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AnikOS

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Creating encrypted volume for personal data using TrueCrypt

Libreoffice Write, Calc and Draw applications

Personal Firewall Frontend with Firewall Builder

Description

AnikOS now is an effort to build a secure and usable linux distro to use on any security-critical Desktop or Server. AnikOS is based on current Hardened Gentoo and built entirely from source.

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Features

Hardened Linux Kernel 3.2.9 optimized for Desktop-oriented tasks (with GRsecurity and PAX patchsets with Full Execution Audit enabled and was built with Transparent Hugepage and Process Grouping enabled and configured for Low Latency Desktop);
Glibc Hardened 2.14.1, GCC Hardened 4.6.2;
XZ (lzma2) compression method is used for squashfs root loop (for LiveDVD mode);
Xorg Server 1.11.4 and Mesa OpenGL environment 8.0.1;
Cinnamon 1.3.1 and Gnome 3.2.1 with AnikOS artwork;
Boost tools 1.48
Wine 1.4.0 for running various MS Windows applications is secure environment;
Office applications by LibreOffice 3.4.5.2;
Web Browser Mozilla Firefox 11.0 with Anonymous Web Browsing support using TOR Network;
Mail Client: Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0;
Data Sync and Data Backup features by DejaDup and Grsync;
Other alpplications: VoIP support by Ekiga, P2P protocols support by Transmission and some other staff (will be customized till first Beta release);
SMB File Sharing by Samba 3.6.3;
GParted with the following FS support: ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, fat, ntfs;
Personal Firewall GUI (iptables frontend) by Firewall Builder 4.2 predefined rules for typical workstation use;
PSAD 2.1.7 - the Intrusion Detection and Log Analysis tool that uses IPTables;
Anonymous Internet resources interconnection feature through Tor Network;
Saving personal data into encrypted data container using TrueCrypt;
LUKS encrypted block device support using CryptSetup;
GPGme as PGP implementation for File Integrity Control and File Encryption;
PAM_USB pam module to provide authentification using external USB devices;
Package Manager with GUI for managing and updating binary software (TESTING);
System Locales: en_US (default) and ru_RU with full UTF-8 support;
Code optimizations: -Os -pipe -march=nocona -mtune=core2 (for more compatibility now);
CPU instructions support by software: mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 (no ssse3+ for more compatibility now).

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