Jim Shaver » security http://jshaver.com Technology, Open Source and Shiny Things Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:46:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Nubuntu http://jshaver.com/bin/nubuntu/ http://jshaver.com/bin/nubuntu/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:44:32 +0000 jim http://jshaver.com/http:/jshaver.com/blog/nubuntu/ So in my quest to find an Ubuntu based backtrack I stumbled across Nubuntu. I tried it out on my Eee PC and once I got wifi working it seemed to show promise. Based on FluxBox and with the first implementation of Cairo that I have seen. It seems to have most of the features of backtrack but it’s hard to tell with FluxBox. I have been thinking of contributing to a project like this and depending on how busy I am this semester I just might get involved.

]]> http://jshaver.com/bin/nubuntu/feed/ 0 Ubuntu Based Backtrack? http://jshaver.com/bin/ubuntu-based-backtrack/ http://jshaver.com/bin/ubuntu-based-backtrack/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:24:48 +0000 jim http://jshaver.com/http:/jshaver.com/blog/ubuntu-based-backtrack/ So I love Ubuntu Linux. I love Backtrack. I especially love some of the additions made to it recently. But the lack of apt makes it hard for me to use it to the full extent that I can. I understand that there are things like fasttrack but imagine if you could have access to the ubuntu repository.

I have made minor remixes of Ubuntu before but I haven’t done a lot of major work. Things that come to mind are adding things for which there aren’t deb packages, ripping out things that are not needed and making it boot faster. If I even get something running how would I share it and set up repositories.

I guess my question is how does one start a distribution?

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