Is fsarchiver included as standard now? On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ryan Finnie <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJP/8iHAAoJEH5go6aGro2Y8XIP/jjn27ain0Yw2KUTWlt9l4JA > rQL2xWIUCTXlpe3VFCWq6JczYHsJ19HS+KxGa+R5jlsgToobXAbSbmQDBOnsRUkT > naRR9o3HzIuv8I65wI4v7RSbwq19HLLU97YTUio5bmz+TGLcB1x+K1lXfM6xF7jG > NpemUhWPtCck+291t5coSCl+3jAHkDF2PhWQ58AuZcbouxxUXMHCptmTNkmpQBep > Kh39Vu2Y3dyUit3JxWxPOlpg4Zc9uTKJgo3ZNrDsGTvL6t4aR22yVn9EVBXD3d+e > ZA2embIspgPpQLhqdd9y+RQd46IE+hD6B21ZxZHZiOK6leuApjN/7awCOfhrA3tA > lBm2+FbMLcNc2UfF4/0IfMRTahUNunB/K0Y81BXrCCGZ478VzHSl8cxDcualMo98 > Mg8OQocrB38zaR4aKLz5Px3YTqeeT8pu/nGlCRmRuANus82f6YJsB9i4b6c4ltvC > xTbDvZONcE5beO+fctlkgMOxDD4QQ/ahlR7WC89JJvm2hNUE67pGjeRopYOjHQzK > q4VDZ0AiSsGGET7gOSKnwXO9Z6COHJc/81eT+DccbwhlXZv7zw2/FLA3qn+webJz > eALHVscUycGAID1pWErZLscuvq9ccwXJBU4kbciDwwliUXsoMKWKvjt2l50cPzq3 > veDsnvQxXNFLh6cGutdI > =Cr2l > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > finnix mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.finnix.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/finnix >
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