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Show HN: LifeboatLinux, recover your damaged system from a 35Mb EFI Linux distro

Posted by hchinchilla on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:41AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/hugochinchilla/lifeboat_linux

I was tired of having to search for a USB drive every time I mess something with my computer so I decided to create this small EFI file that can be put in your EFI partition to boot from it. It has everything you should ever need to mount your filesystem and chroot to it so you can fix it. You just need to drop the file in your EFI partition and you can boot to it from your BIOS menu.I would...

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Re:An Internet of PHP on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:34AM (#37443626)
I use RoadRunner for that purpose. It even has some amazing features you can enable as keeping the application loaded in memory between requests.

https://roadrunner.dev/

Re:Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use? on Saturday May 18, 2013 @04:13PM (#5730267)
I Use Gnome 3 with i3 as window manager at work and Unity at home.
Re:Docker - the Linux container runtime on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:32PM (#5410941)
http://github.com/hugochinchilla
Re:Show HN: A personal Gmail on Monday November 19, 2012 @11:40AM (#4805104)
I would use it if I could host it on my own server and run it on top of Gmail using IMAP and Postgres as a cache.

I could pay 30-50$ for it, but I think this would be even more awesome as an OpenSource solution, your product rocks compared to other alternatives as SquirrelMail, and you can always offer a hosted plan as a way to make money from it.

Re:Wat on Thursday January 26, 2012 @06:52PM (#3516537)
Thanks, I'll look how to get this working on linux.
Re:Wat on Thursday January 26, 2012 @06:30PM (#3516470)
Does anybody knows which is the javascript interpreter he is using on the screencast?
Re:This may be the best resume I have ever seen on Saturday February 05, 2011 @06:47PM (#2184410)
> Attempts a comparative analysis of experience with different tools both as a "developer" and a "designer" without explaining the significance of either term; what's a "Photoshop CS5 Developer" or a "Textmate Designer"?

It's an interpretation error, the bars indicate expertise and frequency of use (shown below).