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there used to be a couple recovery distros that used pirated linux tools. I can't remeber off my head since it was nearly a decade ago now that I'd seen them floating about, they weren't too popular because most people are just using either MRI and combo fix
I don't recall even a linux based recovery distro with that. I remember Hirens had a lot of pirate stuff on it in it's older versions, but that was a windows based recovery boot disk.