[lotuseclat79]

How to be anonymous online with Incognito.

There is a 2009 release .iso file from the Incognito download website. In the future they are considering migrating away from Gentoo Linux to possibly Ubuntu according to latest news. I hope they use the generic-pae (new linux image release) under Ubuntu 9.10 the development of which is underway for release in October 2009, so that those of us with 4GB (32-bit processor populated motherboards, not wishing to install the 64-bit release for PAE) can use all or most of 4GB instead of 3GB.

I am trying to test out the new 2009 release, but the CD-RW disc that I used is coming up with a booting problem that repeats:
isolinux: Disk error 10, AX=4280, drive EF
Boot failed: press a key to retry ...

I am about to try another CD-RW disc to see if I can even boot the release. It comes with a .DIGEST file with md5 sums - my download checked out, and there is also a .asc file to check the gpg signature with a public key which needs to be added to your keyring. See: GPG/PGP Key Series for more information on verifying downloads with gpg public keys. This series is worth the bookmark for future reference.

Note: Tor is at release 2.1.19, and Tork is at release 0. 31.1 from sourceforge.net. You can compile Tork for the KDE environment by following the instructions How to configure/compile/install tork source code for KDE 4.1.2 Intrepid Ibex (I used what I had compiled for Intrepid on Jaunty). I highly recommend you use the latest release of Tor (security updates) and Tork with Polipo instead of Privoxy as Polipo (which can be launched from a user account as a background process with & at the end of the polipo command) does pipelining (which Privoxy does not) for a better user experience.

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Ok, my CD-RW disc has Disk error problems, and using another CD-RW disc got a good burn and was able to bootup ok.

I had two problems with the beta release:
1) F2 did not present a verbose mode, and
2) the mouse did not work

Other than those two things it booted up ok, but was not usable - unless I suppose I should try keyboard shortcut commands - time to get out the cheat sheets and try again.

I sent feedback to the author at his website with other comments and recommendation to use the new linux image generic-pae release due out with Karmic Koala (9.10) in October release time frame.

Currently, I am using my own roll of the latest Tor, Tork, Polipo on Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and it comes up on the Tor connection in less than 15-20 seconds with Torbutton in Icecat green and an http request to verify that my ip address is anonymous (i.e. not my real ip address).

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Got an email back from the author on those problems, and I will be attempting to follow the advice to determine if they are real problems or can be avoided.

Anyone else try out the release and had a problem or two? Let's hear your experience.

There is a 2008 release you can try out at the download website that works.

-- Tom

[itsjusme]

I just downloaded the incognito-i686-2009_0-beta.iso file from cjb.net. through your link above. I`m using it as we speak. Havent played with it much yet, still reading trying to learn how to use tor. Burned to cd-r and everything appears to be working, verbose mode, mouse, internet, took tor a good while to load and initialise. Reminds me of some of the older versions of knoppix. It`s slow, but most of the live cd`s are. I`m gonna try it on another machine tomorrow and see if it will load into ram to speed it up a little, dont have enough on this machine. It`ll be interesting to hear what others have found

[lotuseclat79]

Hi itsjusme,

Thanks for the feedback. I am still experiencing mouse problems - I have a Logitech USB Optical keyboard and mouse.

What releases of Tork and Tor is the beta release using? I know it still uses KDE 3.5 as I can now boot it up, but have no mouse control, so I can't use it yet.

-- Tom

[itsjusme]

TOR version is 0.2.0.34 R18423
TORK is 0.31
KDE is 3.5.9
VIDALIA is 0.1.12
Last night everything seemed to be working ok, i was anonymous, with a different IP address, went to several sites with no problem. This morning, TOR says it`s enabled and working , but i get this when i try to try to open any site or even do a search.
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I am guessing that this is a network problem since it was working last night, but it could be a bug. Maybe i can play with it some more tonight and see.