Utilities and Tools..

melloe · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2024 4:06 am Post subject:

What happened?

I guess you would have to ask Patrick Verner.

But I suspect we have a problem only someone like an independent like him can hope to address.

The hardware side, not to mention kernel and other software, is moving forward at a rate few outside the inner circles are even aware of. I was just reading an article about the status of SSD's and new optical devices.

I will not try to second guess why he put out a new version so soon. I do wish that it would slow a bit, I am running out of disks <G><
Of course it could be as simple as a minor goof up ...or not

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mmmna · . . . . Joined: 21 Apr 2024 Posts: 7224

Thanks for the reply.

With all the distros you play with, I'd think you would be using use rewritable disks. I use 8CM DVD-RW a lot: their 1.4 Gigs storage can hold the contents of a standard CD and they are small 8 Centimeter discs which spin-up faster than full sized discs. Sony part number DMW30L2 (2x speed, possibly discontinued) and similar. I just bought a 4 pack of Maxell 8CM DVD-RW (2x speed, no part number known) for $7 on closeout at my local WalMart.

melloe · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2024 3:02 pm Post subject:

I use a multitude different media for different anticipated long term use. I have some of those mini RW disks, some full size RW disks. Generally the time and handling trumps other considerations. In the past I bought CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW by the hundreds through an outlet. Ran into a couple of burners that would only burn + RW at one point, and have some of those. The handling and storage of mini RW disks make them the last choice only for very volatile fast changing cases...such as system Rescue or such that changes frequently.

As the prices have about doubled since my last purchase, I may have to re-evaluate when present expendable media get low. <G><

When the club was active, I passed out disks of NooB Linux, and various Utilities or applications. Not much of that the last year or so.

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jester · Sr. Member Joined: 19 Apr 2024 Posts: 1166

I would think an ISO image server (just save ISOs to the server, no media other than the server hard-disk) on TFTP might be a cheaper alternative - I saw a how to for that once... will dig around and update this post if I find it

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melloe · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2024 7:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Good poop

It might come to where I am doing enough that would be a viable option..

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masinick · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2024 8:07 pm Post subject:

I have done many virtual installations using an external USB drive and Virtualbox OSE. In the past I have also installed or upgraded directly from ISO images.

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melloe · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2024 8:43 pm Post subject: Clonezilla Live 1.2.4-28

Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.4-28
Clonezilla Live Steven Shiau has announced the availability of a new version of Clonezilla Live, a Debian-based live CD containing free disk-cloning software: "This release of Clonezilla Live (1.2.4-2 Cool

includes major enhancements, bug fixes, and language translation updates: new file system support - UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, it has been tested successfully for imaging FreeBSD 8.0, OpenBSD 4.6 and NetBSD 5.0.2; new file system support - VMFS of VMware ESX; i686 kernel is available in this release, so multi-core CPUs are supported; xz/lzip compression, and parallel compression, pxz and plzip, were added, you can choose "-z5", "-z5p", "-z6" or "-z6p" in the expert mode; if your machine has multi-core CPU, please use the i686 version of Clonezilla live then the -z5p and -z6p options are available in the expert mode; now both syslinux and isolinux are included in Clonezilla Live ISO image and ZIP file." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and a list of bug fixes. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.html?msg_name=4BA969C5.9010200%40nchc.org.tw

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/clonezilla_live_stable/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28-686.iso (118MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2024 1:56 am Post subject: NexentaStor 3.0

Distribution Release: NexentaStor 3.0
Nexenta OS Anil Gulecha has announced the release of NexentaStor 3.0, an OpenSolaris-based storage appliance with a web-based administration interface: "On behalf of the NexentaStor team, I'm happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community edition 3.0. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta partners and users. With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the most complete, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today. This is a major NexentaStor release, with many new features, improved hardware support, and many bug fixes. Quick summary of features: ZFS additions - deduplication (based on OpenSolaris b134); free for up to 12 TB of used storage; Community edition supports easy upgrades; many new features in the easy-to-use management interface; integrated search." Read the release announcement and visit the project's web site for further information. http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/gnusol-devel/2010-March/001503.html

Download on page above and (MD5) ttp://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/CommunityEdition
Orat www.distrowatch.com
: NexentaStor-Community-3.0.0.iso.zip (576MB).

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melloe · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2024 4:50 am Post subject: Vyatta 6.0

Distribution Release: Vyatta 6.0 for firewalls and routers
Vyatta Vyatta has announced the release of Vyatta 6.0, a Debian-based distribution for firewalls and routers: "Vyatta today announced Vyatta 6.0, the latest release of the company's open network operating system containing complete routing and network security software. Vyatta version 6.0 includes the new Vyatta Remote Access API which enables customers to control Vyatta systems using in-house and third-party network management and provisioning systems. This version of Vyatta includes more than 30 enhancements for both the Vyatta Core and Vyatta Subscription edition, and introduces the first Vyatta Plus enhanced services. The Vyatta Remote Access API dramatically simplifies network management for large deployments of Vyatta systems within enterprises and cloud-based service providers." Read the full press release http://www.vyatta.com/about/press_releases.html?id=83 and download the detailed release notes (in PDF format) http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/documentation.html
for further information.
Download links (MD5): http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/ ask one to fill in info if they want to be kwpt up to date
or at www.distrowatch.com
vyatta-livecd_VC6.0_i386.iso (158MB).

