New Trinity Rescue Kit available
[Posted January 3, 2006 by ris]
| From: |
| "Tom Kerremans" <harakiri-AT-trinityhome.org> |
| To: |
| <lwn-AT-lwn.net> |
| Subject: |
| New Trinity Rescue Kit available |
| Date: |
| Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:41:14 +0100 |
More than two years after the much appreciated Trinity Rescue Kit 1.1, a
Linux livecd to rescue dead systems, the author Tom Kerremans finally
managed to create Trinity Rescue Kit 3.0
Since TRK 2.0 was a halfly finished, deadborn, never released version, the
author decided to start again from scratch, baptising this release version
3.0
Aside from the features already in TRK 1.1, many rescue and management
features have been added and existing seriously improved and debugged.
A brief sumup of what TRK 3.0 can do more than any other rescue
distribution:
-easily, without the need of Linux knowledge reset Windows passwords
-full ntfs read/write access thanks to the integration of the Captive NTFS
Project
-automatic virusscan of all local filesystems with 2 different virus engines
-clone Windows XP computers over the network between two TRK machines.
-automatic search and undelete files from ntfs volumes
-windows registry editing
-automatically search and mount all filesystems, including those on USB
storage devices
-LAN configuration can be adapted to provide parameters and extra script
execution using DHCP and a webserver. This opens the automatic ability to
use a proxyserver
-search for scripts to run from harddisk or usb storage
-run a ssh server to enable remote rescueing
-straightforward startup options
-many standard and non-standard utlities like qtparted and links in
graphical framebuffer mode, testdisk, tcpdump, mdadm, raidutils.
-kernel 2.6.14.3 supporting most known hardware (all disk controllers,
ethernet, also gigabit ethernet)
Trinity Rescue Kit contains nothing but GPL licensed material, and contains
everything a system administrator should need when a computer is in need of
some offline attention. Plus it 's free, altough a small donation might be a
token of appreciation for the hard work there has been put in making this
toolkit.
To find out more about the project, check out http://trinityhome.org/trk/