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			<title>Network Security Toolkit</title>
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				NST is a bootable ISO live CDDVD is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to bestofbreed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms.The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article Top 100 Security Tools by insecure.org are available in the toolkit.What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86 systems Pentium II and above into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, a virtual system service server, or a sophisticated networkhost scanner. This can all be done without disturbing or modifying any underlying subsystem disk. NST can be up and running on a typical x86 notebook in less than a minute by just rebooting with the NST ISO CDDVD. The notebook's hard disk will not be altered in any way.NST also makes an excellent tool to help one with all sorts of crash recovery troubleshooting scenarios and situations.
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			<title>Knoppix STD</title>
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				STD is a Linuxbased Security Tool. Actually, it is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools. It's a Live Linux Distro, which means it runs from a bootable CD in memory without changing the native operating system of the host computer. Its sole purpose in life is to put as many security tools at your disposal with as slick an interface as it can.
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				Nintendo GameCube Linux is a project to port Linux to the Nintendo GameCube and now the Wii in the same manner as Xbox Linux.The GameCube was seen to be a less attractive system to port Linux to since it not only lacked an onboard ethernet port and internal hard drive, but also an optical drive natively capable of reading DVDs.Nintendo GameCube Linux also recognizes SD Cards and Multimedia Cards and is able to use them normally, given the appropriate adaptor.
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			<title>PlayStation 2 Linux</title>
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				Linux for PlayStation 2 or PS2 Linux is a kit released by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2002 that allows the PlayStation 2 console to be used as a personal computer. It included a Linuxbased operating system, a USB keyboard and mouse, a VGA adapter, a PS2 network adaptor Ethernet only, and a 40 GB hard disk drive HDD. An 8 MB memory card is required it must be formatted during installation, erasing all data previously saved on it, though afterwards the remaining space may be used for savegames. It is strongly recommended that a user of Linux for PlayStation 2 have some basic knowledge of Linux before installing and using it, due to the commandline interface for installation.The Linux Kit turns the PlayStation 2 into a fullfledged computer system, but it does not allow for use of the DVDROM drive except to read PS1 and PS2 discs due to piracy concerns by Sony. Although the HDD included with the Linux Kit is not compatible with PlayStation 2 games, reformatting the HDD with the utility disc provided with the retail HDD enables use with PlayStation 2 games but erases PS2 Linux, though there is a driver that allows PS2 Linux to operate once copied onto the APA partition created by the utility disc. The Network Adaptor included with the kit only supports Ethernet a driver download is available to enable modem support if the retail Network Adaptor which includes a builtin V.90 modem is used. The kit supports display on RGB monitors with syncongreen using a VGA cable provided with the Linux Kit, or television sets with the normal cable included with the PlayStation 2 unit.The PS2 Linux distribution is based on Kondara MNULinux, a Japanese distribution itself based on Red Hat Linux. PS2 Linux is similar to Red Hat Linux 6, and has most of the features one might expect in a Red Hat Linux 6 system. The stock kernel is Linux 2.2.1, but it can be upgraded to a newer version such as 2.2.21, 2.2.26 or 2.4.17.
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			<title>Free60</title>
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				Free60 is the successor to the Xbox Linux Project that aims to put Linux, BSD, or Darwin on the Microsoft Xbox 360 using a software or hardware based hack. The Xbox 360 uses hardware encryption and will not run unsigned code out of the box.The project's goals were met in March 2007, when shortly after the announcement of a critical software vulnerability in the Xbox 360 Hypervisor a loader for Linux appeared, which allowed to run a Linux ported to the Xbox 360.To date, there are two Linux kernel patchsets available, one for 2.6.21 and one for 2.6.24.3. Three main Linux distributions may be run on the Xbox 360 Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu Linux, the last two of which are easily installable to the Xbox 360 hard drive by scripts provided by members of the Free60 project.
