There is another reason for this. Let's say for hypothetical purposes that a particular form of Linux used becomes the favorite of state actors and those actors do lots of damage with it. At that point it would be a reasonable security precaution to clean a system down to bare iron and install another form of linux. If you have the next linux to install and already know how to do that installation in the event that becomes necessary you will be able to do the job. Not having other forms and/or ignorance on how to do this puts you behind one or more 8 balls. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 1 May 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Nothing wrong at all Karen. I am doing what I am doing for how shall I > put this experimental purposes only. If you don't test these things you > don't know. > > > -- > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > Please use in that order." > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Wed, 1 May 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > > Jude, > > I have an odd question? > > Is there something wrong with your current preferred Linux distribution? > > A problem that you feel this one can provide better? > > Karen > > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 May 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > Burning gentoo onto a flash drive probably burns the image with all > > > permissions intact. > > > If those permissions are read-only and if the installer does not change > > > any of those permissions it will be impossible to edit anything and have > > > the edits saved. > > > This may explain why espeakup cannot be started after booting the > > > installer. If that is the case, the accessibility project in order to > > > promote screen reader accessibility use in gentoo will need to do a little > > > more writing which will expand the espeakup start up process after boot. > > > If I could run slint and actually reach into gentoo on a hard drive in its > > > own mount point I might be able to inspect file permissions for files in > > > gentoo and if I had chroot access into gentoo change the necessary file > > > permissions so once edits got done those edits would stick. > > > Many years ago a process for doing this was put up on the speakup mailing > > > list and I didn't need it at the time so deleted it on this end. I > > > remember it involved using loop in some way. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > > > Please use in that order." > > > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > > > > > > > > >