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melloe · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2024 10:59 am Post subject: Untangle Gateway 7.2

NEW • Distribution Release: Untangle Gateway 7.2
Untangle Gateway Untangle 7.2, a Debian-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications, has been released: "We are pleased to announce general availability of Untangle 7.2. Our latest version includes a new free application for Internet access control, as well as a host of enhanced features and improvements." These include updates to Captive Portal, Directory Connector and Reports: "Captive Portal supports a wide array of authentication mechanisms, from basic local directory-based authentication (on the Untangle server) to authentication through an Active Director server or RADIUS server when coupled with Untangle's Directory Connector. Untangle's AD Connector has been renamed Directory Connector. This is because it now supports both Microsoft Active Directory server, and RADIUS server." See the release notes for additional remarks about the many improvements in this release. http://www.untangle.com/products/new-release-7

Download (MD5) link on page above and http://www.untangle.com/Downloads/Download-ISO?start=true
http://sourceforge.net/projects/untangle/files/
Also linked at www.distrowatch.com
the installation CD images from here: untangle_720.iso (449MB), untangle_720_amd64.iso (435MB).

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melloe · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2024 2:21 pm Post subject: IPFire 2.5 Core 37 firewall

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.5 Core 37 firewall
IPFire Jan Paul Tuecking has announced the release of IPFire 2.5 Core 37, a specialist firewall distribution with a web-based configuration interface and a custom package manager: "Today we are going to release IPFire 2.5 Core 37. It brings the following changes: update of OpenSSH to 5.4p1, OpenSSL to 0.9.8n, Apache to 2.2.15; update of sslh to current stable; update of MadWiFi to latest stable; update of lm_sensors to current stable; enabled identd lookup for Squid; fix Cyrus SASL autorun; fix Pakfire ping test to use ICMP again; fix ath5k (no txbuf available); fix disk (media/hardware) graphs with Xen; fix temp readings for some Atom boards; fix urlfilter wasting much memory; add eject command-line tool; add possibility to change the SSH port from 222 back to standard port 22.... Because of the security updates of SSH and SSL, we recommend that all users install this core update." Please find further details in the release announcement. http://www.ipfire.org/en/news#30

Download: http://www.ipfire.org/en/download
Or at www.distrowatch.com
ipfire-2.5.i586-full-core37.iso (77.7MB, MD5, torrent).

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melloe · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 9:31 pm Post subject: SystemRescueCd 1.5.2

NEW • Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 1.5.2
SystemRescueCd François Dupoux has released SystemRescueCd 1.5.2, a Gentoo-based live CD containing tools for data rescue and disk management tasks. What's new? Enabled framebuffer console to fix extended VGA modes; moved modules to embedded kernel initramfs to reduce memory requirement; use LZMA compression instead of gzip for initramfs.igz to save space; updated alternative kernels to 2.6.33.02 (altker32 + altker64); updated standard kernels to 2.6.32.11 (rescuecd + rescue64); fixed the 'dostartx' option that startx X.Org automatically; fixed the X.Org auto-configuration script used by "wizard"; the default isolinux boot screen is now based on a menu; updated Squashfs to version 4.0 with LZMA compression." The complete changelog can be found on the project's Changes page. http://www.sysresccd.org/Changes-x86

Download the live CD image from here: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
systemrescuecd-x86-1.5.2.iso (257MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2024 4:01 pm Post subject: Parted Magic 4.10

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 4.10
Parted Magic Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 4.10, a live utility medium designed for hard disk partitioning and data rescue tasks: Parted Magic 4.10 updates grep to 2.6.3, BusyBox to 1.16.1, SimpleBurn to 1.5.0, sshfs-fuse to 2.2, Linux kernel to 2.6.32.11. There are a few new programs as well: EncFS 1.5.2, GEncFS 1.0.0, GSSHFS 1.0.0, RLog 1.4, UNetbootin 429 and emelFM 0.6.0. Parted is patched with updates from Ubuntu to reverse a decision to use a BLKRRPART instead of the BLKPG ioctls that worked. GPicView doesn't segfault any more. FAT32 file system now mounted as UTF8 by default. Many enhancements were made to the handling of SCSI device at boot. Creating bookmarks with Chromium no longer crashes the program." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. http://partedmagic.com/

Download http://partedmagic.com/download.html
Or at www.distrowatch.com
(MD5): pmagic-4.10.iso.zip (79.5MB), pmagic-usb-4.10.zip (79.5MB).

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