Hello anons! I'd like to create a live-only USB distro for the I2P network . It will be based on LMDE with the Cinnamon desktop environment and will be called LMDEI (Linux Mint Debian Edition I2p).

Currently in alpha development phase.

Included apps:

vim
nano
vlc
mpv
keepassxc
librewolf
bittorrent
kelopatra
metadata cleaner
wireshark
tor browser
openjdk24
i2p.jar file
and whatever I can't delete from LMDE

I'd like to uninstall some apps, configure a custom wallpaper, configure the firewall etc, but I don't know how to extract the OS into an .iso or .img file, so any help would be welcome (please comment below).

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z3d wrote on September 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM

#6,375

Some documentation:

pory wrote on September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM

#6,376

Cool project, but a live OS seems a little antithetical for I2P which is supposed to run like a router (24/7)

jackal wrote on September 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM

#6,378

Replying to (#6,376)

It can run 24/7 on a ramdisk. Plus it could be convenient if you have nothing else and you want to get in touch with someone over I2P, much like Tails does with Tor for a similar purpose.

A good bonus might be to include a couple of shell scripts to automate deploying a few things as well, and even keep those maintained as stand-alone, I surely wouldn't mind using those on virtual servers and contributing to such thing to automate deploying something like an FTP server or an email server for easy and convenient data exchange and communication.

johnbaconator wrote on September 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM

#6,381

What's stopping you from using Tails as a basis? Making your own from scratch sounds difficult for just a simple addition

Alfgz wrote on September 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM

#6,390

Interesting

fgFUKTG445F OP wrote on September 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM

#6,398

Hi. I'm back. sorry for being late. I have some stuff todo . and after some researching my stuff about my live os . it's mid and a$$ and I saw A lot of other live os like prestium and Obscurix (an arch based distro) and other distros and I decided to maybe to cancel my idea.

fgFUKTG445F OP wrote on September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM

#6,399

Replying to (#6,381)

some people don't have a strong PC to use a virtual machine effectively and some people don't want to use there own computer to browse I2p and I used tails with I2p but it's not that effective to use and you need to connect to TOR which is not the best network for speed and you know the news about TOR and the USA and Europe and stuff like that.