In spite of the Web Hype I have nothing good to talk about Catbird Linux
Do not use it and run into problems. It not the problem of Debian but the guys who are trying to fiddle with the kernel.
Reasons
1. It is Sid version which unstable and never released by Debian developers.
2. It cannot configure my RAM which was *GB but it assumed it was 4GB.
3. It could not configure my NUC WiFi.
4. It live USB does not boot fully.
5. No user login or password checking.
6. Probably no root account.
7. Command line did not work.
8. My NUC has no Audio output but it configured the non existing Audio to 100%.
9. Torrent does not have any seeders.
I am not sure from and how I god its torrent file into my system. May be from listen to an amateur Linux Guru in the YouTube.
10. I am totally disappointed and I will delete the iso image and go and download AV Linux MX version.
Catbird Linux
Catbird Linux is an operating system built for media creation, web scraping, and software coding. It is the daily driver you want for retrieving data, making videos or podcasts, and making software tools to automate the repetitive tasks. It is ready for work in Python, Lua, and Go languages, with numerous packages for web scraping or downloading data via API calls. Using Catbird Linux, it is possible to accomplish in depth stock market analysis, track weather trends, follow social media sentiment, or do other tasks in data science. The system is programmer friendly, ready for creating and running the tools you use to measure and understand your world.
Welcome to Catbird Linux, an operating system built for media creation, web scraping, and software coding. It is the daily driver you want for retrieving data, making videos or podcasts, and making software tools to automate the repetitive tasks. It is ready for work in Python, Lua, and Go languages, with numerous packages for web scraping or downloading data via API calls. Using Catbird Linux, it is possible to accomplish in depth stock market analysis, track weather trends, follow social media sentiment, or do other tasks in data science. The system is programmer friendly, ready for creating and running the tools you use to measure and understand your world.
Catbird Linux v2 live username: user password: live
Introduction
Welcome to Catbird Linux, an operating system built for media creation,
web scraping, and software coding. It is the daily driver you want for retrieving
data, making videos or podcasts, and making software tools to automate the repetitive
tasks. It is ready for work in Python, Lua, and Go languages, with numerous packages
for web scraping or downloading data via API calls. Using Catbird Linux, it is
possible to accomplish in depth stock market analysis, track weather trends, follow
social media sentiment, or do other tasks in data science. The system is programmer
friendly, ready for creating and running the tools you use to measure and understand
your world.
Catbird Linux v2 live username: user password: live
catbirdlinux-2.8.0.iso (Release Date 2024/12/17)
Content Creation Tools
Start creating content by developing your ideas and writing them down.
Obsidian
is a premier application for note-taking in markdown format. Neovim
also works great with markdown. Write books and export them to multiple formats using
LibreOffice. Creating ebooks for the Kindle or other readers can
be tricky; use
Sigil
to open up ebooks and edit them as HTML projects.
Aside from writing text, creating content involves working with audio, video, and
images. Catbird Linux is ready to work for you with these applications:
- Audacity, for
audio editing. Plenty of processing and analysis plugins are installed.
- GIMP, for image
editing in a gui.
- Imagemagick, for image
editing on the command line.
- Inkscape, for vector graphic image
editing.
- OBS-Studio, for video streaming and
screen recording.
- Shotcut, for video editing. Processing
plugins included.
Data Science
Here are some of the main Python packages integrated into the system:
- Python 3.12, pure and simple. It is the base upon
which capabilities are extended with extra custom modules.
- Requests, a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
- Ipython, a command shell for interactive computing in
Python.
- JupyterLab, an application for creating, testing, and
sharing documents containing live code. Jupyter Notebooks are configured for Python, Go, Lua, Javascript, Typescript,
and Bash kernels.
- Pandas-Datareader, a library
for managing and formatting for display or input to other applications.
- Matplotlib, a 2D mathematical plotting library.
- Scipy, a core Python library for computations in
science and engineering.
- Sympy, the Python library for symbolic mathematics.
- Numpy, a core Python library for advanced mathematical
computations.
- Astropy, containing essential computational tools
for astronomy and astrophysics.
- MetPy, a Python library
for reading, visualizing, and performing calculations with weather data.
