The first maintenance release of the Finnix 92.0 Linux distribution was released today by Ryan Finnie, its developer. The most significant feature of Finnix 92.1 (codename Crandon) is the new Debian 2.6.26-7 based Linux kernel. "Finnix 92.1 is a regular maintenance release. New features include Linux kernel 2.6.26, updated upstream software, and x86 boot menu cleanups." - said Ryan Finnie in the release announcement.

Finnix is an operating system designed to be used by system administrators for tasks like network monitoring, hard drives partitioning, rebuilding MBRs or installing other operating systems. Finnix 92.1 includes the following changes since the 92.0 release:

· The Linux kernel packages were updated to version 2.6.26 (based on Debian's 2.6.26-7);