Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for
system administrators, based on Debian testing. Finnix 111 includes
support for the ARM architecture, OverlayFS support, as well as other
features and bugfixes.

ARM support

Finnix 111 introduces support for the ARM (armhf) architecture, in
addition to existing x86 and PowerPC archicture support. Finnix 111 for
ARM is currently classified as a "technology preview", and primarily
targets the Versatile Express A9 platform, as emulated by QEMU. This
makes it easy to download and test via QEMU on a standard PC without
special hardware.

Additional platforms are planned for the future. Finnix for ARM has been
successfully tested on the Raspberry Pi 2, when combined with Raspberry
Pi firmware a custom kernel.

http://www.finnix.org/ARM

OverlayFS support

Finnix 111 includes Linux kernel 4.0, which includes OverlayFS
functionality. Previous Finnix releases used AUFS to overlay a ramdisk
on top of a compressed root filesystem, but required a kernel patch, as
AUFS is not in the upstream Linux kernel. Finnix 111 now uses OverlayFS
directly, which means that special (non-upstream) kernel functionality
is no longer required in Finnix kernels. This will help VPS providers
better integrate Finnix into their platforms, and will make kernel
maintenance easier for future releases.

    Home page: http://www.finnix.org/
    Download: http://www.finnix.org/Download
    Release notes: http://www.finnix.org/Finnix_111_release_notes
    Free stickers! http://www.finnix.org/Free_stickers

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