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Article posted on Sep 18
Speaking of Mac clones...
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on September 18, 2008, 2:06 pm
Psystar, the company currently famous for butting heads with Apple, is shipping Finnix. No, really. Looks like they're shipping it as a restore utility CD (which is great, since that's what Finnix is designed to be).
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Article posted on Oct 23
Finnix 90.0 Released
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 23, 2007, 11:01 am
Hot off the build machines...
On October 23, 2005, Finnix 86.0 was released, marking the revival of Finnix. Now, two years and 9 releases later, Finnix 90.0 has been released for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms. Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing.
Finnix 90.0 includes a new Linux kernel (2.6.22), faster booting, and the ability to boot from SATA CD-ROM and DVD-ROM devices, as well as updated Debian system software and bug fixes.
New Linux kernel
For the last 3 versions, Finnix has remained at kernel 2.6.18. After much delay, Finnix 90.0 includes Linux 2.6.22. Finnix 90.0's kernel includes support for both UnionFS 2 and AUFS, with UnionFS as the default for stability reasons.
Faster booting
Finnix 90.0 will now boot even quicker, about 8 seconds quicker than Finnix 89.0!
SATA CD-ROM booting
Finnix 90.0 can now be booted using Serial ATA (SATA) CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives. This is in addition to the many other existing ways to boot Finnix: Parallel ATA CD/DVD drive, SCSI CD/DVD drive, USB thumb drive, hard drive, netboot, or virtualized (User Mode Linux, Xen).
- Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
- Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download
- Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_90.0_release_notes
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Article posted on Sep 4
fo0DOS
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on September 4, 2006, 10:37 pm
In addition to having my own Linux distro, I now have my own DOS distro.
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Article posted on Aug 2
Finnix 88.0 Released!
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on August 2, 2006, 2:14 pm
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 88.0 for the x86, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.
Finnix 88.0 features Linux 2.6.17, a faster, more complete hardware autodetection routine, DMA mode enabled by default, Broadcom 43xx support, a DOS boot profile, and NTFS write support. Linux 2.6.17's new bcm43xx drive has been tested successfully on both G4 PowerBooks and x86 laptops with Broadcom cards, even with optional wpa_supplicant. FreeDOS ODIN, a 1.44MB image containing many DOS utilities may be booted by typing "dos" at the boot menu. The NTFS FUSE package, while present in Finnix 87.0, has been heavily tested, and seems to work rather well. Instead of mounting the normal way, simply type "ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfsmount" to use the FUSE functionality.
- Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
- Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download
- Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_88.0_release_notes
P.S. Many thanks to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab for providing primary Finnix release mirroring, after still-unresolved problems with SourceForge's mirroring system. Thanks OSL!
P.P.S. This announcement is being made a day early, as I'm confident I'll have internet access tomorrow evening, and I'd rather release a day early than a day late.
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Article posted on Apr 1
April Fools!
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 1, 2006, 3:38 pm
Yes, the iPod port was a joke. See the iPod page for more information about the hoax.
BTW, the Finnix x86/PPC 87.0 release itself wasn't a hoax. You have downloaded your copy already, haven't you?
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Article posted on Mar 31
Finnix 87.0 Released
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 31, 2006, 10:24 am
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 87.0 for the x86, PowerPC, UML/Xen, and iPod platforms.
Finnix 87.0 contains new features, including Linux kernel 2.6.16, full automatic LVM detection, console mouse support, SMP support for the PowerPC release, dynamic filesystem overlays, improved IDE DMA support, and a utility to assist with creating a bootable USB thumb drive with Finnix. Finnix can now also be installed on the popular iPod hardware, for a total of 5 platforms Finnix can be run on, though this new platform is still considered experimental.
Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
SourceForge page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/finnix/
Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download
Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_87.0_Release_Notes
Finnix for iPod: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_for_iPod
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Article posted on Mar 9
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 9, 2006, 2:50 pm
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/root 54G 995M 50G 2% / tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 130M 15M 108M 13% /boot tmpfs 237M 92K 237M 1% /dev
I mentioned yesterday that one day I would get dm-crypt working on etch for a root filesystem. Well, today I'm off of work and rather sick, so I did it. Short story: it's rather easy, with the new mkinitramfs system. Here's how I did it:
1. Install etch as normal. The only requirement is you MUST have a separate /boot partition, which will later remain unencrypted.
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Article posted on Jan 29
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 29, 2006, 7:07 pm
I've created a page that details the various hacks and extensions used to get MediaWiki working well for the Finnix website, including an RSS display extension, an extension for displaying aribtrary HTML that other users can't edit, a way to make non-ugly wiki URLs, and how to display a Google AdSense block at the top-right corner of the page.
Also, why haven't you subscribed to finnix yet? It really hurts my feelings.
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Article posted on Jan 8
Finnix 86.2 Released
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 8, 2006, 2:38 am
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 86.2 for the x86, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.
Finnix 86.2 contains several new features, including Linux kernel 2.6.15, improved hardware detection (using data from Fedora Core 4), improved reliability when booting from USB CDROM and thumb devices, and an expanded general-purpose task utility, aptly named "finnix". In addition, Finnix may now be installed and run directly from a hard drive. The ISO size has also been reduced, from 100MiB to 92MiB on the x86 platform, without any loss of functionality.
Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
SourceForge page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/finnix/
Download:
* x86: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/finnix/finnix-86.2.iso?download
* PowerPC: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/finnix/finnix-ppc-86.2.iso?download
Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_86.2_Release_Notes
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Article posted on Jan 6
BLAWGS! WE HAVE BLAWGS!
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 6, 2006, 7:38 pm
I have created a blawg for stuff related to Finnix development. The LJ RSS feed is finnix, but LJ hasn't updated it yet. In the mean time, read the first entry created so far. I will probably continue to post info about releases on my personal LJ account, but the boring details will be on the blawg instead.
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