Re: [qubes-users] Newbie Qubes questions.. please help!

2016-09-08 Thread lemondezurich
On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 1:19:09 AM UTC-7, Connor Page wrote: > Think of Whonix as a possible compartment of your digital life that gives > more anonymity online. It would be more or less securely separated from other > compartments. In order to save space and admin effort common parts o

Re: [qubes-users] Newbie Qubes questions.. please help!

2016-09-08 Thread Connor Page
Think of Whonix as a possible compartment of your digital life that gives more anonymity online. It would be more or less securely separated from other compartments. In order to save space and admin effort common parts of these compartments (i.e., the root filesystem, kernels, modules) are made

Re: [qubes-users] Newbie Qubes questions.. please help!

2016-09-07 Thread boethius
On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 6:23:01 PM UTC-7, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 09/07/2016 06:46 PM, lemondezur...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, I could use some clarification on the below: > > > > 1. Is Qubes an actual OS/distro, or do you still have to pick a distro? I > > think it's based on Fedora,

Re: [qubes-users] Newbie Qubes questions.. please help!

2016-09-07 Thread Chris Laprise
On 09/07/2016 06:46 PM, lemondezur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I could use some clarification on the below: 1. Is Qubes an actual OS/distro, or do you still have to pick a distro? I think it's based on Fedora, right? But you can have templates that use other OSes? Correct. Its currently based on

[qubes-users] Newbie Qubes questions.. please help!

2016-09-07 Thread lemondezurich
Hi, I could use some clarification on the below: 1. Is Qubes an actual OS/distro, or do you still have to pick a distro? I think it's based on Fedora, right? But you can have templates that use other OSes? 2. Is Whonix basically an add-on to Qubes that allows more anonymity online? Or is it a