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Finnix is a Debian based LiveCD Linux distribution, developed by Ryan Finnie and intended for system administrators for tasks such as filesystem recovery, network monitoring and OS installation. Finnix is a relatively small distribution, with a ISO download size of approximately 100MiB, and is available for the x86, PowerPC, User Mode Linux and Xen architectures. Finnix can be run off a bootable CD, USB thumb drive, or hard drive. Xen is an open-source virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, developed by the University of Cambridge. ...
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History
Finnix development first began in 1999, making it one of the oldest distributions released with the intent of being run completely from a bootable CD (the other LiveCD around at the time was the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card CD). Finnix 0.01 was based on Red Hat Linux 6.1, and was created to help with administration and recovery of other Linux workstations around Finnie's office. The first public release of Finnix was 0.03, and was released in early 2000, based on an updated Red Hat Linux 6.2. Despite its 300MiB ISO size and requirement of 32MiB RAM (which, given RAM prices and lack of high-speed Internet proliferation at the time, was prohibitive for many), Finnix enjoyed moderate success, with over 10,000 downloads. Unfortunately, development ceased, and Finnix was left unmaintained until 2005. Linuxcare (now Levanta) was a San Francisco-based company founded in 1998 by Dave Sifry, Art Tyde and Dave LaDuke. ...
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On 23 October 2005, Finnix 86.0 was released. Earlier unreleased versions (84, and 85.0 through 85.3) were "Knoppix remasters", with support for Linux LVM and dm-crypt being the main reason for creation. However, 86.0 was a departure from Knoppix, and was derived directly from the Debian "testing" tree. Today, Finnix includes some software written for Knoppix (such as hwsetup, the utility responsible for loading kernel modules based on probed PCI devices), but the two distributions are considered separate and serve different purposes. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ...
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Knoppix is a Linux distribution LiveCD. Knoppix is a Debian based Linux distribution running on a CD or DVD drive without using the hard drive or installing any files onto the hard drive. ...
LVM is an implementation of a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel. ...
Usage Finnix is released as a small bootable CD ISO. A user can download the ISO, burn the image to CD, and boot into a text mode Linux environment. Finnix requires at least 32MiB RAM to run properly, but can use more if present. Most hardware devices are detected and dealt with automatically, such as hard drives, network cards and USB devices. A user can modify files nearly anywhere on the running CD via UnionFS, a filesystem that can stack a read-write filesystem (in this case, a dynamic ramdisk) on top of a read-only filesystem (the CD media). Any changes made during the Finnix session are transparently written to RAM and discarded upon shutdown. In addition, Finnix uses SquashFS to keep distribution size low. A SquashFS filesystem takes a regular filesystem tree and compresses it, often achieving a 3:1 compression ratio. Then, when the filesystem is mounted, data chunks are decompressed on-the-fly. UnionFS is a file system that presents a single logical file system as a union of all files and directories of several file systems. ...
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Finnix can be run completely within RAM, provided the system has at least 192MiB RAM available. If a "toram" option is passed to Finnix, most of the contents of the CD are copied to a ramdisk, and the CD is ejected, freeing the CDROM drive for other purposes. Finnix can also be placed on a bootable USB thumb drive, or installed permanently on a hard drive.
Finnix is available for several architectures. The primary (and most popular) architecture is x86, but a nearly identical functioning distribution is released concurrently for the PowerPC architecture. In addition, Finnix is aware of both the User Mode Linux and Xen virtualization systems. In particular, the Finnix x86 CD includes a system called Finnix on Finnix, which, through UML, can boot multiple concurrent instances of Finnix, using the same CD the main Finnix instance was booted from. UML and Xen Virtual private server providers such as Linode can provide Finnix as a recovery/maintenance distribution to their customers. x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ...
PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ...
User-mode Linux (UML) is an architectural port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface. ...
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Versions March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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See also A list of LiveCDs based on different operating systems: // BSD derived DragonFly BSD [1] FreeSBIE (Based on FreeBSD) Frenzy mini-CD (Based on FreeBSD) NetBSD - Livecd images made of NetBSD 2. ...
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External links - Finnix homepage
- Finnix's profile on DistroWatch
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