Tails 3.0: A few days after his announcement Tails 2.7, the Debian-based live system development team GNU / Linux revealed some technical details about the next major release.
Yes, we're talking about the upcoming Tails 3.0, which is in development and looks set to be a big information of the anonymous operating system that Edward was using Snowden to protect his online identity. As mentioned above Tails is a Debian-based distribution that uses the popular Tor anonymous network and the Tor Browser.
The latest version of Tails is based on functional Debian GNU/Linux 8 Jessie system, while the upcoming Tails 3.0 will be based on Debian GNU/Linux 9 Stretch, which is expected to be released sometime in spring 2017. Also, Tails 3.0 appears to be the first version to work only on 64-bit architecture computers.
"Tails 3.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch). Therefore, it will essentially upgrade all the software it includes, ”revealed the developers of Tails in the announcement of the first release.
“Also, it will require one computer 64-bit, and GNOME Shell is set to use the black theme by default.”
The new Tails 3.0 is powered by the 4.8 Linux kernel and uses the GNOME 3.22.2 graphical interface by default. We do not yet know whether the development team will keep this version until the final version or upgrade the distribution components to the latest ones, such as GNOME 3.24 and Linux kernel 4.9.
If you want to try the early Wales 3.0, in the Alpha version you can download the ISO from the link below. However, you will not be able to install it by updating some Tails that are in the 2.x version. Also, you need to know that this is a prelude and it is natural to contain unresolved issues.
