What I would like is all the best Monero stuff (Wallets / Mining Tools / customized browser bookmarks, etc.) preloaded and configured on a full blown Linux Distribution, delivered as a boot-able, installation ISO image where I can burn a DVD or create a USB Startup Disk. You may want to create several flavors, one for low end hardware like what’s in MoneroNodo, and one for dedicated mining rigs if that makes sense. I would want the version from the MoneroNodo released first.

It’s ok to offer some images for various hypervisors like Gnome Boxes, VMWare, and VirtualBox, but the best format of all would be the LXC container in a tarball released to Turnkey Linux like they use in Proxmox, because the performance is much, much better than any virtual machine and it’s most lightweight of the other formats, making the best use of system resources.

I could help test and would donate, especially if the LXC container were released to Turnkey Linux and was made available thru that channel on not a custom download/install.

  • tusker
    3·
    5 months ago

    Maybe create a bounty for this and someone may pick it up that is familiar with building a distro. https://bounties.monero.social/

    It might be better to work to get all the Monero related tools into the repositories of existing major linux distributions so anyone can install them easily no matter what they use.

    • prancing389OPM
      2·
      5 months ago

      Great ideas, the piecemeal idea sounds good for Dev’s, but the prepackaged distro makes it more idiotproof. I know I’d be discouraged if I was sent to Github and expected to do a bunch of command line prep. Running an install script that is well tested and comprehensive in nature is ok, but manually compiling and debugging is beyond most users capability.

  • VolunTerryEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Great idea. I’ve been hoping it would start getting bundled with lightweight bootable privacy focused distros like TAILS and such, but your proposal is even better and more comprehensive.

    A dedicated and reliable team to maintain would be a necessity too obviously. I can’t commit to that, but would toss some XMR at a funding proposal if you end up working a project up around this.