All releases of Finnix


Release Notes: This release is a maintenance and rollup release. It includes updated upstream Debian software, Linux kernel 3.2, small functionality updates, and a large number of bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release includes a new forensic mode, RNG entropy gathering, a minor kernel update, a large number of bugfixes, new packages, and new minor features.


Release Notes: This release includes the recently-released Linux 3.0 kernel, a smaller distribution size using XZ (LZMA2) compression, native Xen pvops guest support, new 486 CPU support, and additional G5 CPU testing.


Release Notes: This release includes the re-introduction of PowerPC support, a large core infrastructure re-engineering, Linux 2.6.36, the addition of Hardware Detection Tool (HDT) to the x86 boot menu, and many small features and bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release includes updated upstream Debian software and Linux kernel 2.6.32. The finnix-thumbdrive utility has been removed in favor of UNetbootin, which can take a Finnix ISO and extract it to a bootable USB drive without needing to boot Finnix first. PowerPC support has been officially dropped, though future PowerPC releases may be made on a one-off basis. A new version scheme has been introduced.


Release Notes: This version includes Linux kernel 2.6.30 and updated upstream Debian software.


Release Notes: This version includes Linux kernel 2.6.26, updated upstream software, and x86 boot menu cleanups.


Release Notes: This version includes updated software (including a fix for the Debian OpenSSL security vulnerability), a Linux 2.6.25 kernel, and a new, graphical boot menu.


Release Notes: Memtest86+ has been upgraded to 2.01. Software RAID autodetection has been fixed. finnix-thumbdrive has been fixed, with udev support and support for drives over 1GB. Also included is an updated 2.6.24 kernel.


Release Notes: This release includes a new Linux kernel (2.6.24), automatic 32-bit/64-bit detection on the x86 platform, stackable RAID/LUKS/LVM detection and setup, and several bugfixes.