itvision.altervista.org -> Fedora LivePower LiveCD/LiveDVD build 20240406-0 for x86-64

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AptoSID died, SystemRescueCD is barely being developed was dormant for quite some time, which prompted me to look for alternatives but I haven't found anything decent which contains all the tools that I need without being extremely huge (e.g. Knoppix).

Let me present Fedora LivePower: an up to date and regularly updated (as long as I'm alive) Fedora snapshot which contains a whole lot of useful utilities for:

• Identifying your hardware (lshw, lspci, lsusb, etc.)
• Testing your hardware (hdparm, memtester, smartmontools/smartctl, sdparm, dd)
• Recovering data and accessing all known filesystems (chntpw, hexedit, ddrescue, par2, etc.)
• Data archiving (rsync, fdupes)
• Networking (some firmware for modern Wi-Fi adapters/network cards)
• Accessing the Internet both from graphical interface (Firefox/Transmission) and command line interface/text mode (the elinks web-browser, wget2, aria2)
• Network testing and penetration (aircrack, nmap, ngrep, tcpdump, RDP (xfreerdp), VNC viewer)
• Opening most archive types (cabextract, p7zip with plugins, unrar) and virtual machine images (qemu-img/qemu-nbd)
• Viewing images (gphoto2)
• Accessing a web camera (qv4l2)
• Core Web Fonts™
• Misc packages versions in this release: kernel-6.8.4, Firefox 124.0.1 (with full HW video decoding support), Xorg Server 1.20.14, Mesa 24.0.4, firmware 20240312, Samba 4.20.0.
• Secure boot UEFI mode is fully supported.
• MemTest86+ 7.0 (only in EFI mode).
• Wayland is not supported but you can install the appropriate packages and use it.

Some important information about this unofficial Fedora XFCE respin:

To reduce the image size, all languages other than English have been removed, along with the /usr/share/doc directory.

The distro boots into XFCE by default. No Fedora files are modified except for the modifications already made by the Fedora team. All the pertinent files are digitally signed by Fedora: this distro can be booted in secure UEFI mode on most computers by default.

The only supported architecture is x86-64/x64. To install support for x86/32/i686 binaries after booting, use the command: sudo dnf install glibc.i686.

This distro requires a minimum of 3GB of RAM to run smoothly, and at least 6GB of RAM is necessary for installing additional packages

You can either copy the distro to a USB drive or your disk drive. Please follow these instructions.

Suggestions are welcome especially from the people who are willing to support the development of this respin.

SHA256 checksum/hashsum for 20240406-0: 57ff6b39ca0d80f041490c374cd941821852f5ea14b74b2442db7f3b1808edaa.

Changelog:

• 2024-04-06: A release based on Fedora 40 beta. A ton of updated software. Removed xrdp due to its insane dependencies (imlib2->libghostscript).
• 2023-08-24: A ton of minor updates and fixes. Switched the ISO compression to ZSTD from LZMA previously - it makes it start a lot faster. Added Memtest86+ 6.20.
• 2023-08-23: Completely reworked, updated, all new packages including Firefox 116 and Linux kernel 6.4.12. Built in a clean environment. Took 13 revisions to build, I'm exhausted.
• 2020-06-16: Deprecated since no one needs it apparently (the last version is still alive)
• 2020-05-02: Firefox 75 + Linux 5.6.7 + broadcom-wl
• 2020-03-21: Firefox 74 + Linux 5.5.10
• 2020-02-26: Firefox 73.0.1 + Linux 5.5.5
• 2020-01-09: Firefox 72.0.1 + added flashrom
• 2020-01-07: Kernel 5.4.7
• 2019-12-31: The initial release

© 2019-2024 Artem S. Tashkinov. Last compiled: April 6, 2024

If you want to thank the author donations are welcome using PayPal: the link is within the distro. Thank you!