Talk:Dracut (software)
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Why the name? It would be interesting to know...
Dracout in AUR in Arch Linux
[edit]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dracut/
how you see they have dracout too But NOT is the default initranfs generator — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.189.8.119 (talk) 06:07, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Adoption
[edit]This section is actually quite pointless. Every major distro has such important package in their repositories. The list is definitely too short and there is no reason to extend it, however it would be usefull to list derivatives that actually use it as default initramfs tool (unlike some from the current list). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.71.95 (talk) 01:16, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
As the prior noted, this section is a bit dubious. As I have reason to read on this topic, discovered dracut is a creation of Redhat, and mainly used only in Redhat-derived distributions. (Need to add which version of Centos picked up dracut - presumably long ago.)
The original article offered a rationale, but it seems like in the years between initramfs has picked up many(?) of those features, so ... not clear how much difference there is at present. pbannister (talk) 21:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Source of name?
[edit]Is it named after Dracut, Massachusetts? —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 05:25, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, from the dracut wiki:
- > Some people inside Red Hat started to name their projects after cities and villages around the developer headquarters of Red Hat in Westford, Massachusetts.
- > So, dracut is named after the town Dracut, similar to Wayland and Weston. DuckWarfare (talk) 04:44, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
live media generation
[edit]dracut can be used for live media generation. it has flags for squashfs, and other things like overlay file system. this article should include that it supports live media, because that is a different task than normal system operating and may be important to people looking to master install media from scratch where there is already a desert of information. https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/issues/1042 2600:6C4A:1F00:2D91:D584:12D9:6408:81F9 (talk) 10:58, 29 December 2024 (UTC)