Chiron

Chiron is a lightweight GUI Linux distribution for x86_64 devices. It's built for system rescue, diagnostics, and stress testing.

Note

If you're using Ventoy, you may need to load the ISO image in Memdisk or Grub2 mode. You should only need to do this if you get a kernel panic related to VFS mounting or a non-working init file.

Chiron can be booted from removable media such as USB storage devices and CDs, just write the ISO image to your selected media. Using tools like ventoy can be useful, as they let you boot multiple ISOs from the same USB storage device.

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Getting Started

See the Getting Started guide to begin.

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Included software

Note

More tools will be added as development progresses.

A full list of installed packages can be found here.

Disk utilities

• Photorec
• Ext4Magic
• Testdisk
• Cfdisk
• Fdisk
• GParted
• Parted
• Bonnie++
• Rsync
• Thunar
• Clonezilla
• Sysfsutils
• Gnome Disks
• SmartMonTools
• DDRescue

Stress testing

• StressDisk
• Stress
• Stress-ng
• S-Tui

Diagnostics

• Memtest86
• Htop
• IFtop
• Sysdiag
• Sysbench
• Smartctl
• HwInfo

Networking

• Speedtest-cli
• NetworkManager
• FileZilla
• Firefox

Scripting

• Python 3.12

Other utilities

• Nano

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