On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > hfsprogs, hfsplus and hfsutils - I'd like hfsprogs at the bare minimum > so I'd have mkfs.hfs which I need to do some testing for fsarchiver...
hfsutils is already included. hfsprogs and hfsplus will be included with Finnix 104, thanks. I seem to remember something about hfsprogs conflicting with hfsutils back in the day, but it doesn't appear to now, so it's fine to include. > fsarchiver - This is a central admin tool for me and one of the main > reasons I make so much heavy use of systemrescuecd simply because it > has this on it. I am volunteering to do some testing (using the next > finnix hopefully) for this project so that it can have hfs+ support > added to it but first I need a PPC live CD with both rsync and > mkfs.hfs on it. Looks good, including. > testdisk - This is the other golden admin tool (apart from ssh and > fsarchiver of course!) missing from finnix. I use this mainly to > undelete files which its very good at. Somewhat large, I'll consider it depending on what the size of 104 looks like. > p7zip-full It's hard to justify this, since it's a rather large program whose main focus is including as many compression options as possible, most of which are already in Finnix. (The 7zip format itself is already installed in Finnix via the regular "p7zip" package.) > rar and unrar Non-free binary-only shareware, and, depending on how the license is interpreted, undistributable via LiveCD format anyway. Not gonna happen. > clamav You would need to download clamav definitions anyway (distributing definitions that are outdated soon after the ISO is released would be irresponsible), so installing the clamav package itself at runtime doesn't really add anything except a few extra seconds of download time. > I'd also really like to see X included on the disc alongside Iceweasel > (mainly for configuring routers but also to browse the web for help > and view docs) and to make it really worth your while of including X > you should also include a good pdf reader and good RDP and VNC > clients. That is simply not a focus of Finnix, sorry. Including X11 and its related programs would add a lot of data and a whole new level of complexity. I admit there have been times when I need a GUI myself, but IMHO the benefits of Finnix's focus outweigh what's missing. As others had mentioned in the other thread, Finnix is easily remastered, and it's easy to add software yourself and produce one-offs. Of course, I still welcome suggestions, but it's hard to include what everyone wants while still maintaining a balance of size, speed and functionality. RF _______________________________________________ finnix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.colobox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/finnix
