COMP 3000 2011 Report: Liberté Linux

Background

In this day and age, anonymity, privacy and liberty are at the forefront of people’s minds. Whether it’s being able to surf the web anonymously and securely; access sites that have been arbitrarily blacklisted by various governments, or more importantly, the capability of communicating secretly in dire situations where anonymity is paramount for survival. If you're an activist or a spy, Liberté Linux is the distribution for you. <ref name="hostileEnvironment" />

Liberté, which translates to freedom in French is supposed to exemplify this very concept. The notion of freedom of communication governs this particular distribution. To put it aptly, Liberté’s primary focus is to allow secure and reliable communication in hostile environment. <ref name="hostileEnvironment" />

It is interesting to note, the Liberté trademark (displayed on the left) is a composite of several different logos: <ref name="logo" />

• The emblem of the United Nations
• The flag of Anonymous
• Blank globe, focus on Africa
• The URSS aviation Kremlin Red Star
• The Black Triforce (The creator mentions he was inspired by the triforce in Zelda Ocarina of Time) <ref name="zelda" />
• Essays 1743 font (for the title Liberté)

Finally the motto encompassing the logo states: Anonymus / Ultima ratio libertatis / Nomen illis legio. <ref name="logo" />

Liberté Linux is a Gentoo based Live CD/USB/SD distribution, created by Maxim Kammerer and can be easily obtained from sourceforge.

Installation/Startup

Live USB

(As a caveat, because Liberté Linux was installed on a USB, none of these screenshots in this section are mine, all have been taken from liberte.com)

Liberté Linux is a lightweight

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