[nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

[Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs]

That's pretty much how it happened. Bill was basically project lead and 
took over everything with some guy from Ubuntu who was back and forth, 
think his name was tony. Or maybe that was the main guy, it's been a 
while. Eventually he just gave it up. My biggest issue is a lot of 
people call it a "secure OS," including commtechusa if you care to look 
at that site. I was just curious what they offered. Last I looked, Vinux 
recommended not updating and they were on an older version of 
Ubuntu--both not really paths to security. The updates was because 
things would break, but that still means you're not all that secure if 
you ever leave your house and your personal router.
On 5/22/2014 9:44 AM, John Heim via nfbcs wrote:
> My experience as of about 1 year ago was that sonar was a way more 
> polished product than vinux. I've seen a lot of questions about vinux 
> like when is the new version coming out, why is it still based on some 
> old version of ubuntu. Like so many open source projects, there was 
> probably one person, maybe two, driving the project and when they ran 
> out of steam, the project slowed to a crawl.
>
> I was so impressed with sonar that I put it on my machine at home. And 
> I put it on what I call my drop dead emergency machine here at work. 
> Sonar is that solid.
>
> The one problem I have with sonar is that they are switching from 
> basing their distro on ubuntu to basing it on arch linux. I will 
> probably drop sonar once that conversion is complete. I have to stay 
> with a debian fork because my job is to support debian.  What I'd 
> really like is to have debian be so accessible that we wouldn't need 
> either sonar or vinux. Well, one can dream.
>
> On 05/21/14 20:05, David Andrews via nfbcs wrote:
>> Hi Jim et al:
>>
>> I have a Windows XP laptop that I am thinking of installing a Linux 
>> system on, to play and learn a little.  What are 
>> advantages/disadvantages to Sonar versus Vinux?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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