663: The 99.8% Rescue

663: The 99.8% Rescue

From LINUX Unplugged by Jupiter Broadcasting

April 20, 2026 · 1h 4m · Episode 663

About this episode

This episode focuses on building custom live rescue distros and recovering data.

We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access. Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and…

Topics covered

  • data recovery
  • live rescue distros
  • Linux tools
  • system administration
  • open-source software

Keywords

  • data rescue
  • live distros
  • Linux
  • SystemRescue
  • Finnix
  • VPN
  • open-source

Sponsors

Jupiter Party Annual Membership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Managed Nebula, Defined Networking

Products: SystemRescue, Finnix, aegis-boot, Fedora 41

Places: Bellingham, Washington

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