Hi Debian Live,
I wanted you to know that I am resuming Rescatux development.
1) Rescatux is a Debian-based live distribution featuring a graphical
wizard for rescuing broken GNU/Linux and Windows installations and boot
loaders. ( https://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/ ).
Rescatux is built thanks to live-build onto a CDROM that supports:
- 686 kernel
- amd64 kernel
- IA32 UEFI
- x64 UEFI
- Media with SELinux Filesystem so that the Live Media can be boot in
SELinux Permissive mode.
- Automatic Arch Detection for Syslinux
- Automatic Arch Detection for Grub2 (This is already in upstream
live-build)
- LiveID so that two different isos can be differentiated.
.
2) As such I will be adding either new features to live-build or
recycling old features that only were found on the Rescatux's live-build
( https://github.com/rescatux/live-build ) and live-boot (
https://github.com/rescatux/live-boot ) forks.
My main approach will be to send draft merge-requests onto Salsa and
just discuss them there.
That's what I was advised to do back in the day, probably around 2021.
If you think it's much better to discuss them in a thread here in the
mailing list just let me know.
3) As a summary of what I will be working on (which might be converted
onto a Merge Request or not) is:
- Add SELinux support to live-build (
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/commit/d93a98634bb915c4c943a7b53dc9f44e8c5a5e4b
)
- Add LiveID support
* Live-boot (
https://github.com/rescatux/live-boot/commits/liveid-001/ )
* Live-build (
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/commits/1a895c14216fe4f3a241b456fa19d1c603558fd2/
)
* About LiveID ( https://github.com/rescatux/liveid )
- IA32 UEFI shim not provided when 686 and amd64 are installed
*
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/commit/c8738fb101859f23b3e74623e9696f5c3940a9b3
*
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/commit/0713b0c409714e1214ccbff5a5daa67f0e95164f
- Arch Detection for Syslinux
*
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/commit/99ddc7bb9510ee4810b55a391e35060dd68cf9ee
* https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/25
- Non-free firmware by default in Live-Build
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2022/12/msg00002.html
Be aware that the links above are branches or tags related to 2021's
code so that's not what I'm going to Merge Request. I will have to
rework some code and probably some of it will be written from scratch. I
have added the links just in case anyone was curious about knowing more
about these features.
4) So if you see that I begin to post here or in the salsa merge
requests more frequently than before that's why.
adrian15
