I have an iso uploaded to one of my websites currently. A permanent home/project page will be setup soon for it.
I started with latest Antix ISO – the 19.3 runit net amd64 distro, which is based on Debian Buster. Then added much of Kicksecure to it while utilizing as little of Antix packages as possible.
The kernel that is installed is the latest from Liqourix for the Buster build. This helped to increase operational speed.
The goal by doing this is to visually be able to plot the least amount of files needed in addition to the Whonix/Kicksecure files, for a small and fast Kicksecure distro.
Whomever downloads to test it out, should have no issues with enabling and using wifi.
Currently, the list below is everything that is installed so far.
Please don’t call it Kicksecure distro. The name Kicksecure is reserved to software officially released on the upcoming kicksecure.com domain. [1] Especially if it is being redistributed to third parties such as the public. This is for trademark reasons.
Alternative wording examples:
based on Kicksecure
fork of Kicksecure
software fork of Kicksecure
derivative of Kicksecure
Kicksecure derivative
includes software by Kicksecure
Kicksecure based
Kicksecure security hardened
If you create a deidcated homepage wciso.holt-technology.com for antiX Linux distribution you can mention “includes software by Kicksecure” but this is fully optional. (ubuntu.com also doesn’t need to say “comes with GNU GRUB”.)
There will be a Kicksecure ISO released on kicksecure.com at some point.
We already got most of the code ready due to the development of Whonix-Host Operating System Live ISO, Whonix-Host Installer where @onion_knight contributed the code for ISO creation. The ISO comes even with a calamares based installer. I don’t think it will be hard to re-use that code to generate the Kicksecure ISO. Probably requires just some adjustments to Whonix build script.
The first steps towards an official Kicksecure ISO would be would be adding this feature to “Whonix build script”. Help welcome! Then also Whonix/Whonix (the build script) should either be renamed to something more generic or forked. I am not sure yet. Would be weird in the final result to tell people “use Whonix build script to build the Kicksecure ISO”. Should become a fully independent project without much reference to Whonix to avoid conflating, confusing things.
Also due to the usual Open Source development conventions it cannot be a binary-only release. Needs to be created using a build script so anyone can rebuild it from source code without any binaries created by Kicksecure.
[1] And from whonix.org until kicksecure.com gets published.
Very glad to learn that software by Whonix / Kicksecure is useful for others and being included in derivatives!