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#71 WHERE IS THE FREAKIN ISO
Every damn page advertising this says "LiveCD" and the last ISO on this site is 3 years old, and back in the moldy 2.0 days. Someone already submitted a ticket mentioning this with less noise in the middle of last year. The least you could do is update your pages with something saying you require a closed source POS commercial product from VMWare to even get close to possibly making a LiveCD, which is what most people are led to look for in the first place. You guys additionally don't update the site with any information on that process, add notes to the download link describing what is being downloaded (and surprise- its a proprietary clumsy VMWare package of a dozen files)- in fact there isn't anything on any of the info pages that appears to have been updated in years. I did see something from years ago mentioning something about how you can't figure out how to fit it on a iso, even though thats clearly BS since the 2.x iso is 3GB. If you can't be bothered to maintain the project why don't you hand it off to some folks in the OWASP netwok who would be glad to see a modern iso distro out there? At least edit your advertising to quit calling it a f'ing livecd!
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First of all, I would like to direct your attention to the description here on sourceforge:
Which clearly states that it is a VM. A VM, btw, that runs on Virtual Box as well as VMWare products. And Virtual Box is gasp opensource... so much for your entire argument that we require any closed source POS commercial products.
As far as development goes, we recognized a while ago that just attempting to maintain a VM is too cumberson to manage in a distributed way. The obvious huge problem is no actual codebase, so no way to merge changes from multiple people. So to correct this we have started to work on a Debian package (see https://github.com/SamuraiWTF/samuraiwtf). This package is meant as a first step to ultimately making SamuraiWTF available through a repo instead of as a monolithic VM or ISO, and will make it easier to work on in a distributed fashion. Needless to say, since the package is not yet ready to use, we are still stuck with a VM for now.
And finally, the only reason I've bothered to respond to this at all is because you are such a great example of why many opensource projects struggle so much. You seem to be a demanding troll who takes from the opensource community but never gives back. You obviously don't "get it" at all. Every person on this project has a day job, and still contributes to multiple opensource projects. Many opensource projects would be much further along if all the complainers (like yourself) decided to contribute instead of complain. But if you are one of those people who would rather complain about something (or throw a temper tantrum) than fix it yourself, you deserve nothing more than crappy commercial POS software.