Whonix-Host Operating System (OS) ISO

[Patrick]

from https://forums.whonix.org/t/tails-whonix-its-doable-heres-how-can-we-offer-it-as-a-variant-like-qubes-whonix/7148/35

@AnonymousUser

BTW we need a name that is actually good.

‘Whonix host’ communicates nothing. It may give the impression that it’s ‘double Whonix’ if you’re not careful (i.e. a host OS that doesn’t real meaningful value) and people won’t investigate what it offers.

People already know the brand name of ‘Tails’ and what it offers. ‘Whonix’ is a brand name that’s equally great now, but another word like ‘amnesic’ or ‘deniable’ also needs to be in the title to be eye-grabbing and indicate what it is.

My coinage of ‘Deniable Whonix’ is too esoteric, even though it’s eye-grabbing.

How about Live Whonix ?

I see that the words in reverse form (‘Whonix Live’) is the other sub-project, but in the larger context of Tor community and Tails, when people think ‘live’ they think the WHOLE system at the hard drive level, and amnesia (not just a VM resetting itself). So a re-naming could be the new amnesic host OS to be ‘Live Whonix’ and the other one to be something like Whonix in ‘ Live VM ’ mode.

Yes, a good name for Whonix Host is needed as Whonix Host alone isn’t very descriptive / not sounding very exciting.

Whonix Live (Live Mode for Kicksecure) isn’t very popular yet since Whonix 15 hasn’t been released as stable yet. Nothing written in stone yet. So we could “hijack” our own name, move Live Mode for Kicksecure to elsewhere and then use Whonix Live for the Whonix Host.

What I don’t like about Whonix Live is that it sounds too limited too.

• It’s not only Live.
• The great thing is, we can combine the best of both worlds. Boot into persistent mode, upgrade everything and on demand reboot into Live mode.
• It’s also based on hardened debian (rename required) which comes with many enhanced default security enhancement such as jitterentropy-rng installed by default.

Whonix Host name suggestions welcome.