Free as in Freedom

Many Americans don't even know the Free Software movement exists. But they should.

As "Artificial Intelligence", "AI", "cloud computing" and other forms of data mining and digital surveillance force their way in to modern society at an alarming rate, the Free Software movement has taken on new importance for keeping ourselves connected on our terms, not those of the Orwellian globalists.

Learn how to freeze your technology in time, keep your computer world clean from the dystopian technology creep and data theft, while staying connected in a healthy way on YOUR terms with Free and Open Source Software and the Linux Operating System.

Because it became a tradition to post nostalgia pictures on the weekends, here's an alarm clock that is seems like every American household in history somehow had. 🤣

Digital Enslavement vs. Freedom

Learning to break away from the emerging government/'big tech' technocracy is one of the most important, healthy things you can do for yourself, now and for your digital future. Linux is Digital Freedom!

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PRAYER

Holy Spirit, as we enter this holy season of Advent, help us to become instruments of Your wisdom and truth.

Fill us with the grace of Christ our Lord, that we may bear witness to the good news of salvation, drawing all people into the hope of Your kingdom.

Inspire our waiting hearts, we pray, and make straight our paths to receive the Prince of Peace.

In this time of anticipation, draw us nearer to You, that we may behold the fullness of the Father revealed in the Son.

We pray all this in the powerful name of Our Lord, Savior, and the Truth that sets us free, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

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This group has reached a significant milestone: Releasing our own computer Operating System brand, for now, in the form of a open source Linux distribution. Complete replacement software for Microsoft Windows or MacOS, for any intel or amd compatible desktop or laptop. Free from adware, spyware, CCP interference or any kind of censorship. We can control and customize it per the needs of our users, all the way down to the core.

Yes, a significant milestone that opens many new possibilities. It will take some time for what it truly means to sink in. It is still very much a early release, but it is completley functional, stable, independent and reliable even in its first release version.

https://cnix.org

Telegram is very limiting. 🤣 I want to give this post TEN ❤️'s, to include a bottom-of-my-heart THANK YOU to Jeff and team! ❤️
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Thank you for waking people up to the evils of Windows and Apple and helping us to find freedom in the Foss world. I've taken your classes and it's changed my life. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to seeing what this distro has to offer!!

A starting point. A place to start over from. CNIX is based on the Linux kernel today, but doesn't have to be. It is versatile. New release versions can be built with other "Unix-like" kernels such as BSD, or a custom-patched Linux kernel, if anything needs to be removed from the code. With our own brand, there is no limit as to where we can go from here.

https://cnix.org

wow CNIX looks great ...and Telegram and KeepassXc installed by default..spot on!

I tried the USB live boot from the iso and it runs well on my 10 year old machine. I come from Linux Mint and will need to pick up on the XFCE.org desktop environment.

Installed and running without problems. Looks great!

Is a firewall recommended? I don't see one like simplefirewall included.

I am impressed by CNIX. Downloaded the iso, and to check it out, I fired up quickemu to install it on a 16 Gbyte qcow2 file. Worked like a charm.

Running cnix in qemu-kvm. Looks great with excellent initial app selection: keypassXC, Remmina, gParted, timeshift... I feel right at home. I sent this message from the Telegram Desktop in cnix !

Picture: Jeffrey Peterson at Google HQ, Mountain View, CA, in the year 2015.

I knew change was needed, though it took time for my thoughts to distill to complete clarity. For a very long time, even long before I, myself, broke away from the “establishment” technology mentality, that there would be a break-up between the “big tech” “deep state” computing complex and everyday Americans. And by extension, many people in other countries, too. It is inevitable.

The dystopian “feature creep” - facial recognition, surveillance, and now built-in, mandatory artificial intelligence with access to everything we do on our computers...assumes we're too dumb to take action. With the realities surfacing of the forces of evil trying to hijack our entire country, our way of life, everything we believe in, now is a time when that inevitable break-up between Americans and “big tech” will start to occur. It is not the end of "big tech". It is the start of significant changes.

A slow change at first, and then many start to realize: “I can't believe what I was allowing to happen in my digital life before I woke up.” "I can't believe I blindly trusted them." "I can't believe I didn't even care or think about it."

The sovereignty of our data, free from interference and unwanted spying, the seperation, segregation, ownership and control of digital property and rights, the dividing line between humans and machines, full stop, is a bigger issue than many first realize.

CNIX is cool. I ran a demo on a Lenova X140e laptop and it performed nicely. It eve picked up my printer automatically. I like it and will watch its development. For now I really like Zorin on my Macbook Air. Congrats.

The live CNIX OS runs well on my 2012 MacBook Pro. It picked up the Broadcom network modules for ethernet and wifi. I'll do a full install and customize the XFCE environment to how I like it. XFCE is my Desktop Environment of choice (I've been using it for years).

CNIX nstalled on a Lenovo Flex 15 from my Ventoy USB stick smoothly.
Everything running well including touchscreen. Discovered neofetch was already installed. Got the Discover Software running on wifi. Will test further with printer, scanner and the LibreOffice suite.
Really nice installer. It saw the existing Mint Cinnamon install and happily shrunk that partition to make room for CNIX. Boots right into CNIX or I can boot to Mint if I bring up grub with F12 (on Lenovo). The first start I was offered to login with "user" (I forgot that was the default user.) and it wouldn't take my user/password. I restarted and logged in perfectly.
Im back on my QEMU-KVM CNIX posting to this chat from the Telegram Desktop. Awesome work JEFF.PRO and gang!

As it turns out, considering our Freedoms, our individual rights, and the way our country works...decentralization is a good idea, and centralized control is often a bad idea.

The American founding fathers got it right. They wanted to avoid the possibility of a powerful central authority that could potentially become tyrannical, as they had experienced under British rule. So they created a decentralized system of government where power was distributed among individual states.

Yes, the federal government is messed up. We're working on addressing that. Yet, the point here is that centralized control is often a bad idea as it relates to Freedom.

Centralized control is certainly a bad idea when it comes to technology. The idea of centralized control over the mass population paired with surveillance and artificial intelligence is a communist’s dream, the implications are so awful we’d prefer to not even imagine it possible.

But it is, and it’s arguably furthered in modern day by way of “big tech” dominance over individuals, in all of the ways that happens. About two and a half years ago, the Jeff.pro group was launched to speak to these very issues.