OK so now that we have cubes installed and we booted into it and we logged in and this lecture I want
to give you a very basic overview of the operating system and then we'll get to use it more and more
as we go through the course.
So as soon as you log in you will probably see this window right here which is a configuration window
for the next Gateway.
This is the gateway that will direct all the data that we send to the Internet and force it to go through
the Tor network.
Now before configuring this I want to give you an overview of the operating system.
Like I said so I'm going to keep this to the side because I want to connect to the Internet first before
we configured this the first impression.
You'll probably notice that this looks very similar to a lot of Linux operating systems.
You have a status bar in here that shows the running applications and on the left here you have a menu
which allows you to run various applications in this operating system.
You'll notice we can run a terminal in here which is very similar to Linux terminals like I said and
runs a lot of Linux commands plus some cube specific commands.
Other than this you will also notice that we have system tools menu which allows you to access different
applications related to the operating system.
The one that you'll be using the most is the settings manager.
Again this is very similar to the settings application you get on a lot of Linux this throws and that
allows you to change the various settings of the operating system.
You can change the appearance the desktop the background the windows the mouse and keyboard the languages
and so on.
I've actually used this to modify the font size and the icons and even the theme here on top.
So you'll notice the theme that I have right now is slightly different than what you see on your desktop.
If you just install cubes.
The reason why I did this is just to make it a little bit more readable and easy for you to see what
I'm doing.
If you're watching this from a small screen or from a phone.
So very simple settings you can click on whatever center you want to modify and then you can modify
the different settings just like any other operating system.
So it's very very intuitive.
And there is no point of wasting time on this again in the system tools other than the settings manager
you will find various settings and various applications that you can use to configure your system.
So you have the package manager where you can install different programs in different packages.
You have the data where you can check for updates and update the system.
You will have your cubes manager and we'll talk about that in details later on.
You'll have the global settings for the operating system.
Again we'll talk about that later on.
You have your backups you have your updates again screen saver and so on so you can spend some time
with this trying to familiarize yourself with it or just keep this in mind that you have the system
tools in here in case you wanted to modify any settings related to your system.
Other than this everything else you see in this menu will allow you to launch applications and all of
these applications are categorized or grouped based on different security domains and different virtual
machines.
And we'll talk about that in more details later on Now moving on to the right on the status bar you
will see that we have four different boxes each box of these is a desktop.
So again this is similar to a lot of Linux this rose and even OS X so you can have multiple workspaces
where you can launch different applications and manage your windows and you can easily navigate through
them using this status bar in here by simply clicking on the workspace you want to go to or using the
control of right or left.
So control of an arrow to navigate between them.
So for example we already have this window open in here.
And if I go to the second workspace in here I can open my terminal and I can easily navigate between
them in here by simply clicking at the workspace or by doing control all left to go back to the first
workspace or control.
All right to go back to where I have the terminal open at my second workspace.
Moving on to the right.
Again we have our time and data calendar we have the audio settings we say that we have the network
settings.
So if we click on this you can see first of all we have the Internet network which you're seeing disconnected.
This is because I don't have our wire connected to the computer.
If you want to connect to an Internet network just plug the other net cable into your computer and you
should be able to see the network in here and all you have to do is literally click on the network and
connect to connect to it.
Alternatively if you add a connect over Wi-Fi again for me you can see it seemed disconnected but it's
less than all the Wi-Fi networks around me.
Now if you have a wireless card in your computer but you're not seeing any networks that means that
you need to install the drivers for your card.
And this really depends on the chipset used in the card.
So you'll have to go and Google and research the chips it used and see if it's compatible with cubes
if it is.
You'll have to see how to install the drivers.
In my case I was lucky cubes is able to detect my Wi-Fi card automatically without having to install
anything.
So all I have to do is literally click on the network that I want to connect to put the Wi-Fi password
and perfect as you can see the icon here changed to an icon that is showing me the signal strength.
And it's also saying in the name of the network that I connected to and if I click on it we can see
that we are connected to this network and we can click here to disconnect.
So right now I should have internet connection on this computer but I'm not going to open any websites.
We'll talk about that later on.
So we're just going to move on just talking about the basics of cubes and the next icons that we have
in here is the clipboard icon.
And this is basically where you'll see whatever you have copied because copy and pasting in this operating
system is slightly different than what you're used to in other operating systems.
Again to improve the security of the system.
Next we have the device manager.
So in here you have all of the devices connected to this computer right now and using this menu you
can select where do you want to connect each of these devices.
So as we mentioned cubes is designed to improve the security by separating and isolating the different
components of the system.
Therefore when you connect a USB device or any type of a device you'll have to explicitly say which
domain you want to connect this device to.
Now I know this sounds a little bit vague right now but we'll use it in the future and you'll see how
you can connect different devices to specific security domains and you'll understand how this actually
improves our security next we have the storage manager and you can see the storage devices connected
to this computer.
Right now we can also see this Cusick of our system.
Next we have the cubes manager which is something that we will spend a lot of time talking about again
later on.
Basically what it does is it shows you the amount of resources each cube or each virtual machine is
using at the moment and by hovering over any of these virtual machines will be able to enter its settings.
We'll be able to posit shut it down or run a terminal inside the virtual machine.
If you just go down to the last option in here open Cuba's manager you'll get the cube Virtual Machine
Manager which allows us to modify various settings of all the installed virtual machines and see their
status update them and all that.
And like I said we will spend a full lecture talking about this.
So don't worry about it for now.
Just wanted to show you where it is and how to enter the cube.
Manager finally we have the update icon in here you'll only see this if there are updates available.
Again you can click on it and launch the updates to update your installation.
We have the power settings beside that.
And finally we have our user which is in my case John clicking on this will allow you to lock the screen
and suspend shut down or log out.
So as you can see very simple and intuitive interface you're probably able to figure out most of the
things that I was speaking about earlier by yourself.
But I just wanted to make sure that I cover everything in here before we dive deeper into this operating
system.
And I also wanted to cover how all of these are virtual machines in here so that you get an idea of
what's coming in the next lectures.
Now I'm going to go back to the window that I said you'll see as soon as you log into the computer.
So like I said this Windows is related to the Unix Gateway.
This is the gateway that will force all traffic to go through the Tor network.
So this is something that we actually do want to configure and you can see the options in here are very
similar to the options that we see when we first launched the browser.
So we can leave it at Kinect to just Kinect simply to the TOR network we can click configure if you
want to use a bridge or a plug about transport.
Now if you don't remember what reduce unplug all transports are please go back and revise the lectures
while I cover them because I cover them in details uncovered multiple ways on how to get bridges and
unplug all transports and why you might want to use them.
Therefore I'm just going to keep this at connect at the basic setting and I'm going to click on Next.
And this has just shown us a summary that we're going to be connecting to the terror network.
The bridges are disabled and we're not using any proxies.
So that's fine.
We're going to click on Next and perfect as you can see right now it's telling us that we are connected
to the terror network.
Now keep in mind please don't go and start browsing straight away.
Not all web browsers in this operating system will forward traffic through the Tor network.
So don't just go and access dark web web sites right now wait for the next lectures and I will explain
to you the different web browsers and the different gateways inside this cool operating system.