Unlike many of the other distros in this list, Rescatux can boot on both 64-bit and older 32-bit computers. The distro also ships with tools to rescue data and restore files and can wipe both Windows and Linux installs. You can very easily use Rescatux for common repair tasks such as restoring bootloaders, repairing filesystems, fixing partition tables and resetting passwords on both Linux and Windows installs. Rescatux ships with a minimal graphical desktop and bundles all the important and useful tools to fix several issues with non-booting Linux and Windows installations. New users shouldn’t expect much help from the project’s website as well as the documentation there is pretty old, though the developer has promised to update it as well. However, its usability is limited thanks to it being a command-line only distro. This makes it suitable even on machines that can’t boot from USB sticks.įinnix’s tool list is comprehensive, and virtually unrivalled. To that end the layout of the distro is optimized for CD-ROMs, which doesn’t impede when it’s used from a USB, but will result in faster boots from CDs. One of the goals of the distro is to keep the size of the final release small enough to fit inside a CD. There are several other noteworthy features as well including the use of zram swap compression, and improved remote SSH access. For instance, it now uses GRUB as default bootloader for both BIOS and UEFI systems. The distro has had a complete overhaul and now has a new build system based around Debian Testing.įinnix is also a native 64-bit distro now and features several enhancements that make it more usable on modern machines. In fact, the project recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary with a new release. The Finnix distro has been around since the early 2000s and though the project had been languishing for quite a few years, it’s developer has now actively started working on it with regular releases.
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