looking for a "good" accessible linux distro

[Don Raikes]

I appreciate all the suggestions.

FYI: according to a blog post I read the arch packages are not signed, and even if they are pacman does not verify signatures when installing.

Since I am interested in security, this is going to eliminate arch from my choices.

I just installed knoppix Adriane 7.0.5 onto my desktop system and will spend some time working with it to see if it will meet my needs.



-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Prescott [mailto:kprescott at coolip.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: looking for a "good" accessible linux distro

I suggest Debian  or Arch.
Debian works out of the box as long as you use software speech, and you can use the modified arch installer for Arch if you choose that.
I am not sure if the Debian installer talks, because I build my debian images in the Amazon cloud and then download them and image them onto the hard drives I use.
It is a strange process, but I get the exact stuff I want installed for each machine.
I also maintain a "shell" machine which is a netbook running Debian Testing that I use to connect to any machine that only has ssh access.


On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Don Raikes wrote:

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> I have been working with linux for over 12 years now.  I have used redhat, fedora, debian and ubuntu, but now I need to move from ubuntu to something different and hopefully more accessible.
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> The latest few releases of ubuntu have become almost totally inaccessible with thee new unity desktop.
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> My goal is to create an accessible linux livecd with a ton of accessible cyber security tools like cyber forensics and network security tools.
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> I don't mind compiling the tools myself and doing that part, I just need a good baseline linux distro.
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> Most of the tools are console-based, so something that boots to the console is great as long as I can go into an x-windows environment if necessary.
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> I am open to suggestions and would appreciate some tips.
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