Whonix-Host Operating System (OS) ISO

[AnonymousUser]

@HulaHoop, Re:

Xfce theming - a few suggestions

We can differentiate with wallpapers and themes. This point is a weak argument for adopting a resource heavy DE.

@AnonymousUser

Ah, of course. I vote to do that then.

I now think that XFCE with a modern-looking theme like Arc is good enough to measure up against Tails, given the resource-light advantages of XFCE (which will be even more important in a live system due to being only in RAM). Also would save time in development and troubleshooting across host and guest Whonix systems that we develop.

Continuing that in this thread, we could also differentiate further between the Whonix VM’s XFCE and the host OS XFCE by not having Whisker Menu on host. So between that, a differing background image, and a contrasting enough theme, it’ll both be different enough and the host XFCE will practically look like a skin of modern GNOME.

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@Patrick For ongoing discussion of developing an amnesic host OS (not the VM OS), is this the ideal thread (and not ‘Whonix live mode / amnesia / amnesic / non-persistent / anti-forensics’)?

Guest OS amnesia I suppose is a thing (and it’s interesting even though I don’t have a common need for it myself), but as I hope we’re all aware by now, amnesia doesn’t translate to anti-forensics if the host OS has copious data about your VirtualBox inside it, or a swap partition, etc.

So when we’re discussing our effort to make an anti-forensic Whonix, I assume this ‘host’ thread is the one to discuss it in?