MOFO Linux v9.0 in Development

Friends,

It has been some time since the most recent release of MOFO Linux; here is an update on the next version release. Sometime in the next couple of months, hopefully before the start of winter, MOFO Linux version 9 will hit the wires. It is being switched from an Ubuntu base to a rolling Debian Unstable / Sid. If you have tried Catbird Linux, you'll know what a lightweight and responsive system can be built on Sid. Generally, it will work much like the latest version 8 release, but better.

A key goal of version 9 is to showcase applications hardened against the current internet censorship and surveillance environment. That means end to end encryption and as much decentralization as possible, so that connectivity is still possible up to the minute the internet cables are severed. It is with a bit of rage that I note the degradation of social media and information services on the internet. As censorship dies a slow and ugly death, information warfare rises to take its place. This could not have happened at the rate it has, without the phenomenon described by Cory Doctorow as enshittification, where platforms strip away value and serve neither the users nor creators, but only the shareholders.

At the bottom line, if online media becomes worthless, you'll still have one hell of a nice Linux system in MOFO Linux, with peer to peer networking and cypher spaces still available.

Cheers,
PC (a.k.a. Cap'n Thermobaric) / MOFO Linux