n8chz

I propose the creation of yet another GNU/Linux distro, to be called SneakernetGnuLinux (SGL).

The goal of this project is to distribute the Linux operating system in a form that maximizes the level of usability that is possible on the less privileged side of the digital divide.

The system, as ititially configured at install time, should be tuned with some (user-selectable) combination of the following assumptions:

• That the target user does not have Internet access at all
• That the target computer is "air gapped"
• That availability of Internet connections will be intermittent or otherwise unreliable
• That connections, once made, are likely to be lost after a short time

n8chz

I propose the creation of yet another GNU/Linux distro, to be called SneakernetGnuLinux (SGL).

The goal of this project is to distribute the Linux operating system in a form that maximizes the level of usability that is possible on the less privileged side of the digital divide.

The system, as initially configured at install time, should be tuned with some (user-selectable) combination of the following assumptions:

n8chz

I propose the creation of yet another GNU/Linux distro, to be called ***SneakernetGnuLinux*** (SGL).

The goal of this project is to distribute the Linux operating system in a form that maximizes the level of usability that is possible on the less privileged side of the digital divide.

The system, as ititially configured at install time, should be tuned with some (user-selectable) combination of the following assumptions:

* That the target user does not have Internet access at all
* That the target computer is "air gapped"
* That availability of Internet connections will be intermittent or otherwise unreliable
* That connections, once made, are likely to be lost after a short time

n8chz

TLDR;

Libertarianism when applied to the social and political structure of technology and open source (Meritocracy) perpetuates inequality by failing to acknowledge the role of power and current state of inequality.

Long Version

American libertarianism is uniquely American, unfortunately Silicon Valley happens to be in America. It is a political and social philosophy that believes individual ownership and power should supplant collective ownership of any kind. Most immediately the ownership and interventionist powers of government should be dismantled and the free market should be left with the responsibility of creating equality and individuals expected to protect their own interests.

Filtered through the lens of technology this becomes a more unified theory of Meritocracy. For our purposes here, it is no coincidence that meritocracy ends with -ocracy, like many other hierarchy-oriented words such as autocracy, aristocracy, kleptocracy, mobocracy and plutocracy.