna call it MyassOS.
My intentions are to give as much security as possible to old devices, because not everyone can afford to buy the latest phone every two years, nor should old ones be tossed in the trash when the hardware is still functional.
@justsomeguy, Are you in relationship with SkewedZeppelin?
It’s more of a rhetoric question, and definitely not my business.
This question cams to mind because you two share a quiet similar worldview.
I would like to understand what exactly are you doing in this hostile to your way of thinking thread, this time it is definitely my concern because I started this thread, and you have been contributing nothing useful but unnecessary noise?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind to have some opposing opinion, I’m 100% pro democracy, I’m just curious what drives you?
New official release today. STILL full of “disabled” trackers and telemetry. I submitted a comment to it a few hours back and still no sign of approval, I expect it will remain hidden as the truth creates an inconvenience for Tor development team.
I find it inappropriate and disrespectful that you don’t even know what work he did on his OS and allow yourself the right to criticize, saying is just a light customization.
I don’t know why you think it’s inappropiate that someone modifies an existing OS to make their own.
By the same rule, we should be using UNIX , right?
It can start with a slight customization and grow into something big and totally separate from the original, with its own advantages for a specific users.
Yes, KaliLinux is meant to be an everyday operating system and not for auditing Wi-Fi, it’s not right that it just comes with everything that can be included for the purpose of auditing network security.
No, that sentence wasn’t meant to offend you, but nudge you a little bit toward providing some evidence, not just opposing everything coming in your way in this thread.
I suppose we shouldn’t alter this thread to “an introduction to Linux”
So, please inform yourself about Kali using following links:
What is Kali Linux, and what is a Penetration Testing Distribution?
What is a penetration testing distribution?
As legend tells it, years ago there was a penetration test in an isolated environment where the assessment team was not able to bring in any computers or have network access in or out of the target environment. In order to do the work, the first penetration testing distribution was born. It was a bootable Live CD configured with various tools needed to do the work, and after the assessment was completed the Live CD was shared online and became very popular.
I may not have been technically correct at all, but that doesn’t change the argument, it has a specific purpose and is not meant to be used as an everyday operating system, calling it bloatware is silly.
Go ahead, keep behaving like an arrogant.
I don’t care for “privacy focused” derivatives either (LineageOS works fine enough for me), but the whole point of the Four Freedoms of free software is that users have the right to modify and distribute it. In free software, forks are a feature, not a bug.
I never opposed an open source philosophy.
The only thing am not agree with is a naming of the certain custom builds like Lineage"OS" or Divest"OS", because the underlying OS is still Android OS.
I’m a former CyanogenMod user, Lineage “OS” is a fork, it’s fine, but to call it an Operating System, isn’t right, in my opinion.
No one calls Linux’s or BSD’s flavors somethingOS it is Debian or Arch or even Fedora(RedHat), with one little exception of CentOS because it’s Red Hat is an exception anyway.
You can build your very own Kernel, and call it whatever your like OS, otherwise name it without an “OS” in it.
or 16 of about 31 “notable” custom Android distributions listed on Wikipedia disagree, FWIW. (careless, quick count) Feel free to go convince those developers…
I see issues from 2 or 3 years ago and the tickets aren’t marked as closed so they may have responded but not with a fix
Odd, I see 3 of 4 are closed. The open one “needs information” so will probably be closed if there isn’t follow up.
This closed one may be of particular interest because it discusses Adjust and Leanplum in mobile Tor Browser, which are listed in the OP. Except it was for “Orfox.”
I didn’t doubt that.
While 16 out of 20 Homosapiens jumping from the roof of the Empire State Building,
I prefer to find myself among the four remaining, discussing our bright future.