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 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:39 am Post subject: Utilities and Tools.. |
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Updated Sep 2025
Distribution Release: Parted Magic 4.4 stable, also now available 4.5 rc1
partedmagic
This new version of Parted Magic has some major updates. Users can now get online with dial-up networing through our "Start Network" program. Parted Magic is not in the desktop media business, but ALSA sound drivers and ALSA core programs were added if you would like to use a media player. We highly suggest Slackware-12.x packages. Unionfs is now being used for the big directories and Parted Magic's RAM usage, with the "default" boot option, has been halved. That's right, it only takes 256MB of RAM to run completely run from system memory and free up that CDROM drive or USB stick. At boot time the SSH daemon is started and public keys are generated, so that's one less thing for people using SSH to deal with. Last but not least you will notice that Super Grub Disk is now an option in the boot menu.announcement.. http://partedmagic.com/
http://partedmagic.com/download.html
or of course www.distrowartch.com
pmagic-4.3.iso.zip (92.8MB, MD5).
Patrick Verner has lost his job | Quote: | would absolutely love to get out of my current line of work and become a full time Linux System Administrator. If anybody has an opening for a 100% self taught Linux hack, I'm willing to relocate anywhere in the US. 
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I wish him luck. Him and TOO many others
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:40 am Post subject: SystemRescueCd |
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Updated 16 May 2025 See Update 1.3.0 2025-09-14:
Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 1.2.0
systemrescue François Dupoux has released SystemRescueCd 1.2.0, a Gentoo-based live CD with a collection of hard disk management and data rescue utilities: "SystemRescueCd 1.2.0 has just been released. It's a major release and it comes with a new kernel version, new desktop environment, and update for important packages. First, the graphical environment has been updated. It's now based on X.Org Server 1.5.3, which improves the hardware support and comes with new drivers. The desktop environment is now Xfce, because it's both very good (very comfortable, many settings) and very small. Parts of Xfce which are not essential and which have many dependencies have not been included. The kernel has been updated to version 2.6.29; it comes with more drivers and it also supports the very promising Btrfs file system (still under heavy development). GParted has been updated to 0.4.5." Read the complete release announcement to learn about other major changes in this release.
http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2009/05/12/systemrescuecd-120-released/
http://www.sysresccd.org/Changes-x86
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
Or at www.distrowatch.com
systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.7.iso (235MB, MD5).
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:42 am Post subject: Trinity Rescue kit |
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Trinity Rescue kit
Trinity Rescue Kit, a Linux bootable CD designed to recover/repair dead Windows or Linux systems
Clone partitions, and general HDD/OS salvage operations.
TRK Website is a mess, but several over at pclos forum recommend it.
Forum
http://trinityhome.org/phpbb2/
Download stable is at bottom of page
http://mirror.tuxinator.org/trinityhome/
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:48 am Post subject: Frenzy administrator toolkit |
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Frenzy 1.1 administrator toolkit updated Aug 2025
Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD)
http://frenzy.org.ua/en/
http://frenzy.org.ua/en/releases/1.0/download.shtml
08.12.2008. At last, Frenzy 1.1 released. See release notes for further information.
This is a final release of Frenzy, I'm discontinue development of this project.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 10:05 am Post subject: grml toolkits |
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• Distribution Release: grml 2025.05 Updated 1 June 2025
grml Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2025.06, a Debian-based distribution and live CD featuring a superb collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts designed for users of text tools and system administrators: "grml 2025.05 with codename Lackdose-Allergie, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32-bit and 64-bit editions, has been released. New features: boot option persistent - use persistence feature on grml; boot option findiso - dynamic version of boot option isofrom, findiso looks for the specified ISO file on all disks; boot option bsd - boot minimal MirOS BSD operating system; boot option hdt - minimalist hardware detection tool; boot option readonly - mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations; boot option hwspeak - probe all available speakup hardware modules...." Consult the release announcement and release notes for further details.
http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.05/
What are Med and small http://grml.org/faq/#whatismedium
Download Full ~700M, Med ~200M, or small ~100M with no X org
http://grml.org/download/
or full only at nwww.distrowatch.com
grml_2009.05.iso (682MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2009.05.iso (699MB, MD5, torrent).
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 10:17 am Post subject: Aloofix build kit |
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Aloofix is a Linux distribution conceptually similar to Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough OS), but much more aggressive when it comes to the term "just enough". The build environment consists of a collection of makefiles, scripts, and configuration files capable of creating a bootable ISO image. This ISO image contains a small set of scripts and utility programs for installing Aloofix on a primary hard drive in a virtual machine environment. The build environment provides the raw materials for creating and provisioning a set of guest instances for VirtualBox, VMware, and QEMU.
http://www.aloofschipperke.com/aloofix.html
Aloofix is build kit for creating a minimalist Linux distribution optimized for running in a virtual machine.
