Docs
Wren Linux's documents, as pages, from the same commit as the rest of this site. Each one is also there as plain text, from its page.
Wren Linux
Guides
- A short history of Debian
- A short history of Tor
- A VPN before Tor: keeping your records away from your ISP
- From scripts to a distribution: the plan
- Good passwords, and how to keep them
- GPG, in plain words
- How Wren Linux fits together
- Keeping it working
- Keys and encryption: do I still need full disk encryption?
- Operations security (opsec): a practical guide
- Setting up the BIOS (UEFI firmware)
- The extras
- The website on a VPS
- What install-base.sh does
- What is an onion site?
- What is Debian?
- What is free and open source software?
- What is Monero?
- What Wren Linux adds to Debian
- wifi.sh
- Your first time with Wren Linux
The extras
- The extras, explained
- A second Tor Browser, at Safer (extras/tor-browser-unsafe.sh)
- An encrypted vault that locks itself (extras/vault.sh)
- Archive tools (extras/archive-tools.sh)
- Autologin on tty1 (extras/autologin.sh)
- Bluetooth (extras/bluetooth.sh)
- Claude Code in a VM (extras/claude-vm.sh)
- Color emoji (extras/emoji-font.sh)
- Compressed memory (extras/zram.sh)
- Console-only: tmux instead of sway (extras/console-only.sh)
- Debian's packages through Tor (extras/apt-tor.sh)
- Electrum (extras/electrum.sh)
- Encrypted backups (extras/backup.sh)
- Feather Wallet (extras/feather-wallet.sh)
- Firefox as its own user (extras/firefox-sandbox.sh)
- Firefox's hardening, and incognito (part of extras/firefox-sandbox.sh)
- GIMP, in a sandbox (extras/gimp.sh)
- git (extras/git.sh)
- Hardware security keys (extras/security-key.sh)
- imv and mpv, in a sandbox (extras/media.sh)
- KeePassXC (extras/keepassxc.sh)
- Metadata Cleaner (extras/metadata-cleaner.sh)
- mockvps-kvm, a throwaway VPS (extras/mockvps-kvm.sh)
- Mousepad text editor (extras/mousepad.sh)
- Mullvad Browser as its own user (extras/mullvad-browser-sandbox.sh)
- Mullvad Browser, as you (extras/mullvad-browser-regular.sh)
- Mullvad VPN (extras/mullvad-vpn.sh)
- One Firefox profile per site (extras/firefox-profiles/new-profile.sh)
- One workspace (extras/one-workspace.sh)
- OnionShare (extras/onionshare.sh)
- Other systems' install images (extras/get-iso.sh)
- Phone tethering over USB (extras/phone-tethering.sh)
- Remote access over Tor (extras/remote-access.sh)
- Screens that switch by themselves (extras/kanshi.sh)
- Screenshots (extras/grim-slurp.sh)
- Seahorse and the keyring (extras/seahorse.sh)
- Signal Desktop (extras/signal.sh)
- Sound (extras/pipewire-audio.sh)
- Tails on a USB stick (extras/tails-usb.sh)
- The lid locks, but doesn't suspend (extras/lid-awake.sh)
- The startup watch (parts/startup-watch.sh)
- The webcam switch (extras/webcam.sh)
- Thunar file manager (extras/file-manager.sh)
- Tools for working on Wren Linux (extras/wren-dev.sh)
- Tor Browser (extras/tor-browser.sh)
- vim, with colors (extras/vim.sh)
- w3m (extras/w3m.sh)
- Wallpapers to pick from (extras/wallpapers.sh)
- Whonix (extras/whonix.sh)
- Wren Linux's signing key, kept by a user of its own (extras/signing-key.sh)
- Your own onion site (extras/onion-site.sh)
- yt-dlp, as its own user (extras/yt-dlp.sh)
- zathura PDF viewer, in a sandbox (extras/pdf-viewer.sh)