Ryan, Thank you for your time and effort. I'm a silent finnix user (since 2006). Finnix is my preferred distro for cd/tftp boot to modify/repair/move/upgrade systems with. It is light weight (download wise), but has all the tools needed to do these kind of tasks.
Thank you for making and maintaining Finnix! J.C. Woltz Sent from mobile device. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Finnie <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:30 To: General Finnix discussion and announcements<[email protected]> Reply-To: General Finnix discussion and announcements <[email protected]> Subject: [finnix] Finnix 103 released 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
