ELE
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 When using Dillo or Firefox scrubbing is done by Privoxy and the Google search engine has been replaced by Scroogle. How do I use it?
Burn the ISO to a CD, reboot. If it doesn't boot, change the boot order in the BIOS. If you computer is able to boot from a CD, it's probably good enough to run ELE. When starting the Tor server it complains about an Address. Why?
The Tor server needs a publicly available IP or FQDN.
Add Address followed by IP or FQDN to the config file which is /opt/tor/torrc.ele by default.
Running a server is at this moment in beta, so please report any bugs.
Please read the documentation at tor.eff.org. How do you test it?
I test the .iso files with QEMU, if it works I burn a cd and try it out on one of my machines. The QEMU options I test with is qemu -cdrom ele-xxx.iso -user-net -m 128. Download
ftp.se.linux.org/Linux/distributions/ele/ Signatures and checksums
0.0.2 signed md5
0.0.1 signature, md5 Comments/Ideas/Bugs?
Mail me. Changelog
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
0.0.1 (050309)
- Initial release o TODO x MAYBE + DONE
o Make desktop less depressing
o Rename user account to ele
o Include the OTR Gaim plugin and enable it by default
o Upgrade kernel
o Fix Irssi DNS-leakage
o Add SILC-support to Irssi
o Clean ugly wrapper scripts
o Do something with that smbclient
x Add a firewall
x Firefox web install
x Install GmailFS and GnuPG
x Encrypted Swap
x Webserver
+ Update Firefox
+ Make SSH use Tor
+ Make VNCviewer use Tor and SSH (partial, only SSH atm)
+ Create an option to start a Tor router (partial, needs testing)
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. How do I use it?
Burn the ISO to a CD, reboot. If it doesn't boot, change the boot order in the BIOS. If you computer is able to boot from a CD, it's probably good enough to run ELE. When starting the Tor server it complains about an Address. Why?
The Tor server needs a publicly available IP or FQDN.
Add Address followed by IP or FQDN to the config file which is /opt/tor/torrc.ele by default.
Running a server is at this moment in beta, so please report any bugs.
Please read the documentation at tor.eff.org. How do you test it?
I test the .iso files with QEMU, if it works I burn a cd and try it out on one of my machines. The QEMU options I test with is qemu -cdrom ele-xxx.iso -user-net -m 128. Download
ftp.se.linux.org/Linux/distributions/ele/ Signatures and checksums
0.0.2 signed md5
0.0.1 signature, md5 Comments/Ideas/Bugs?
Mail me. Changelog
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
0.0.1 (050309)
- Initial release o TODO x MAYBE + DONE
o Make desktop less depressing
o Rename user account to ele
o Include the OTR Gaim plugin and enable it by default
o Upgrade kernel
o Fix Irssi DNS-leakage
o Add SILC-support to Irssi
o Clean ugly wrapper scripts
o Do something with that smbclient
x Add a firewall
x Firefox web install
x Install GmailFS and GnuPG
x Encrypted Swap
x Webserver
+ Update Firefox
+ Make SSH use Tor
+ Make VNCviewer use Tor and SSH (partial, only SSH atm)
+ Create an option to start a Tor router (partial, needs testing)