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