Do you know about Omega?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Marcel,

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 10:26 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 12:34 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought I'd give the Omega LiveDVD�a try, but I find the security
>>> rather puzzling. First this:
>>>
>>> # To verify on Linux:
>>> # $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
>>> # Windows users use http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
>>>
>>> 89b708de224e989cbda9c5bf8feebd38d36a16f1765c60648ec2161d2bb1d551
>>> Omega-12-i686-Live.iso
>>>
>>> $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
>>> sha256sum: *-CHECKSUM: No such file or directory
>>
>> You need to download the CHECKSUM file for the image to the same directory
>> as the .iso image for that command to work.
>
> Sorry! What you say sure makes sense:) Unfortunately, the said file is
> the one that is at:
>
> <http://omega.dgplug.org/12/Live/i686/Omega-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM>
>
> and that I copied above. When it is in the download directory, I receive:
>
> sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM
> sha256sum: Omega-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM: no properly formatted SHA256
> checksum lines found
>
> There still is a problem.
>

You are correct. But its a minor problem. The CHECKSUM file has one 
character missing. If you do `cat Omega-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM', you can 
see that the checksum is shown as this,

> 89b708de224e989cbda9c5bf8feebd38d36a16f1765c60648ec2161d2bb1d551 Omega-12-i686-Live.iso

whereas the correct way to write that line is with an asterisk before 
the file name like this,

> 89b708de224e989cbda9c5bf8feebd38d36a16f1765c60648ec2161d2bb1d551 *Omega-12-i686-Live.iso

If you fix that, then the `sha256sum -c Omega-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM' 
command succeeds. I believe its just a typo, although an important one. :\

> Your name brings me to the supposition that you might be linked to the
> project. When I downloaded, at about 21h UDT, I feared the server
> resources would be tight in the first days of availability. I was
> surprised to downlaod at ~450 kBps.
>
> Do you have a fair amount of bandwidth available? It seems to me this
> "distribution" could get very popular.
>

I don't know what you are talking about here, I am just a clueless 
University student. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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