I’m pleased to announce a new template for Qubes 4.2: ParrotOS.
The template is fairly minimal, with just the basics of the Parrot
system installed, and repositories configured for installation of Parrot
tools.
Tools can be installed individually or using the parrot-tools meta
packages.
You can read about Parrot Security here
The template is available from 3isec
More templates on the way, and suggestions for new templates are welcome…
There is a Parrot 6 template for Qubes 4.2.1 and is very good. i2p ONLY
i2p Snark magnet:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0d235202c5b85fdff6e933a3bb3154c5b9036fbe&dn=Parrot6+Template+4+Qubes+4.2.1&tr=http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php
i2p address:
http://tracker2.postman.i2p/index.php?view=TorrentDetail&id=78445&start=0&limit=20
Parrot 6 template and dvm:
qubes-backup-2024-07-03T114232
4.3 GB (4342620160 bytes)
sha256sum c74bce066e06f1df97e08a9c7f560daafe1fd3d6a1354e3281a474bc1cc1958e
sha512sum
2b59fd56c9091ce276f9e2f44b6b52d9176cf50e3fe94cfef867cc74b8e250dd648fec355ce0e82ed747842b36c4602674d0540b8bad058e36f5f2c30181b0b4
Restore from backup password: a
Restored from backup Sizes:
ParrotT (black): 10827.78 MiB
Parrot-Surf-dvm (blue): 2715.65 MiB
parrot-dvm: 0
I don’t tell anybody what to do or not do. This is a Parrot 6 Qubes 4.2.1 template and dvm. It was updated 2024-07-03.
I use similar on ALL my new Qubes OS installs BEFORE I go online. I also use a USB GPS for accurate time. I was hacked hundred of times for clock offsets greater than 0.2 seconds. Key-servers, Update-Servers and Network-Bootstrap are notorious for time attacks.
Some explanations:
OpenSnitch: If you don’t want to learn how to use it, click on the icon with a cloud and 2 arrows and Pause it. It is an awsome program.
Updates: I don’t update often… because I don’t want to be attacked on updates. Your choice.
If you have a USB-GPS hardware dongle and it has position the command ./gpstimeT1.sh should set the time for the attached VM to 0.0* offset. Maximum retries per minute is 3.
AnonSurf: type into a terminal anonsurf and you get the instructions.
Icecat has some snags… and does not show in the menu but nothing major.
Min is a very good browser.
On a new install I use parrot-dvm for sys-net, sys-firewall, with almost no adjustments. For sys-usb I use Parrot-Surf-dvm because I have 2 options to display cgps and 2 options to set gpstime.
1./home/user/gpsd-gp/opt/gnu/bin/cgps
2. cgps (with a large terminal window)
3. ./gpstimeT1.sh or ./gpstimeT2.sh will set your time offset of 0.0*seconds.
After I set the time in sys-usb, in Dom0 terminal: sudo qvm-sync-clock. sys-usb is my clock VM and if I set my Qubes firewall for sys-usb to allow only udp on port 123, I SOMETIMES connected to sys-firewall. You can set a cron job to run gpstimeT1.sh
bla…bla…bla…
Most of i2p people can run circles around me and spit, and I would think it’s raining. On Qubes Forum the situation is reversed. I did NOT include i2p to leave doubt of my stupidity.
This is a “polished” not Polish or French template. It will take Qubes developers/maintainers another generation to achive this type of detail. Maybe in the next life I’ll do a Kaisen or Guix which currently have problems.
Why is Parrot template of @unman very heavyweight?
I make parrot-minimal template from debian-12-template, after installed parrot-core template is 1362 MiB.
After installed parrot-core and parrot-meta-privacy package, template size is 5376 MiB.
My method: