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Consolidates as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD/USB stick.
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Continues from bootloader hell, part 2
I miss Slackware. A lot.
The problem is, I can’t remember anything of what I learned all those years ago.
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/
This software boots your PC and analyse your filesystems. It displays a graphical menu for you to select which system to boot. Intended to replace LILO and Loadlin, written in C with GCC, fully real mode.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim
https://www.berlios.de/software/slim/ [ 1 ] was slim.berlios.de
It seemed nice, but it wasn’t ready for life when I tested it.
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abandoned – as of 2020-06-01 not updated since 2013-10-02
Footnotes
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Software > Instant messengers >
(on Wikipedia)
naim.n.ml.org (archive)
A client for AI, AOL, ICQ, IRC, and the lily CMC.
From “Hey, it’s a nice day I think I’ll open my window.” to “It’s almost 2am, I better get to bed soon.”, here’s another Linux install and bootloader misadventure.
Notes on my first few hours of using WordPress through wordpress.com
TODO – investigate variable/flexible width
For the initial experimentation, I picked some random theme. Today I decided to check out some other themes.
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Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on Unity Linux
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=unity
was unitylinux.org
Some developers left PCLinuxOS and founded this new distro with others.
It was aimed toward making an easily mklivecd-remasterable base distribution.
- Abandoned – officially discontinued
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As of 2016-04-18 there is some activity again, but they are a ways away from anything release-quality.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050102094407id_/http://noto.de/speed/speedcontrol.c
Uses the SET STREAMING command to set the speed of DVD-drives.
Particularly useful for quiet computing
