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[–] Andy@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago

A good live recovery distro that can mount bcachefs is one thing I've been waiting for before using that filesystem for a new install.

That this will have Arch tools (including arch-chroot, probably) makes this even better.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if rebasing to rolling release distro would be the best decision. Interesting regardless.

[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's been around for a very long time. It used to be Gentoo based.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I did not know that.

I guess when system recovery is the only use case, you won't need an update.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I've always used gparted from a live USB if I needed to do a disk clone or rescue, but good to see a new release for this.