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Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for
system administrators, based on Debian testing. I am pleased to
announce the release of Finnix 105, a major architectural update to
the Finnix series. Finnix 105 brings major organizational changes to
the build and boot systems, along with the usual assortment of
software updates.
Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download
Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_105_release_notes
Free stickers! http://www.finnix.org/Free_stickers
Announcing Project NEALE
Until Finnix 105, each Finnix release had been produced by hand,
essentially a remaster of the previous release. This allowed for rapid
development and testing, but also allowed for individual mistakes,
filesystem bloat, and trouble tracking upstream Debian packages.
Finnix 105 is the first Finnix release to be produced under Project
NEALE (Normalized Extraction and Assembly of LiveCD Environments), a
new set of procedures to build Finnix CDs from a minimal base Debian
bootstrap. All base Finnix configuration is done via deb packages,
including two new packages, finnix-base and finnix-standard, which
depend on all the other software packages which normally go into a
Finnix release. This allows for a consistent build process each time,
and between architectures. It also allows for more future options,
such as a native userland AMD64 release.
Due to the new portable nature of NEALE builds, incrementing build
numbers have been retired (over 3000 builds have been produced in the
last 7 years!). There are still a few rough edges regarding this
transition, which will be ironed out over the next release cycle. The
base build system is not yet ready for public consumption, but will be
released to the public when it is. Remastering via the
finnix-build-stage{1,2} scripts will continue to be supported (indeed,
once the base bootstrap is completed, the build stage scripts are
still called to prepare and master the ISOs).
sysvinit replaced with runit
sysvinit, the classic userland init system -- the first process run as
part of the main userland, responsible for running startup scripts and
entering shutdown on command -- has been replaced with runit, a
minimal init system. Due to the nature of Finnix's boot process, a
statically-compiled init is needed. A manually-compiled sysvinit
binary was previously provided for this purpose, and would often fall
out of sync with the userland tools. However, runit's init binary is
statically-compiled by design, requiring no alterations, and is much
smaller, requiring less memory. runit's core operation is radically
different than sysvinit, but its integration into Finnix has been
designed to be as similar to previous sysvinit-run releases as
possible, and should be transparent to the user.
New archive management system, new GPG keys
Previous Finnix deb packages were managed in a manual repository, and
the repository and releases were signed by Ryan Finnie's personal GPG
key. Project NEALE required a more organized repository setup,
prompting the creation of archive.finnix.org, managed by reprepro. In
addition, Finnix-specific GPG keys have been created for use within
Finnix. Release ISOs are now signed by Finnix Release Signing Key
(4356E6C2), and repositories under archive.finnix.org are signed by
Finnix Archive Signing Key (A89BA58D). Both new keys are signed by
Finnix Signing Key (0897797F), which in turn is signed by both Ryan
Finnie (203ECA25) (the old key used for Finnix signing) and Ryan
Finnie (86AE8D98) (Ryan's new personal key), maintaining the web of
trust. 203ECA25 is due to be retired and revoked after the release of
Finnix 105.
Linux 3.4
Finnix 105 includes Linux 3.4, using kernel configurations based
closely on Debian's Linux 3.4 sources.
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