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Article posted on Jan 8

Finnix 86.2 Released

  • Posted by Ryan Finnie on January 8, 2006, 2:35 am

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 86.2 for the x86, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.

Finnix 86.2 contains several new features, including Linux kernel 2.6.15, improved hardware detection (using data from Fedora Core 4), improved reliability when booting from USB CDROM and thumb devices, and an expanded general-purpose task utility, aptly named "finnix". In addition, Finnix may now be installed and run directly from a hard drive. The ISO size has also been reduced, from 100MiB to 92MiB on the x86 platform, without any loss of functionality.

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One Response to “Finnix 86.2 Released”

  1. chascon says:
    January 8, 2006 at 11:35 pm

    It would be interesting to try out airport extreme with your ppc version as I believe you need a 2.6.15 as your latest incarnation apparently has.

    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=422ca8d8c38b319869a8e7a7b21a5fd6&t=99486&page=2
    https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2005-December/000733.html
    http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/links
    http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

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