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Article posted on May 5

Finnix Codenames

Posted by Ryan Finnie on May 5, 2006, 12:26 am

Having a high version number just isn't enough. All of the cool distros have codenames, so I decided to jump on board. Finnix is not cool enough to have a codename such as Oscillating Ocelot; instead, I will be using places in Wisconsin, my original home state. There is certainly enough to choose from, with over 2000 cities, towns and villages in the state. However, I figured I should stick with places that 1) I've heard of, and 2) can be pronounced with relative ease. That means no Oconomowoc, Trempealeau or Nasewaupee (yes, those are all real).

First up is Pulaski, a village of about 3000, about 30 minutes outside Green Bay (my hometown). Pulaski is famous for polka, and every year hosts Polka Days. Pulaski is also the location of the first modem bank set up at the ISP I used to work for. (I still have the number memorized after all these years, 414-822-6382, though the area code has changed since then.)

[*] Finnix dev (Pulaski) ready; 357 packages, 98M compressed

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Article posted on May 2

Finnix Development Update

Posted by Ryan Finnie on May 2, 2006, 2:36 pm

Finnix development stalled for the past month since the release of 87.0, mainly because there wasn't much to do, so I tended to other things. However, there's been some work in the past 48 hours:

Did a dist-upgrade to bring it up to sync with current etch
Added "set mark-symlinked-directories on" to /etc/inputrc (Finnix uses symlinks a lot, and it's annoying having to double-tab when you want to tab-complete to /etc, for example; this fixes that)
Added dmidecode and selectable modules to finnix-hwsubmit
Added "dos" boot profile (boots into FreeDOS)
Replaced hwsetup with a new, faster "pcimodules" routine

That last line is where all the neat is. Here's a rough idea how current Finnix 87.0 boots its initrd:

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