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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 […]
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Fresh development build (quite stable) available
I am proud to announce a relatively stable and relatively complete development build of LessLinux Search and Rescue. It is built upon my latest efforts to emancipate from the Computer BILD flavoured “classical” desktop, moving to a sleeker desktop, using Cairo Dock and Openbox as desktop environment. The last twelve months have seen some fresh […]
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Building LessLinux – stage03, the final ISO
So now you are ready building the chroot environment – then it is time to assemble the final ISO. To do this you need an overlay containing some configuration files for the bootloader. I packaged such an overlay for the current LessLinux Search and Rescue: lesslinux-search-and-rescue-uluru-20110202-155012-overlays-en.tar.bz2. You’ll find more recent overlays here: http://download.lesslinux.org/overlays/, but when […]
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Building LessLinux – stage02
Besides the switch to SQLite there are other big changes regarding the build of stage02, which is the population of the chroot environment: LessLinux now supports tracking of dependencies after building packages. This allows to define the order of packages to build. As a consequence of the dependency tracking it is now also possible to […]
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Building LessLinux – stage01
Many changes were added since my first description of how to build LessLinux. There are two major changes that are worth noting most: We switched from MySQL to SQLite3 as database during build LessLinux is self containing now, this means you can use LessLinux to build LessLinux to build LessLinux… The stage01 build of LessLinux […]
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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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Fresh development build: ISOhybrid conversion and boot on Xen
Please do not think I didn’t work on LessLinux in the last weeks! On September 15th there will be a large press conference, where a new, LessLinux based distribution will be unveiled. Some features of this distribution are now available on current development builds. I am proud to present a development build that nicely demoes […]
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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 […]