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## Refracta-6.0.6 is ready for prime-time.

Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:20 pm

Refracta-6.0.6 is available in "final" form (and has been ready for a couple months.) This one is much like 6.0.5: lots of command-line utilities for diagnosis and rescue and xfce4 desktop, but with a little more gnome included. Xfburn was replaced with brasero, ristretto was replaced with gthumb, squeeze (the archiver) was replaced with xarchiver. There is now multi-language support which can be activated at boot or at the desktop login screen. (check the new boot help screens for details.) Refracta Snapshot and Refracta Installer have been updated (several times.) Any additional updates to the custom scripts can be obtained easliy, as git is installed and the refracta github repo is cloned and included in the image.
Also new is a 64-bit version that uses a newer kernel from squeeze-backports, 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, and has only free software installed (main repo). There are deb files for some non-free wireless drivers in the user's home, in case someone needs to install one to get a connection.
Iso images can be downloaded here - http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... s/current/
or at the (faster) mirror here - http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/refr ... s/current/
There are also usb-hdd images (with grub bootloader), but they're only on a private server right now. I need to find a better place to store two 1gb files. I'll let nadir post the link if he wants.
Here's a partial list of what's installed:

Code:
  `unzip sudo lvm2 cryptsetup sshfs fuse-utils squashfs-tools aufs-tools genisoimage apt-file alsa-base alsa-utils wodim vrms ntfs-3g smbfs
  dosfstools ntfsprogs lshw hwinfo smartmontools lm-sensors hdparm sdparm read-edid testdisk fdupes irssi iftop iptraf zenmap ethtool pppoeconf
  curl mlocate htop scrot wipe live-boot live-config live-boot-initramfs-tools live-config-sysvinit pmount fuseiso pv mbr console-data mc
  syslinux hexedit tree ntpdate ddrescue encfs zsync screen git feh cdrdao acpi-fakekey console-common dvd+rw-tools cups clamav hddtemp moc ffmpeg p7zip-full partimage pm-utils sysv-rc-conf`

nadir

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## Re: Refracta-6.0.6 is ready for prime-time.

Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:41 pm

http://resident.dyndns.info/refracta/actual
@fsmithred: you can post this wherever you think it fits.
@ all: i can't promise the server is online (it usually is, but not if needed No, it usually is). It might be slow. etc...
(the long time members, whom i know from IRC too, can send me a public ssh-key and use rsync or whatever comfortable method, in case they consider it a solution they need. Fine for me).
Like said i started to get my head into retroshare. That is another solution.
dzz

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## Re: Refracta-6.0.6 is ready for prime-time.

Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:32 am

Using my old tin box, single core Athlon XP3200. Download mirror: http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/refr ... s/current/
Download time: 12 minutes
Load iso to syslinux usb stick: 4 minutes
Bootup usb: 40 seconds
Install to HD: 7 minutes
Reboot, all up and running and error-free.
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## Re: Refracta-6.0.6 is ready for prime-time.

Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:24 am

usb.img 32
http://min.us/m9Zvv4FFt
usb.img 64
http://min.us/mOMpGdgyc
If that solution is any better is beyond me (better like faster)
fsmithred

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## Re: Refracta-6.0.6 is ready for prime-time.

Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:39 pm

I just did a quick speed test on the downloads:
min.us - 1MB/s
nluug - 3MB/s
and I think I said I got 200K/s when I was uploading to your server. Or maybe it was 100K/s.
Edit: ibiblio - 100K/s
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