Trinity Rescue Kit just donated 500$ of your donations to the Ocean Cleanup project [1], which aims on cleaning up the ocean of ALL plastic within 5 years and make some money of it doing so. I believe science with an economical benefit is the ONLY solution to saving the planet and mankind. The idea you had about cleaning up the ocean from plastic debris with large booms is basically what I've been thinking about as well for years. I'm just not an engineer who could work out such an idea. ... Read more

It 's been a while again since you heard some news about TRK, but it's back. Development has resumed and this time I will try to make it more structured and collaborative. Therefore I did a good cleanup of unneeded files, stripped all binaries and libraries, removed the dead and buried Trinity Remote Support Pack and upgraded the kernel to the latest 3.4.6.

Next, I published everything on bitbucket [1]as a Git repository (binaries included). And it's open for everyone to fork, clone, ... Read more

Thank you spambots, you made me upgrade my old and worn out forum. You naughty naughty spammers.

Folks, for those who have made a post on the TRK forum between December 21 and now, December 28: it's gone, I 'm sorry. I had to restore a backup since the forum was so sickened by spambots who had posted about 70.000 topics, whereas up to then there were only about 5.000 over the course of 8 years.

But hey: here 's an out-of-the-box phpBB3 for you. It will prbobaly get some alterations and ... Read more

Yes, yes, everyone keeps changing their AV engine download location and I have to follow them. I thought many of them had broken permanently, but a vigilant TRK user directed me to all new working download locations of the antivirus soft.
Here ' s a status update:
-BitDefender failed to properly install. This alternate version installs and runs alright. Make sure you have enough RAM or run 'getswap [1]' first in a machine with 512Mb or less
-F-prot download location was broken. A new ... Read more

Nice article on Customizing your own Trinity Rescue Kit. [1]

Teaches you how to change the logo and add software by using the TRK devkit.

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[1] http://www.toniblogs.com/10/2011/linux/customizing-trinity-rescue-kit/ Read more

Yesterday I did a checkup on TRK and found out a few virusscan antivirus-engine links had broken or were at newer versions.
As TRK 'virusscan' users may know, 'virusscan' is a wrapper script that fetches external AV engines from the internet and uses a pointer where to find them from a url which it gets on a secure connection to trinityhome.org
Here 's the status of the 5 AV engines integrated in TRK 'virusscan':

-ClamAV: updated from 0.97.1 to 0.97.2. Update will happen automatically ... Read more

It's been 8 months now since the first 3.4 build, so I figured it was time for an updated release, now at build 372.

There are no world shocking changes in this release, but it might be important for people using recent hardware.
Here 's the changelog since TRK 3.4 build 367:

-kernel 2.6.37.1
-hfsplusutilities 1.0.4-r1 (Gentoo sources) for Mac support
-hfs, hfsplus added as filesystem to mountallfs
-recompiled ntfsprogs with ntfsck. Don't expect too much from ntfsck: it's a very ... Read more

Journalists from the German Linux Magazin [1] reported us that TRK was generating dangerous false positives when using virusscan in combination with ClamAV, the default TRK virusscan scan engine.

I immediately responded by asking logfiles and there I found out the false positive came from a combination of using Clamav 0.96.1 together with signature files between 2011-02-04 and 2011-02-07

Luckily, updating to version 0.96.5 fixes the problem. User who now run virusscan under TRK, will ... Read more

Podnutz, a website about computer repair, did a podcast interview with Tom Kerremans about Trinity Rescue Kit.
Go to http://www.podnutz.com/ [1]or download and listen to the interview here [2]
Put it on your mp3 player, it takes about an hour. You might learn some more great tips on TRK.

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[1] http://www.podnutz.com/
[2] http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.podnutz.com/episodes/podnutz/podnutz052.mp3 Read more

Big news from the Trinity Rescue Kit camp: an all new version of the live distro has just been published after almost a year of (public) silence.

People, we can't hide our excitement: the new TRK 3.4 is better, easier and more debugged than ever before!
The biggest visible enhancement here is the addition of a menu interface. Not a graphical one -who needs that in a rescue distribution?- but a text based, scrollable menu from which any regular computer user can perform otherwise ... Read more