Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] offer:New package in DL!

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> Hi, this is my first compilation for the DL-distro - please help me if there are any bugs.
> Feature: Adds Tor (http://tor.eff.org) functionality into DL.
> 
> Why this?
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> 
> I think it is important to have some freedom in the internet and don´t let 3rd parties
> make money with my own personal information - especially when i´am not knowing this!
> That was the reason i gave Tor a try. I liked it much and after a few days i was setting
> up my own Tor-server.
> Unfortunately there was no tor-package in DL. So i have to install a second machine inside
> my net and forward traffic to that PC. This works but it is not very economic, cause my
> Firewall has enough resources to handle this. That was the time i digged into the
> buildsystem of DL and now Tor works. ;-D
> 
> I´am not an expert and maybe there are good reasons not to include such packages, let´s
> discuss it!

I saw a presentation given a Tor developer on DVD, and tried the client
afterwords.  It's a good package, and I have no objection to adding the
server to DL.  I vote "yes" to adding Tor.

BTW, I'm not sure how safe it is to run the Tor server on a firewall, as
you seem to want to do.  But that's up to you ...   :-)

 - BS