When I fist saw Finnix I thought … “so what?”   Why another Live CD?  However, when I loaded Finnix and then began to use it I changed my mind.  Finnix is a small Live CD packed full of tools that an administrator could use.  When I went into /etc/init.d I was suprised at how many programs were available.  Tools that I am using constantly were there, ssh, nfs, openvpn, vsftpd, mdadm and lvm2 among many others.

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The distro is very fast as you would expect.  But using it I also found it smooth and capable.  I have used it to create Logical Volumes with LVM2 and it was very easy to use.  The RAID tools are a handy option when you want to use RAID.  All in all it is a CD worth trying out.

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