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diff --git a/system/usbimager/README b/system/usbimager/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7e3c2b5100 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/usbimager/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +USBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes +compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups. Its interface +is as simple as it gets, totally bloat-free. USBImager's main audience +is the non-expert average user, who is (sadly) afraid of the command +line. + +Features: + +- Open Source and MIT licensed +- Portable executable +- Small. Really small, few kilobytes only, yet has no dependencies +- No privacy concerns nor advertisements like with etch*r, fully GDPR + compatible +- Minimalist, multilingual, native interface on all platforms +- Tries to be bullet-proof and avoids overwriting of the system disk +- Makes synchronized writes, that is, all data is on disk when the + progressbar reaches 100% +- Can verify writing by comparing the disk to the image +- Can read raw disk images: .img, .bin, .raw, .iso, .dd, etc. +- Can read compressed images on-the-fly: .gz, .bz2, .xz, .zst +- Can read archives on-the-fly: .zip (PKZIP and ZIP64), .zzz (ZZZip), + .tar, .cpio, .pax (*) +- Can create backups in raw and ZStandard compressed format +- Can send images to microcontrollers over serial line +- Available in 18 languages + +By default, GTK3 version is built which relies on Udisks2 to get access +to USB drives. To build an X11 version which uses an SGID bit for group +disk instead: + + USE_X11=yes ./usbimager.SlackBuild + +If an X11 version can't render text in your language, you need to +install gnu-unifont (or any other Unicode-capable font), or, +alternatively, embed Unifont into the binary: + + USE_UNIFONT=yes ./usbimager.SlackBuild |