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Hello everyone, |
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I'd like to make the list aware that there is a new release of Tin Hat |
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out. For those unfamiliar, Tin Hat is a fully featured Linux desktop |
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based on Hardened Gentoo which runs purely in RAM. It aims to be very |
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secure, stable, and fast. Thanks to the dedicated Gentoo developers, |
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our group continues to put together a tightly knit hardened destkop |
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environment. |
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This release has some major feature enhancements. Primarly, one can |
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now "save" a running Tin Hat system to an ISO image or pen drive, thus |
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one can implement and retain customizations to the OS. An added |
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benefit is that now Tin Hat releases are no longer built from VMware |
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templates but from prestine running Tin Hat systems, all purely in |
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RAM. Saving a running system and building a new release is in essence |
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the same process. The bash scripts are the key, and one can use them |
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to "ramify" any Linux system as we have already done to other |
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customized Gentoo systems which we use for teaching. |
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As a side note to a recent discussion on the list, I hope that Tin Hat |
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furthers the cause of hardening on a desktop. The question of whether |
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the enormous effort is worth it might be mitigated by the fact that |
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much of the work has already been done in a prebuild reference system. |
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Home page: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat |
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Downloads: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat-downloads |
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Anthony Basile, Ph.D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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