Finnix development weblog
Finnix is a Linux-based utility live distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you’re seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more. Finnix 251 has been released today, including new official OCI / Docker images, and containing new packages, features and fixes. Finnix 251 is the first release to…
Today is a very special day: March 22 is the 25 year anniversary of the first public release of Finnix , the oldest live Linux distribution still in production. Finnix 0.03 was released on March 22, 2000, and to celebrate this anniversary, I’m proud to announce the 35th Finnix release, Finnix 250 ! Besides the continuing trend of Finnix version number inflation (the previous release was Finnix…
Today marks the release of Finnix 126, the original utility live Linux distribution. Finnix 126 includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features: Linux kernel 6.8 (Debian 6.8.12-1) New packages: libc6-i386 ( finnix/finnix#35 ; not directly usable but allows for running certain i386 binaries in Finnix’s amd64 userland) Added 0 kernel command line option which does the same as the 0 (…
Today marks the release of Finnix 125, the original utility live Linux distribution. Finnix 125 includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features: Linux kernel 6.1 (Debian 6.1.0-6) New packages: 2048, aespipe, iperf3 ( finnix/finnix#37 ), ncdu, netcat-traditional, ninvaders, vitetris Note that netcat-openbsd continues to be included and is the default nc apt update will now download both…
Today marks the release of Finnix 124, the original utility live Linux distribution. Expanding on Finnix 123 from six months ago, this release also celebrates the 22 year anniversary of the first public release of Finnix, version 0.03 on March 22, 2000. Finnix 124 includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features: wifi-connect helper utility will now display nearby access points if invoked…
As a quick follow-up to the previous post in October , a promised update of documentation and release data is now available. The finnix-docs repository has a number of pieces of current documentation which have been ported over from the old Finnix wiki. In addition, release data is now available in a consistent machine-parsable JSON format. When Finnix releases are made, a number of third party…
For the past 15 years, the main Finnix web site, finnix.org had been a MediaWiki site, being used as a CMS. Actually, for the first few years, it was a public wiki which anyone could edit, but spammers ruined that. But as of today, the site has been relaunched, as a single, simple HTML page which provides the essential information to download and use Finnix. There were a few reasons I wanted to do…
Today marks the release of Finnix 123, the LiveCD for system administrators. Expanding on Finnix 122 from six months ago, this release includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features. From the Finnix 123 release notes : Added kernel command line “sshd” and “passwd” options, example: “sshd passwd=foo”, “sshd passwd=root:foo passwd=finnix:bar” The machine ID is now, when possible, stable…
Today marks the release of Finnix 122, the LiveCD for system administrators. Expanding on Finnix 121 from six months ago, this release includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features. From the Finnix 122 release notes : Improved USB flash drive boot compatibility on older BIOSes Improved boot speed Lowered ISO size Added finnix getting started command Added wifi-connect helper script…
Today marks the release of Finnix 121, the LiveCD for system administrators. This release expands upon Finnix 120, and includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features. From the Finnix 121 release notes : Switched back to building against Debian testing Added packages: ranger (finnix/finnix#2) cpu-checker edid-decode ipmitool lldpd oathtool sdparm sipcalc socat xorriso zfs-fuse Removed…