Finnix is another Linux Live CD. Like SystemRescueCD, it's 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.
But Finnix is based on Debian, not Gentoo.
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Damn Small Linux (or DSL) is another Linux distribution that deserves a closer look someday. It's light enough that it should even run on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM and it can run fully in RAM with only 128MB of RAM.
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SystemRescueCd is my favorite Linux live CD's for system recovery and related tasks. It is based on Gentoo and comes with all the right toys to make me happy. :-)
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Sabayon Linux seems like an interesting distribution to try some day. Maybe.
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Here's a nice post by Vivek Gite about ten of his biggest command line mistakes. The comments are good too.
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By
Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on
March 13, 2010, at 21:03 |
I'm scanning old Flor y Fauna news letters for my Dutch Hardwood Investment Wiki. I need to do this because most of these newsletters, although produced digitally, are available in the Sicirec archive only in paper form. The only graphical item these news-letters sport is a simple graphical header, so I want to convert the scans to text and put the text in a wiki article for each newsletter; I don't want to upload dozens of image-heavy PDFs just to show the original (crappy) layout.
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Rowan Rodrik, 7 months ago, on
February 02, 2010, at 17:02 |
Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more.
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Rowan Rodrik, 7 months ago, on
February 01, 2010, at 00:02 |
Because Arnold Pilon is migrating his workplace to Apple, I could get his old PC and peripherals for free. Among its peripherals was an old HP LaserJet 6P, still perfectly working.
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Rowan Rodrik, 7 months ago, on
January 30, 2010, at 01:01 |
On every machine that I install, I need a custom environment. At the very basic, I need screen and bash customizations. I will attempt to keep this blog post up-to-date with my most recent config.
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halfgaar, 8 months ago, on
January 04, 2010, at 11:01 |
I just used the following command for converting a directory with a bunch of MP3s to WAV. Does someone know a command that is shorter? I find mine a bit convoluted to say the least.
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Rowan Rodrik, 9 months ago, on
December 06, 2009, at 22:12 |
