Re: [Tails-dev] Please correct obsolete statements about Tai…

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Autore: Maxim Kammerer
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To: intrigeri
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Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Please correct obsolete statements about Tails
Hi,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:52, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Pages containing such outdated statements include:
>
>  * "Privacy-Enhancing Live Distribution" section on the homepage
>  * "Network security" section on http://dee.su/liberte-security


Indeed, I removed the transparent proxying parts.

> While you're at it, the features comparison in the "Privacy-Enhancing
> Live Distribution" applies to Tails 0.8 and is worth an update (e.g.
> we've removed the HTP user firewall exception for months). If it's not
> constantly kept up-to-date, such a section is bound to contain
> obsolete stuff, so I'm not sure how useful it is.


True, but the reason the section exists is that people were constantly
asking me about the functional differences between Liberté and Tails
(i.e., besides the purpose, usecases, etc.). I would just remove it
otherwise.

>  * What do you mean by the "Controlled automounting" feature?
>    (links to https://tails.boum.org/todo/USB_drive_mounting_options/)
>    FYI Tails does not automatically mount anything else that its own
>    filesystems.


Well, I don't want to write a lot in that list — the meaning is that
when automounting drives, the mount flags are tightly controlled — see
https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/usr/local/sbin/ps-mount.
Tails doesn't have automounting, but drives can be mounted using other
user-friendly means, so it's not an essential difference.

>  * What kind of "Configurable multilingualization and UI
>    internationalization" has Liberté over Tails?


Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the GSoC-sponsored work on the
Tails greeter. Liberté has all the UI/input languages and relevant
fonts bundled in ready form, no need to run "localedef" or anything
like that. There is a customization dialog for selecting UI language
and timezone (and, recently, keyboard layout). When I added that item,
fonts were still added and removed from
https://tails.boum.org/todo/localization_at_runtime/. Did the
situation change? What does this line mean: “Add an Incognito-like
boot menu to choose the language at runtime, instead of building
per-language images.”?

>  * What kind of "Browser timezone sanitation" does Liberté do that
>    Tails does not?


Liberté supports timezones, but sets the browser timezone to UTC
separately. I.e., pretty much what the “rethink timezones” page talks
about.

Best regards,
Maxim

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Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute)