A Linux Distro for Politics?

by kir Posted 2012/07/07 00:22:55

Related Topics: Legislation, Wikipedia, Search, Politics, Networking, Politician, Tor, Social Networking, Politicians

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	Yes I would.	4 votes	57%
	No I would not.	2 votes	29%
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Would you use a Linux Distribution geared towards politics?

Features might include:

A complete mirror of Project Gutenberg's book library
A mirror of Wikipedia
Integrated access to govtrack data on politicians and legislation
Built in social networking functionality through Tor
A search bot to help sort through all the information.

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Zeruke 2012/07/12 03:32:15

Yes I would.

I already use Ubuntu Linux as it is..... but for something dealing with politics I think it should be pointed out that a lightweight desktop environment like xfce for that matter everything probably should be as lightweight as possible

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kir to Zeruke 2012/07/12 12:01:17

+1
I was probably going to go that route; I'm not quite sure yet. I'll obviously be using a base distro to start; I'm too lazy to roll my own distro out from scratch.

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Zeruke to kir 2012/07/12 18:15:52

+1
I really wouldn't call it very lazy since most flavors of Linux are based on another these days

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kir to Zeruke 2012/07/12 18:18:44

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True. I have a pretty good idea on which two choices I'm going to select from. I kind of want to have classes on how to properly use such a distro as well. I want a person using such a powerful tool to have full knowledge of how to use it properly.

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Zeruke to kir 2012/07/12 22:11:57

while classes would be good its also where good documentation is needed too since people learn differently

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kir to Zeruke 2012/07/12 22:13:45 (edited)

That's true; it's just that I'd be producing a rather powerful tool given the amount of network software as well as political information stored in the distro. I'd rather not have people misuse it.

We have enough idiot script kiddies out there already.

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Zeruke to kir 2012/07/12 23:01:21

that's understandable

I wouldn't know for sure on the script thing since I haven't looked much into scripts for programming except a little bit of java

oh you may want to edit the comment because of "I'd rather not have people not misuse it."

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