Bug#1005378: RFP: usbimager -- very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: jvalleroy@mailbox.org
* Package name : usbimager
Version : 1.0.8
Upstream Author : bzt (https://gitlab.com/bztsrc)
* URL : https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C
Description : very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives
USBImager is a really simple, multi-platform GUI application that
writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
Some of the features relevant for Debian systems:
- 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 17 languages
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