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				Xbox Linux is a project that ported the Linux operating system to the Microsoft Xbox video game console. Because the Xbox uses a digital signature system to prevent the public from running unsigned code, one must either use a modchip, or a softmod. Originally, modchips were the only option. However, it was later demonstrated that the TSOP chip on which the Xbox's BIOS is held may be reflashed. This way, one may flash on the cromwell BIOS, which was developed legally by the Xbox Linux project. Catalyzed by a large cash prize for the first team to provide the possibility of booting Linux on an Xbox without the need of a hardware hack, numerous softwareonly hacks were also found. For example, a buffer overflow was found in the game 007 Agent Under Fire, allowing the booting of a Linux loader xbeboot straight from a save game.The Xbox is essentially just a PC, with a custom 733MHz Intel Mobile Celeron processor, an 8GB useraccessible. Actual capacity is 10GB hard drive, 64MB of RAM although on all earlier boxes this is upgradable to 128MB, and 4 USB ports The controller ports are actually USB 1.1 ports with a modified connector. These specifications are enough to run several readily available Linux distributions.An Xbox with Linux installed can act as a full desktop computer with mouse and keyboard, a webemail box connected to a TV, a server, router or a node in a cluster. One can either dualboot or use Linux only in the latter case, one can replace both IDE devices. One can also connect the Xbox to a VGA monitor. A converter is needed to use keyboardsmice in the controller ports, however this is fairly easy to achieve because the Xbox uses the standard USB bus.As of now only a few distributions which one is not clear of Linux will run on the 1.6 Xbox the third newest version, including 1.6b. Xboxes with modchips and the Cromwell bios installed can run more distributions than with only a softmod. This is mainly due to complications due to the new video chip used in V1.6 Xboxes that was developed exclusively by Microsoft and which has no source code available at this time, which causes major overscan on all four sides of the screen when a different kernel than the original is loaded.
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				XBMC Media Center formerly named XBox Media Center is a crossplatform free and open source software mediaplayer and entertainment hub with a 10foot user interface design for the livingroom TV. It was originally created for the firstgeneration Xbox gameconsole, but is now available for the Linux, Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger, Apple TV, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. There is also a bootable Live CD and Live USB version referred to as XBMC LiveXBMC supports most common audio, video, and image formats, playlists, audio visulizations, slideshows, weather reporting, and thirdparty plugins. It is networkcapable internet and LAN shares. Unlike commercial media center software like Windows Media Center from Microsoft, or other free media center software like MediaPortal and MythTV, XBMC Media Center has as of yet no PVR TVrecording and EPG TVGuide functionality of its own. However, it does offer the possibility to integrate such functionality through thirdparty plugins.Through its plugin system, which is based on the Python programming language, XBMC is expandable via addons that include features such as television program guides, YouTube, Hulu, Veoh, online movie trailer support, and SHOUTcastPodcast streaming. XBMC also functions as a gaming platform by allowing users to play minigames developed with Python, on any operating system. In addition, the Xbox version of XBMC contains the ability to launch console games, and homebrew applications such as emulators.XBMC as a whole is distributed under the GNU General Public License with a few libraries used by XBMC licensed under the LGPL. XBMC is not produced, endorsed, or supported by Microsoft, which means that XBMC for Xbox requires a modchip or softmod exploit, or reflashing the Xbox onboard BIOS EEPROM chip with a modified BIOS.
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				Sabayon Linux or SabayonLinux, formerly known as RR4 LinuxRR64 Linux, is a Gentoobased Linux distribution created by Fabio Erculiani.Sabayon Linux differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire system from source code, the initial install is made using packages which are precompiled and bundled with the source code. Sabayon Linux currently supports the x86 and x8664 platforms.Sabayon Linux uses the Portage system from Gentoo for package management, meaning that all updates and base characteristics are in sync with Gentoo's portage tree and other mechanisms thus a user can follow guides and articles written for Gentoo users. However, world updates are discouraged for beginners or those new to the parent distribution, as the structure is a little different and requires a slightly different method of execution. A guide has been written by a Sabayon Linux developer on how to do global updates and recompilation of all packages.The Sabayon Linux developers are currently working on an infant project called Entropy, which will take a different approach to managing packages. Among the early highlights is a binary package installer utilityscript binmerge, which shipped with the 3.3 miniEdition. binmerge sits atop Portage's native emerge utility and uses Sabayon Linux's pool of binary packages to install them. A simple binmerge applicationx instead of emerge applicationx will fetch that package from the community's repository. This would eliminate compiling entirely for those who prefer not to do so, provided their application has been compiled for the pool. The script appears to leverage several Portage features such as the BINHOST feature and a number of emerge options like getpkg and usepkgonly. The major feature is that binmerge will also be aware of dependencies, both direct and indirect, meaning complete removal of packages will no longer be a complex process for a Gentoo system.
