[tor-talk] Getting of Tor Browser

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On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:46:08 -0500
David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> In the Windows download section there is a variation called Vidalia
> Bundle which allegedly sets up an environment within which the standard
> Windows version of Firefox is expected to behave nicely.  As a Windows
> user, this is what I use.
>
> I notice, however, that there is no comparable package for Linux,
> although there is a link to another page
> <https://www.torproject.org/download/download-unix.html.en> which I
> suppose means something to Unix users.

Linux version of TorBrowser just works simple like Windows too.
But "advanced" Linux users and distros developers needs a separate packages
for flexibility:

(see info about transparency torification for any traffic:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/BlockNonTorTrafficDebian)

and some sort of security (using system provided tor-daemon starting from restricted
users, SeLinux integration).

We know that developers works in the direction of better integrating Tor for Linux
not only for "point-and-click" users:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3994

Users comfortable with Linux-packaging system need a way to getting separate
TorBrowser as well, with
separated depended/recommended packages for neccecary plug-ins.