Tails: Privacy for anyone anywhere

[SealLion]

After nearly five years of development, Tails, a Debian-based distribution known for its strong privacy features and pre-configured for anonymous web browsing, has reached version 1.0: "Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.0, is out

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Version 1.0 is often an important milestone that denotes the maturity of a free software project. The first public version of what would become Tails was released on June 23 2009, when it was called Amnesia. That was almost five years ago. Tails 1.0 marks the 36th stable release since then.

https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html

[shadowww]

Good for Tails to finally hit 1.0. I've used it years ago as live CD because preinstalled TOR bundle, which is great for plug-and-play anonymity anywhere.

Nowdays among security focused linux distributions I think Qubes is worth of mentioning. Its unique system seemingly sandboxes every application it is very own sparate virtual machine, thus protecting integrity of system from potential bugs / vulnerabilities of single application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS