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Hi! |
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Benjamin Judas wrote: |
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> it's been a while since I stepped back as a Gentoo-developer (about 1 1/4 |
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> years) and in that time I did exactly zero. Private life (and unfortunately |
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> stress) kept sucking up my time and interest in helping out in development |
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> work. However, now after a long hiatus, I feel the need to get back to action |
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> and continue at exactly that point at which I stopped. |
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> |
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> I took the decision to reanimate "Project Dolphin". Dolphin was an |
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> experimental minimal CD similar to Grmbl aimed at semi-professionals and |
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> professionals to help repair broken systems or minimize data-loss. |
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> |
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> Opposites to the official Gentoo-Minimal-CDs it contained more software and |
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> also a working gcc (the idea behind that was to provide a quickly available |
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> distcc-host by simply bootng any additional machines in a network with the |
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> dolphin CD). |
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> |
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> Since I am sure that needs and ideas for such a CD have changed in the last 15 |
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> months, it's definitely a good idea to ask again which applications or |
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> services should be available on that CD. |
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> |
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> I hereby request every person make suggestions. Please note, that Dolphin will |
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> be a CLI-based CD only, so no X-Applications will be taken into |
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> consideration. |
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Must: |
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screen, cryptsetup with LUKS support (also in the kernel), all |
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available fscks and mkfs's (ditto for the kernel, maybe also for |
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the not-quite-so-unusual partition types), fdisk and friends, |
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partition magic(?), a "find file(s) by byte pattern on this |
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device" tool (there are several), file, iproute2, |
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ping/traceroute/tcptraceroute and ipv6-capable friends where |
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necessary, host and dig, nmap, tcdump or tshark, miitool, |
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ethtool, netcat/6, ssh, arping, lftp, pciutils (lspci), usbutils |
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(lsusb) |
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Would-be-nice: |
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mtr, partition magic, grub, tcpdump *and* tshark, ngrep, dsniff, |
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ettercap, fping, hping, scapy, netwib/wox/whatchmacallit |
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That's a quick list and I think one could argue about the |
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membership in both categories. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias |
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(not a Gentoo dev but a frequent user of live CDs) |
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You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. |
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