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. Liberté Linux is the distribution for you.
Liberté, which translates to freedom in French is supposed to exemplify these very needs. 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
- The URSS aviation Kremlin Red Star
- The Black Triforce (The creator mentions he was inspired by the triforce in Zelda Ocarina of Times) <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, taking up a mere 200mib of disk space.