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Automatic language detection
I just added automatic langauge detection, kind of small magic before an internet connection exists. How does it work? Currently it searches for the last recently used NTUSER.DAT and reads the registry key “Control Panel\International\LocaleName” from there. Of course this requires a windows installation to be present. But since this feature is targeted at some […]
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Moving to kernel 3.17.4, adding i3 tiling window manager
I just prepared a fresh build based on kernel 3.17.4. The biggest difference is that the kernel configuration is now based on Ubuntus 3.16. On the one hand this means many drivers are included that your live system will never need, on the other hand some drivers are known to work better in this configuration. […]
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OpenVAS included, GUI for BLOB installation
We made some progress in both handling of BLOBs (binary large objects, programs like Google Chrome or TeamViewer that are only available as binary packages. A new feature is the integration of OpenVAS, a vulnerability scanner to detect unsafe devices in your networks. I am especially proud for my wrapper script to start OpenVAS: This […]
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Fresh development build – fixes BLOB support
I just uploaded an image that fixes BLOB support. To use it: dd the ISO to an USB thumb drive Pass blobsize=512 (any value between 256 and 2048 makes sense) as boot parameter upon first boot – this wil create the LessLinuxBlob partition upon first boot Download Chrome stable for i386 and put the deb […]
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Introducing BLOB support
About one and a half years ago I started implementing suport for the possibility to persistently add binary applications to LessLinux. This enables adding closed source binary only software without polluting the open source build tree. BLOB support was used in a commercial derivative to include TeamViewer. Now it is also possible to add Google […]
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Let’s develop further
Here we go with a fresh development build. The build and the included software is quite stable, but menus, themes and small stuff need lots of cleanup. Xorg moved to 1.15 and Mesa to 10.1. This allowed inclusion of some games like Quadrapassel that I like to play during data rescue or forensic sessions. A […]
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New development build with kernel 3.10.5 available + new tools
The last weeks saw many improvements that especially targetted reliability. As you probably know, LessLinux contains a feature called “ISOhybrid conversion”: Official ISO images are valid HDD images as well, so you can either burn them on a DVD or “dd” them to a thumb drive (Windows users will take Win32DiskImager to write to an […]
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Fresh build with kernel 3.6.10
I just uploaded a fresh build of LessLinux Search and Rescue. The most notable changes to the release from September are: Linux Kernel 3.6.10 Glibc updated to 2.16.0 Firefox 17.0.1 and Thunderbird 17.0 Gparted updated to 0.14.1 Tools for XFS, JFS and BTRFS added respectively re-added Nice icons in upper left corner show boot progress […]
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Release: LessLinux Search and Rescue 1.5
I am proud to present release 1.5 of LessLinux Search and Rescue. This is the first stable, open and free release from a series of rescue and recovery systems previously featured in magazines like Computer Bild. The CD targets both users unfamiliar with linux who are in search of a easy to handle live system […]
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Presenting the “Grandma Mode”
Do you also have some relatives that always ask for “family support”: When you come to their house, you find a totally f***ed up Windows XP machine with tons of spyware and you’ll get to hear “I did not do anything”. The worst part of it: While you do the work, they keep talking at […]