Release of Finnix 120, a live distribution for system administrators

After five years of inactivity in honor of the 20th anniversary of the project resumed preparation of new releases of the Live distribution kit Finnix, based on the Debian 10.4 package base and the Linux 5.4 kernel. The distribution only supports working in the console, but contains a good selection of utilities for the needs of the administrator. The composition includes 586 packages with all sorts of utilities. Size iso image - 477 MB.

Π’ new release a complete reworking of the distribution is noted, which is now released only for the x86_64 architecture and supports work on systems with BIOS and UEFI (including support for UEFI Secure Boot). A large number of new utility packages have been added - the image size has been increased from 160 MB to 477 MB. The automatic mode for configuring partition layouts on block devices has been removed, instead of which a configurator based on udisksctl has been proposed. Removed support for legacy boot modes and build system NEALE (for assembly, standard tools are now used debian live).

Release of Finnix 120, a live distribution for system administrators

Source: opennet.ru

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