What is ELE?
ELE is a bootable Live CD Linux distribution with focus on privacy
related software.
It is based on Damn Small Linux and aims to be (obviously) as small as
possible. The first release was 65M, the current one 61M.
What does it include?
Irssi, Gaim, Dillo, Firefox, SSH, VNCviewer, Xpdf, most of the standard
Linux apps like wget and vi. It uses the Fluxbox window manager. Everything,
except VNCviewer at the moment, passes thrugh Tor. When using Dillo or Firefox
scrubbing is done by Privoxy and the Google search engine has been replaced by
Scroogle.
More information is available at
http://www.northernsecurity.net/download/ele/
Changelog for 0.0.2 (050323)
- Added NTPdate
- Possible to create and run a Tor server
(menu -> System -> Daemons -> Torserver)
Needs testing
- Xvkbd, a virtual keyboard, installed for those hardware
keylogger moments
- Dillo has replaced Firefox as default browser
Doesn't support SSL/TLS or CSS but its fast, small and got a very nice privacy policy
Uses Scroogle instead of Google
Runs of course through Privoxy and Tor
- Firefox
Not installed by default, but can be installed though the menu
(menu -> Apps -> Net -> Firefox)
Upgraded to Firefox 1.0.1, actually smaller than the previous one
To bad we need Pango and since that screwed things up the flashplugin was
enabled just for the sake of it
Some tweaks done, taken from www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html
- SSH runs through Tor thanks to connect
- VNCviewer runs through SSH, but not Tor
- Cleaned up the menus showed by pressing f{2,3} at boot
- Fixed "modules.conf is newer then modules.dep"
- Removed mount.app
- Removed some orphans
- Remove BitchX. Install Irssi. Get 4M for free
- Removed man-files and documentation. Waste of space
- Removed NFS from cpanel since its not installed
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