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Title: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: wobber on July 29, 2010, 07:37:00 AM I started a little project, a minimalistic install of slackware for people that use bitcoin and I need your feedback to know what software would you like in it.
So far we have Tor, Privoxy and it's GUI, Vidalia and as a WM, XFCE. I'd like to know if Tor should be enabled system-wide by default too. PS. The project will be free. Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: eugene2k on July 29, 2010, 10:12:26 AM I think you should first define your priorities. Why would anybody want to use your OS? Surely not just because it has a few programs installed by default?
Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: Anonymous on July 29, 2010, 10:19:49 AM I think you should first define your priorities. Why would anybody want to use your OS? Surely not just because it has a few programs installed by default? Something lightweight like this would be nice on a low powered device I call a "transaction computer".You could transfer your coin to your ultra secure "transaction computer" and know there is an extremely small chance any trading is trackable or logged.Maybe such a device would only connect to the network to send and receive your coins and then close up tighter than a fish's bum otherwise lol. Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: lachesis on July 29, 2010, 10:33:45 PM Do you have a project page?
Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: jgarzik on July 29, 2010, 10:40:45 PM Something lightweight like this would be nice on a low powered device I call a "transaction computer".You could transfer your coin to your ultra secure "transaction computer" and know there is an extremely small chance any trading is trackable or logged.Maybe such a device would only connect to the network to send and receive your coins and then close up tighter than a fish's bum otherwise lol. The transaction database isn't really lightweight in terms of disk space, especially if bitcoins become popular. So, if a transaction computer needs disk space, why not install a normal distro with better support? Any micro-distribution is going to be under-audited, and suffer a lag time on security patches to the base OS -- not exactly the ideal target for a "locked up tight" transaction computer. Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: Anonymous on July 30, 2010, 06:53:12 AM Something lightweight like this would be nice on a low powered device I call a "transaction computer".You could transfer your coin to your ultra secure "transaction computer" and know there is an extremely small chance any trading is trackable or logged.Maybe such a device would only connect to the network to send and receive your coins and then close up tighter than a fish's bum otherwise lol. The transaction database isn't really lightweight in terms of disk space, especially if bitcoins become popular. So, if a transaction computer needs disk space, why not install a normal distro with better support? Any micro-distribution is going to be under-audited, and suffer a lag time on security patches to the base OS -- not exactly the ideal target for a "locked up tight" transaction computer. Is a client device possible with your server/desktop sitting at home which you could vpn into? Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: jgarzik on July 30, 2010, 06:58:56 AM Is a client device possible with your server/desktop sitting at home which you could vpn into? Sure. That's reinventing the client terminal, a dumb hardware device that communicates with a backend payment system. Title: patent issues (was Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development) Post by: jgarzik on July 31, 2010, 09:01:03 PM Another thing to consider is patent issues inherent in the bitcoin implementation.
bitcoin requires EC-DSA, which has been disabled in Fedora after legal review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents) I wanted to package bitcoind for Fedora, but gave up, because we cannot distribute binaries due to these patent issues. Title: Re: BitSlack - bitcoin OS in development Post by: wobber on September 04, 2010, 10:36:10 AM Project discontinued due to lack of positive feedback.
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