Version 0.7 is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/aloofix/
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 10:29 am Post subject: Endian Firewall |
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Endian Firewall
a firewall appliance based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Highlights: enhanced management of WAN/RED connections (support for multiple uplinks, multiple IPs and networks on each WAN/RED interface in STATIC mode, uplink monitoring with automatic failover); Port forwarding (multiple uplink support, allowing different rules per uplink, port forwarding of traffic coming from VPN end points, option for rule-based logging); system access (external access has now been enhanced and renamed to system access, fine-grained management of permissions regarding access to the system from LAN, WAN, DMZ and VPN end points)...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information.
Home Company: http://www.endian.com/en/
Download the community edition ( now at 2.3 rc1 )
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.html?group_id=132104
http://distrowatch.com/table.html?distribution=endian
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 11:15 am Post subject: Linux From Scratch |
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Linux from Scratch
Interesting project
If you are interested
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux system entirely from source. So this could go anywhere.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/
The LFS repositories and Live CD possibilities from a bare mini of about 237 Megs to a full <700 meg live CD
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 11:26 am Post subject: Free NAS |
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Free NAS new version 7 Nov 2025
freenas Volker Theile has released FreeNAS 0.7, a FreeBSD-based NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting CIFS, FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC and iSCSI protocols: "Today I am proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. Majors changes: add ability to configure the login shell for a user; upgrade Samba to 3.0.37; upgrade Transmission to 1.72; local users must join the 'ftp' group to be able to login via FTP if 'Local users only' in 'Services, FTP' is enabled; upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.23; add a user portal, this allows a local user to login and change the password; upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2a; upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.2.3; Upgrade NTFS-3G to 2025.4.4; upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.8; add Adaptec AACRAID 32/64-bit driver to 5.2.0 Build 17517; upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.14.10; upgrade fuppes to SVN-0.640." See the release announcement for a complete changelog. http://www.freenas.org/?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=24
Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/stable/0.7
or www.distrowatch.com
FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.7.iso (70.5MB, MD5), FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.7.iso (73.8MB, MD5.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 11:43 am Post subject: Super Grub |
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Super Grub
We want Linux newbies to restore their new toy, but also help the Linux advanced user make potentially dangerous operations to the MBR in a safe way. Super Grub Disk is also a teaching tool to help you learn more about bootloaders and the booting process. After all, booting is the most important thing your computer does -- without the boot process, you would not have an operating system to use!
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
Downloads on the right all types
CD download
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/?pid=5
Sep 2025 latest version only available mirror #0 temporally
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:23 pm Post subject: Finnix 92.0 |
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Finnix 92.0 NOTE New version 92.1 ( Kernel upgraded to Debian 2.6.26-7 and a few other changes. 6 Dec 2025
finnix Ryan Finnie has announced the release of Finnix 920, a specialist, Debian-based live CD for system administrators: Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution ("LiveCD") for system administrators, based on Debian testing. You can mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more. Finnix includes the latest technology for system administrators, with Linux kernel 2.6.25, LVM2, encrypted partitions, etc. And above all, Finnix is small; currently the entire distribution is over 300MiB, but is dynamically compressed into a bootable image of about 100MiB1. Finnix is not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops, productivity tools, or sound support, in order to keep distribution size low. Graphical boot menu though
http://www.finnix.org/
Download on page
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:34 pm Post subject: Clonezilla |
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New version 6 Oct 2025
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!
Almost any file system. ( no LVM1, 2 OK ) can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
http://www.clonezilla.org/
Downloads
http://www.clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/
or www.distrowatch.com
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:50 pm Post subject: Ranish Partition Manager |
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Ranish Partition Manager is a powerful hard disk partitioning tool.
It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems,
such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk.
Partition Manager can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions.
It includes command line interface and simulation mode that works with large files
so you can safely experiment before working on the real hard drive partition tables.
( Old Faithful )
http://www.ranish.com/part/
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 1:01 pm Post subject: GParted |
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GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). See Features, before using it.
GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Downloads
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.html
NOTE New stable version Aug 2025
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.html
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 1:41 pm Post subject: Mondo Rescu |
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Mondo Rescue archives Linux and Lin/Win sytems to tapes or CDs, which may be used to restore some or all of your OS and data in the event of catastrophic data loss. The emphasis is on stability and ease of use. Currently, ext2, ext3, (v)fat, minix, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported, as are RAID and LVM.
http://www.mondorescue.org/
Download
http://www.mondorescue.org/downloads.shtml
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