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				Puppy Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution that is very small and focuses on ease of use. If the computer has at least 64 MB of RAM depending on the version, up to at least 256 MB of RAM, the entire operating system and all the applications will run from RAM, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts. Applications such as SeaMonkey, AbiWord, Gnumeric, and Gxinexine are included. The distribution is actively developed by Warren Willson and other active members of the community. Puppy is an independent Linux distribution i.e. not based on Debian, Fedora, SuSE, etc..Puppy Linux is a fullfledged operating system bundled with application suites covering a wide variety of tasks which can be used productively by general users. However, because Puppy is smallsized and can boot from many media, it is also useful as a rescue disk, a demonstration system, or for reviving old computers. Puppy can boot from A live USB, including USB flash drives or any other bootable USB storage device flashPuppy A live CD livePuppy, with six flavors to choose from A Zip drive or LS120240 SuperDisk zippyPuppy An internal hard disk drive hardPuppy A computer network thinPuppy An emulator emulatedpuppy A floppy boot disk that loads the rest of the operating system from a USB drive, CDROM, or internal hard drivePuppy Linux features builtin tools which can be used to create bootable USB disks, create new Puppy CDs, or remaster a new live CD with different packages.A unique feature that sets Puppy Linux apart from other Linux distributions is the ability to run a normal working environment on a writeonce multisession CD. It does not require a rewritable CD. Puppy automatically detects changes in the file system and saves them incrementally on the CD. When the CD is full, users can easily switch to a new CD while carrying over all their files and desktop environment. While other distributions offer Live CD versions of their operating systems, they do not allow programs to be permanently added nor do they allow files to be written to the CD.Puppy also features sophisticated writecaching system designed to extend the life of USB flash drives that Puppy Linux runs from.
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				NimbleX is a small Slackwarebased Linux distribution optimized to run from a CD, USB drive or a network environment. NimbleX has been praised for how fast it boots, as well as for its small disk footprint, which is considered surprising for a distribution using KDE as desktop environment. NimbleX was also remarked for its web site allows users to generate custom bootable images using just a web browser. It was also covered in mainstream Romanian press as the first Linux distribution put together by a Romanian.NimbleX boots fast, which is an important factor in user experience when running from optical media or USB drives a review of the 2007 NimbleX edition noted Expect it to boot in less than half the time that a live CD from Fedora, Ubuntu, or Knoppix takes. A more recent review of the 2008 edition also noted NimbleX's speed It's easily one of the fastest bootups I've seen in a while. I even tried to hinder or cripple it's boot time, and even on a dog slow pendrive or an old as dirt test machine, it still booted amazingly fast. The desktop and applications are also very fast.NimbleX is also a very compact distribution. A review of the 2007 edition wondered how they managed to include KDE, not to mention the other applications, having included in the size of only 200 MB a windowbased graphical user interface a slimmed down KDE to fit, the FireFox web browser, the office documents editor KOffice, a PDF reader, a media player that can play almost all the file formats without the need to install a codec, the photo editing software GIMP, antivirus and BlueTooth support integrated to name a few applications included.As of 2008, the installation process of major Linux distributions can be customized by creating custom installation disks, usually called spins, but creating a spin requires a certain amount of expertise, and creating a spin that can run form the installation media requires further customization. NimbleX makes this process userfriendly by providing a web interface for the process, which is similar to that of some embedded Linux distributions, e.g. FreeWRT.These features made the distribution popular early on To judge from its forums, NimbleX has attracted a surprisingly large number of users for such a relatively unknown distribution.
