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jauntywundrkind wrote 37 min ago:
Anyone have some recommendations for a live distro that can run from
ram?
It'd be nice to have a live image that I can put on a partition, that I
can then delete the partition out from under while doing a bootstrap
onto that same disk. Very useful on cloud instances that aren't great
about letting you bring your own ISO.
I had some weird debian-live scripts thst tried doing a tmpfs & copying
a btrfs snapshot onto it and launching that, but I never felt great
about it, quite a hack.
eisbaw wrote 5 min ago:
I would think anything that works with PXE network boot would
qualify.
For cloud stuff, nixos-anywhere.
manuel_w wrote 47 min ago:
Finnix seems to serve the same use case as GRML Linux it seems.
I never tried Finnix, but GRML helped me a few times so far.
teddyh wrote 9 min ago:
Note: Grml did a new release last friday: Grml 2025-12.
xnorswap wrote 1 hour 8 min ago:
I see this predates Knoppix.
What did Knoppix get right that this got wrong, to the point where
Knoppix quickly became synonymous with live-distrubution?
ginko wrote 42 min ago:
I used to have a Knoppix disc signed by Klaus Knopper. Wonder what
happened to that one..
meatmanek wrote 46 min ago:
> 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.[7]
My reading of this is that early versions of Finnix were based on
Knoppix. However, according to the wikipedia sidebars, the initial
release of Knoppix was 30 September 2000, while the initial release
of Finnix was March 22, 2000. Something something beta/pre-release
versions?
looperhacks wrote 8 min ago:
From the Wikipedia article:
> Finnix 0.01 was based on Red Hat Linux 6.0, and was created to
help with administration and recovery of other Linux workstations
around Finnie's office.[citation needed] The first public release
of Finnix was 0.03, and was released in early 2000, based on an
updated Red Hat Linux 6.1.
So it seems that it was based on Knoppix later
seemaze wrote 1 hour 0 min ago:
I've used finnix forever as my go to live recovery distro, and have
never heard of knoppix.
From a cursory search, it appears that finnix is focused on the
command line while knoppix provides a desktop environment. Don't most
distros offer live boot environments these days? I know I've done
this with Fedora, Debian, Suse, and Alpine at least..
zem wrote 55 min ago:
> From a cursory search, it appears that finnix is focused on the
command line while knoppix provides a desktop environment
if knoppix was one of the first live distros to offer a full
desktop environment, that's definitely what they got right.
fuzztester wrote 7 days ago:
I had tried it out on my PC a few years ago.
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