Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 β October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.
Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888. Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He led a boycott by the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. Purportedly to keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.
In prison, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898) and the Socialist Party of America (1901). Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell. He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916.
Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921. Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison.
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Linux nerds what is the best/"most secure" distro for a first timer? I have been advised not to use Ubuntu because Canonical is sketchy
i think big security heads just use extra programs and special settings, irrespective of distro
when i made the jump (recently) i realized most of the 'beginner advice' and recommendations are very decontextualized. oh you want 'beginner friendly?' you want 'customization'? these are nonsense terms linux users no longer understand.
just get one of them on a thumbdrive and play with it for a few hours. if you like it install it and try doing your normal tasks you use a computer for. the differences between distros aren't going to be meaningful until you know how one of them behaves (and if you don't like that)
Ah I see, thay makes sense. It kinda seems like (unless its Qubes or Tails maybe) that others that might be more privacy focused just have decent apps that come with it, is that accurate? At least with more popular distros that aren't super like hacker/programmer focused
what's neat is you can get the kinds of apps you need even if they don't ship with the distro, and get rid of the apps you don't want that shipped with it.
i'd look at forums on a given distro about the specific security concerns you have, and decide by which is the most active/helpful. you'll be relying on them a lot.
I would just go Debian, it's what Ubuntu and Mint are based on but it's not hard to set up.
I had a good experience with Linux Mint. It was easy to set up and any problems I had were easy to solve thanks to it being based off of Ubuntu and therefore having a large number of relevant resources and forum posts for troubleshooting.
Edit: Rereading your question and I just realized you asked for most secure, and I have no idea how Linux Mint compares to other distros in that regard. So uhh sorry for my unhelpful reply lol
Not unhelpful! Ive never used Linux before and I don't code or anything so idk if I'll be in over my head trying other distro. Good one to keep in mind
If you really want security, Qubes or Tails are your best options. If you just care about security in the normal sense, most distributions should be fine, Debian and Mint are both good choices for people new to Linux.
I saw those as the most suggested on pretty much every website I checked out, but idk if those might be a bit more advanced for what computer knowledge I have. I didn't quite understand how to use Qubes, and with Tails it sounds like it doesn't save any data at all after you shut it down right?
Yes, with those two you are sacrificing usability for security. If you are a "normal" person you probably should not bother with them, if you are doing
things it is probably a good idea.
Lol yeah, fair enough I have no business using those I just dont want windows fucking screenshotting my business every 3 seconds