Nice to see a new release although I was greatly disappointed that NONE of my package suggestions made it into this release! I can understand Ryan objecting to including X, Iceweasel and the other X-based apps I suggested but I firmly believe finnix is losing out a lot of potential users and is crippling itself by not including the packages I suggested which surely are the best available for Debian/Linux.
:( On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Ryan Finnie <[email protected]> wrote: > Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for > system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the > release of Finnix 103, the nineteenth release of Finnix, and marks > three months since the release of Finnix 102, and six years since the > relaunch of Finnix 86.0 in 2005. Finnix 103 includes a new forensic > mode, RNG entropy gathering, a minor kernel update, a large number of > bug fixes, new packages and new minor features. > > * Home page: http://www.finnix.org/ > * Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download > * Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_103_release_notes > * Free stickers! http://www.finnix.org/Free_stickers > > Forensic mode > > Finnix 103 includes a new forensic mode. When booted with the > "forensic" or "forensics" boot flags, Finnix changes its behavior to > minimize the chance of loading suspect code or writing to suspect > media. These changes include cryptographic hash verification of > discovered Finnix CD media, locking block devices, and avoiding swap, > LVM, RAID, crypt and network autodetection. For more information, see > http://www.finnix.org/Forensics . > > Entropy generation added > > Modern Linux distributions add to their random number generator (RNG) > entropy pool by saving some random data before shutdown, and adding it > back into the pool during startup. A LiveCD cannot normally do this, > so Finnix includes a new feature to generate random data to be fed > into the pool via a method that relies on the separation of a > computer's CPU and RTC. By default 8 bytes are generated during each > Finnix startup (due to the time it takes to generate data via this > method), but a new utility wrapper, "finnix-generate-entropy" is > included to generate a full pool's worth of entropy (currently 4096 > bytes). For more information, see > http://www.finnie.org/2011/09/25/introducing-twuewand/ . > _______________________________________________ > finnix mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.colobox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/finnix > _______________________________________________ finnix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.colobox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/finnix