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				Elive Enlightenment live is a Linux distribution based on Debian for legacy and commodity hardware with Intel processors. Elive uses the Enlightenment X window manager instead of GNOME or KDE. Elive is a fully functional distribution with a Live CD counterpart that allows the user to sample the distribution before installing it on the system.Elive can be used like any Live CD or installed to the hard drive to access its full features. Elive utilizes UnionFS, which allows users to install software packages using Synaptic Package Manager andor APT, while the user's computer is running from the Live CD.
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				Feather Linux, created by Robert Sullivan, is a Knoppixbased operating system which fits in under 128 MB while older versions were made to fit within 64 MB. It boots from either a CD or a USB Flash Drive, into a Fluxbox desktop environment. It has a wide range of desktop and rescue software, and can load entirely into RAM if enough RAM is available or be installed to a hard drive. Feather Linux contains GTK applications, such as AbiWord and Pidgin. Feather Linux has tried to include software that people would frequently be using on their desktop.With its most recent release being on July 4, 2005, Feather Linux is now dormant.
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				Super OS formerly Super Ubuntu is a Linuxbased operating system. It is a remastered version of Ubuntu made with reconstructor. It's main goal is to provide an Out of the Box experience, containing various enhancements over Ubuntu.Features First Linux distro to include an easy way to run executable files and scripts with App Runner Multimedia support Super OS is prepackaged with support for MP3 files and videoDVDs by default, it also includes additional codecs, and VLC media player Support for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats with OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Improved Internet experience It includes an additional web browser Opera, Adobe Flash Player, more communication software aMSN and Skype Additional software It also includes, Wine, the GUI for Uncomplicated Firewall, and other software. App Runner is a script included in Super OS that allows any kind of executable or script to be launched without having to use the command line. App Runner was also subject of an article by Lifehacker, saying App Runner would come in handy and there's plenty of scripts and closedsource apps that this would be useful for.Super OS has been received mainly with positive reviews, with softpedia saying it is a distribution with super powers due to the inclusion of applications, tools and technologies that are missing from a standard Ubuntu.Super OS still with the name Super Ubuntu at the time, was also Lifehacker's featured download saying It's basically just a recompiled version of the official Ubuntu distribution, but with a whole bunch of features included that save you the time of grabbing them yourself.Super OS is also the OS that the Helios project a nonprofit organization to give away computers to children without the money to buy them preloads on most of the computers they give away.
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				CrunchBang Linux often referred to simply as ! because of its logo is a lightweight Ubuntu based Linux distribution created by Philip Newborough. It uses the Openbox window manager and is especially suitable for lowend hardware with limited resources e.g. the ASUS Eee PC.2 It is provided as an installable Live CD.CrunchBang Linux is designed to offer a good balance of speed and functionality. It has been reported to boot faster than Ubuntu by Softpedia, but also includes a larger number of applications by default than a standard Ubuntu installation. It operates better under low resources than Ubuntu and is faster than a normal Ubuntu distribution. CrunchBang Linux has been developed completely from Ubuntu sources with the exception of few packages.Unlike Ubuntu, CrunchBang includes several nonfree or patent encumbered applications and libraries such as outofthebox support for several multimedia formats including MP3, Adobe Flash as well as DVD playback. CrunchBang also replaces some applications that are included with default Ubuntu, such as Openbox Window Manager instead of the GNOME Desktop Environment ROXFiler and Thunar replaced by PCMan File Manager in CrunchBang 8.10.02 are used as file managers instead of Nautilus AbiWord and other GNOME Office components instead of OpenOffice.org Deluge BitTorrent client in place of Transmission Skype VoIP client instead of Ekiga CrunchBang also uses a different GTK theme, icon set and default wallpapers.
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				Linux4One is an Ubuntu based Linux distribution designed for the Acer Aspire One series of netbooks. The standard release uses the GNOME environment, while a lightweight version uses LXDE. CD images are provided, though the use of a Live USB stick for installation is the recommended method.Linux4One is designed to offer outofthebox functionality on machines in the Acer Aspire One series. It incorporates a customised Linux and appropriate drivers to achieve this, as well as a number of tweaks to system files to improve performance.The distribution is based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 and offers two versions. While the full version can be used on all Aspire One models, the light version is offered to give better performance on machines with fewer resources, particularly the A110.
