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Fresh development build with kernel 3.11.5 available
I am proud to announce a fresh development build. This one targets some minor issues in older builds and adds the new kernel from the 3.11 family. However glibc is still 2.17 since I had problems with my cross compilers build with 2.18. The issues adressed are: Workaround for sound devices with too strict permissions […]
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Fresh stable release available
I just uploaded a fresh stable release. There are no big changes regarding the development build from two weeks ago. The linux kernel now is 3.9.10, Firefox and Thunderbird were also updated. Two small new features are integrated: USB installer Install LessLinux search and rescue to a thumb drive. In the installer you can select […]
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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 stable build available: Kernel 3.9.4, UEFI Support and many more
After kernel 3.8.13 was declared EOL I switched to kernel 3.9 and moved the build system to GCC 4.8.0. Besides the new kernel this release adds lots of changes and improvements.
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Fresh build with UEFI support (including secure boot) available
I just completed a fresh build based on kernel 3.8.12 and GCC 4.7.2 that introduces support for secure boot. The ISO now supports four modes: If burned to a DVD it boots on BIOS and UEFI machines – the same when written to a USB thumb drive. Many thanks to Thomas Schmitt of Xorriso fame […]
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Test build with kernel 3.8.0 available (unstable)
I just uploaded the first build containing linux kernel 3.8.0. Besides the new kernel, glibc got updated to 2.17. The most significant change is that now a (cross compiled) kernel for x86_64 is included. If necessary it will be accompagnied by a 64 bit busybox in one of the next builds. So currently three kernels […]
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Fresh stable build available
I just uploaded a fresh build that includes some significant changes on driver loading – especially WiFi now works much better. Of course most packages were also replaced by fresh versions: Linux kernel 3.7.9 is included, Firefox got updated to 19.0 (the first release with the pdf.js PDF renderer included). Other changes are relevant for […]
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Nmap and Wireshark included
I just got some requests asking for the inclusion of Nmap and Wireshark. Here we go: Winth Zenmap and Wireshark plus the command line tools tcpdump and aircrack-ng (WLAN drivers not yet patched for injection, sorry), LessLinux search and rescue just got better as a tool for network analysis. Besides this there are some minor […]
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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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Fresh build available
Dear users, I just uploaded a fresh build of LessLinux Search and Rescue. It fits to the stable line, although not all features might be perfectly tested (this might be most obvious in Wifi support for some chipsets). On the software side practically all version numbers increased: Linux kernel is 3.4.11 Firefox is version 15.0.1 […]