On 11/19/2017 01:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I have been using Qubes 3.2 for about 5 months and love it...thank you all who
have contributed!
I am a noobie so be gentle...I am also by no means an expert at Linux however I
have been forced to learn quick.
I managed to upgrade my Fedora template to 25 and have most of my VMs running
on Fedora25 except for the default Debian8(Which I have reinstalled since my
initial Qubes installation), my Whonix WS and GW are also defaults. I have also
periodically upgraded these templates.
I have some basic questions I am hoping I can get some help with:
1) It seems that alot of the experts use Debian as thier working VMs(Personal,
Work, Banking, etc...) and have Fedora as the sys-firewall, sys-net, etc...is
it more secure to use Debian in this way? Am I just as secure as using Fedora
for my working VMs? I would have to think hacking Xen, then Fedora, then Debian
would be harder...
There are three issues that stand out for me:
* Fedora is the only distro I've seen that doesn't sign their repository
manifest. The idea is if you want full security for updates you pay $$$
for RHEL (Red Hat controls the Fedora project).
* Fedora releases expire (stop getting security updates) after a
relatively short period (again, idea is pay $$$ to Red Hat for long-term
updates).
* Fedora repositories are pretty sparse compared to the software
available in Debian and Ubuntu.
These are the main reasons I choose to use Debian over Fedora. Debian
templates also work great for sys-net and firewall/VPN.
2) I have been able to copy/move files from Fedora VMs to other Fedora VMs but I have struggled to try and copy/move
files from Debian(or Whonix-ws) to Fedora? Fedora has the "File" option from my "Q" menu(top
right), when I am in the files I can right click and "Copy to Other AppVM" or "Open in DispVM". How
do I access Debians version?
The debian-8 template is close to a 'minimal' release and comes without
a file browser. You can copy from the terminal with the 'qvm-copy-to-vm'
command, or install a supported file browser (the one used in Fedora
template is nautilus).
When installing nautilus, remember that its meant to work in concert
with the rest of Gnome... it may not work right if you install it by
specifying 'nautilus' (also you will have to install the python-gtk2
package separately). The easiest way to get this working like it does in
Fedora is to run 'sudo tasksel' and select the Gnome desktop for
installation.
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