- WorldWeather is
the largest three-dimensional web-based interactive browser of satellite, weather, climate, and other
publicly available time-aware geospatial data, built upon NASA's revolutionary World Wind technology.
For web scraping, these specialized packages are installed:
- Beautiful Soup, a library for
exreacting data from HTML and XML documents.
- Selenium, a suite of tools automating web
browsing.
- Scrapy, a powerful and extensible web scraping and crawling
framework. It is not especially user friendly, but once set up, it really brings in the data you need.
Sentiment of scraped social media or news content can be measured with natural
language processing (nlp) software tools. Whether favorable, neutral, unfavorable,
or perhaps outright love and hate, populations can be evaluated by by what they say. Bots
and trolls can be found and evaluated too! The
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
is the main language processing tool in Catbird Linux. It has numerous components which
parse, tokenize, classify, and evaluate the semantics of written language. Catbird Linux
is configured for English, but it is possible to install modules for other languages.
VADER Sentiment Analysis
is a valence-aware dictionary and rules-based analysis tool crafted for social media analysis.
WordNet
is effective on groups of words, adept at assigning values based on phrases built on synonyms,
antonyms, or neutral with respect to other words.
TextBlob is a
package which your scripts will use to examine blocks of text - breaking phrases into
parts, then tagging, evaluating, and quantifying sentiment. It is powerful, but easy
to use: collect your text, with programmatic instructions, feed it to the processor for
evaluation.
Catbird Linux includes a wide variety of python packages ready to work on start-up.
If you have your own scripts or Jypyter Notebooks, copy them into the system and run
them. Additional packages may be easily added with the pip install
or other commands. It is suggested to set up separate
Python
virtual environments built around specific packages and tasks.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
Artificial Intelligence has quickly proven itself to be an essential element of
data collection, interpretation, and content creation. It seems that each week,
creative people are finding new ways to use ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney, and other
intelligent tools to reimagine their workflows and be super productive. Catbird
Linux is now incorporating some of those tools. Several are bookmarked in the web
browser for quick access, while others are included as stand alone apps or browser
plugins.
Use Terminal GPT (tgpt)
to engage the Bai Chatbot, which may be used anonymously and for free - with no
API keys. Look for the Google Bard web browser plugin or HuggingChat
sidebar accessory to enhance your experience in Firefox.
Go and Lua: Elegant - Efficient - Fast
Go and Lua are open source programming languages focused on simplicity,
reliability, and efficiency. Writing either Go or Lua to create your applications,
you work in a more direct manner, without the bloat and clutter of other programming
languages. Golang code is compiled into lightweight, efficient binaries, while
Lua is interpreted and executed quickly and reliably.
Gather an analyze data with Python, but use Go to do the heavy work with your
refined data. It is 40x faster than Python, similar to Java or C++ but more
probrammer-friendly.
Javascript and Typescript: Dynamic Web Content
Neovim and JupyterLab are both configured with syntax and formatting support for
Javascript and Typescript. In fact, you can test your code incrementally in
JupyterLab. Of course, Firefox is a web browser which will run Javascript or
Typescript right out of the box.
Office, Programming, and Multimedia Applications
In addition to data science applications, Catbird Linux is equipped with the full
LibreOffice productivity suite.
For code writers, there is the Neovim
editor, with included plugins supporting Python, Go, Lua, Java / Javascript, HTML, Markdown,
and other languages. Multimedia files and data streams are available in the
MPV Media Player. Internet accessible
software defined radio servers are indexed in, SDR-Map and
SDR-Bookmarks for accessing live, off-the-air broadcasts from
around the world.
Command Line Tools
Catbird Linux contains a plethora of efficient and fast command line tools.
- Terminal GPT (tgpt) provides
acces to the Bai Chatbot. Open it and send some prompts to accomplish interesting things.
- Neovim and
Nano
are a pleasure to program in, in part, because they are so fast.
- Newsboat is an RSS / Atom feed reader.
- Castero is a lightweight podcast player.
- Browsing the web is a breeze in text mode with
W3M.Navigate pages with Vim-like keys and
enjoy cleaner, stripped text using the
Readability utility.
