Pegasos ODW Project
Port of JayOS to PPCin category Operating Systems
proposed by jaylewis on 16th February 2006
Project Proposal
JayOS is a live CD distro intended for use as a more secure mobileenvironment. It integrates in-RAM filesystem encryption with
plausible deniabiliy for a system that can be difficult to alter
without rebuilding. This offers a user with a high degree of data
integrity; since all filesystems are either static or encrypted,
the system is resistant to physical attacks.
The user can choose at boot time what kind of filesystem to use and
from where it should be read. Since components can be spread over
hard disks, read-only media, and removable storage, this compounds
the difficulty of proving what is encrypted swap, what is an encrypted
filesystem, and what is simply random data.
Features 2.6 kernel, unionfs, many network security and filesystem
tools, UML, and QEMU. Runs great on low-end x86 hardware. Requires only 128MB RAM and a bootable CD drive to get started.
Also included is standard desktop software. It is based on Linux From
Scratch.
I have made some headway with the PPC port of JayOS, but lack of a dedicated machine (I run OS X on my workstation) is slowing me down considerably. Free hardware would help a ton!
See the Freshmeat project page for JayOS
Also, see JayOS running itself under QEMU emulation: screenshot
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