changelog

turnkey-bitkey-13.0 (1) turnkey; urgency=low

  * Initial public release of BitKey.

  * Minimal desktop environment:

    - Standalone window manager (metacity).
    - Customized desktop keybindings for window manipulation (convenience).
    - Custom packaged metacity theme (zukitwo).
    - Cursor theme (dmz-white).
    - Lightweight application launcher (wbar).
    - Terminal emulator with customized keybindings (mrxvt).
    - Network manager with default configured interfaces (wicd).
    - Includes popular wifi modules out of the box.
    - File manager for accessing file system / media devices (thunar).
    - USB storage device auto-mounting support (convenience).

  * Boot to desktop:

    - Supports 3 boot modes: cold-offline, cold-online, hot-online.
    - Networking components are purged in cold-offline mode (security).
    - Application launchers customized depending on boot mode (UX).
    - Preseeded inithooks for uninterrupted boot process (convenience).
    - Different wallpapers depending on boot mode as a visual queue (UX).
    - Getting started prompt (UX).

  * Electrum:

    - Custom patch for watch-only to support boot modes (UX).
    - Custom developed electrum-wrapper (UX, security).
    - Wrapper leverages LUKS encrypted loopback files for wallet storage (security).
    - Custom developed passphrase dialog with zxcvbn integration (security).
    - Watch-only seedless wallet automatically created (convenience).

  * Chromium:

    - Customized defaults for BitKey (homepage, bookmarks).
    - Launcher defaults to incognito mode and deletes cache (privacy).
    - Suppressed welcome page, bubbles, promo tab (UX).

  * Bundled JS apps:

    - Launched in chromium app mode with dummy proxy settings.
    - BitAddress: Alternative to Electrum for wallet creation.
    - ZXCVBN: Passphrase strength estimator.

 -- Alon Swartz <alon@turnkeylinux.org>  Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:21:08 +0300