- Surfraw is a search tool
providing well over a hundred different websites to access for information not
easy to find on the major portals. You can look for aircraft in flight by
registration or ADSB hex code, find answers to computing or math problems, or
even do lookups of slang phrases or rumors appearing in the news.
- TwitGrid pulls
multiple topically related X / Twitter feeds and displays them as a broadsheet
in Firefox. Temporarily running as a multi-tabber as the X page formats keep
changing, breaking the broadsheet.
- Irssi is a terminal based
internet relay chat (irc) application for anyone wanting to go "old school"
in text based communication.
- lf is a fast and efficient
terminal file manager. Navigate with Vim-like keys, with previews and user
configurable management commands.
- fzf,
ripgrep,
and fd are tiny
yet very effective tools for searching and organizing files or text.
With these, you can reach into dozens or hundreds of files to recursively find
words, phrases, code, or even terminal command history.
- uv is a new
and extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. It
is the tool to use for installing or removing packages and keeping
the dependencies in order. Uv makes it easy to set up and run virtual Python
environments.
Network Accessibility and Security
Catbird Linux contains applications promoting a decentralised, content neutral,
and censorship free internet. For evading national censorship barriers,
Wireguard VPN,
OpenVPN,
and Sshuttle
are effective tools. Tor-Remote is for discretely acessing the
Tor network by ssh tunneling first to an intermediate server, which is connected
to a Tor entry node.
DNS privacy and authenticity,
are protected with DNS over HTTPS, ensuring that censors cannot
monitor or poison domain name lookups.
Local files need protection too!
VeraCrypt
provides strong cryptographic protection in the form of storage volumes which
resist tampering or unauthorised access.
Bleachbit is a powerful
system cleaner which can also eliminate traces of deleted files by wiping free
disk space.
Usage and Installation Options
Catbird Linux is built primarily to run as a live environment you boot from a
flash drive. However, it is now easily installable with the Calamares application!
Write this great Linux system to your desktop or laptop hardware and go forth to
do great things. It is lightning fast on bare metal.
To create a bootable flashdrive, consider using Etcher
or Rufus.
Ventoy
may be used to set up a portable multiboot drive you can use for USB booting
as many live Linux environments as you can fit on the device.
The live iso is packaged as a DVD image, but it is not recommended to burn an
actual DVD to run any live computing environment. DVDs are far, far too slow!
Use a flash drive or SSD for a portable set up; install to bare metal for top
performance.
Technical Notes
Catbird Linux is a 64 bit system. As of Version 2.0, it is based on
Debian's Sid branch of GNU/Linux.
Catbird Linux uses the Dynamic window Manager (DWM), with a great set of patches,
to provide an efficient workflow light on resources and fast. The system builds
on and extends the capabilities of its parent distros: easy software updating, great
graphics, system resource management, and adaptability to user needs. The system
runs quite well on modest hardware, and is blazingly fast on strong multi-Core CPUs
with abundant memory.
This live Linux system may be customized and the iso file regenerated with the
included Bash scripts. Copy the directory /usr/local/src/linux-respinner
to a location with free space at least four times the size of the iso file.
Edit the variables at the beginning of the "group update" and "multifunction"
scripts so they contain the actual paths to be used. See the respinner README for
more information.
Integrity and Authenticity of Catbird Linux
Great effort goes into making Catbird Linux safe and free of malware. To
verify that your copy of the iso image file is authentic, undamaged, and unaltered,
check the sha256sum against the official authentication document and verify
the digital signature of Catbird Linux. The
authentication
document is available by the download link at Catbirdlinux.com. Use the
Passwords and Keys
or Seahorse application to check the signature. Import the Catbird Linux public key from
pool.sks-keyservers.net
or
keyserver.ubuntu.com.
Disclaimer
Catbird Linux is provided as-is. No guarantees or warranties are applicable to Catbird
Linux. Catbird Linux is an independent distribution derived from Debian GNU/Linux, but not
endorsed by or affiliated with Debian or any other organizations. End users bear all
responsibility for access and use of data obtained with Catbird Linux and any works created
with it.