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				Fedora is an RPMbased, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the communitysupported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software.One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain software distributed under a free software  open source license, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora"this ensures that updates are available to all Linux distributions.Fedora has a comparatively short life cycle version X is maintained until one month after version X2 is released. With 6 months between releases, the maintenance period is about 13 months for each version.Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became accustomed to the operating system and continues to use it.
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				OpenGEU is a free computer operating system based upon the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, which in turn is based on Debian.OpenGEU's aim is to successfully combine the power and ease of use of GNOME desktop environment with the lightweight, speedy, and graphical eyecandy features of the Enlightenment window manager into a unique and userfriendly desktop. While OpenGEU is originally derived from Ubuntu, the design of the user interface makes it appear significantly different to the user. OpenGEU's developers continue to create their own set of original art themes, software, and tools.The current version of OpenGEU, based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, is called OpenGEU 8.10 Luna Serena.
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				Kuki Linux pronounced cookie is a lightweight Ubuntubased Linux distribution built to be a replacement for the Linpus Linux Lite distribution on the Acer Aspire One. Kuki's goals include working out of the box, fast boot time, low usage of SSDHDD space, and inclusion of lightweight and functional programs for most daily tasks.Kuki has several patches and fixes optimized for the Aspire One hardware, and the Kuki Linux kernel includes only the packages required for the Acer Aspire One. Kuki uses the Xfce window manager.Kuki Linux is available for download in the form of ISO images, which can be used to create Live CDs or Live USBs. The latter can be created using UNetbootin.
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				Moblin, short for mobile Linux, is an open source project focused on developing software for Mobile Internet Devices MIDs and other new categories of devices such as netbooks and nettops. Built around the Intel Atom processor, current builds are designed to minimize boot times and power consumption to create a netbook and MIDcentric operating system. Commercial products built around Moblin 2 include a Foxconn netbook and an InvenTech smartphone, both announced at Computex 2009. Acer has also announced the replacement of Linpus Linux with Moblin on their Acer Aspire netbooks.Intel launched the Moblin.org site in July 2007 and significantly updated the site in April 2008 with the launch of the Intel Atom processor family at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. A custom SDK is also available on the site. The Moblin 2 OS was specifically designed to run on an Intel Atom processor in a netbook. In April 2009 Intel turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation. Development is now overseen by the Moblin Steering Committee, currently consisting of Imad Sousou, Arjan van de Ven, Matthew Allum, and Rusty Lynch. Barring Matthew Allum, founder of Intel's recently acquired OpenedHand, all committee members are Intel employees.Major Components Moblin Image Creator MIC allows developers to create a custom Linux file system for a device. Using MIC, a platform developer can choose which components from Moblin they want on their device, build the target file system, copy all the necessary files to a USB mass storage device and load the resulting files onto the target. Kernel platformspecific patches to the Linux kernel and various other device drivers. UI Framework screen interface and its underlying GTKbased framework, which uses the Hildon application framework. Power Management Policy extending and enhancing existing Linux power management capabilities Browser the Moblin browser is fullfeatured web browser based on Mozilla technologies with a fingerdriven UI and MID UI integration. The Moblin browser supports key plugins like Adobe Flash. Multimedia audio and video playback and photo viewing including Helix or GStreamer multimedia frameworks with UPNP support through the GUPnP library. Linux Connection Manager Internet connections that can be extended through plugins to support various wired or wireless technologies.
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				Easy Peasy formerly Ubuntu Eee is an operating system for netbooks.Easy Peasy is a project to create a linux distribution for netbooks, based on Ubuntu. Easy Peasy favors well known closed source software instead of open source alternatives e.g. Skype instead of Ekiga when the functionality offered seems better.Features Uses the latest Ubuntu release as a base Strives to support all netbooks Preinstalls some widely used applications and codecs like Adobe Flash and MP3 support Favors well known closed source software when the functionality offered seems better Strives to deliver netbook functionality like the Social Desktop and automatic file synchronization
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				Eeebuntu not to be confused with Easy Peasy, formerly know as Ubuntu Eee is an operating system for netbooks based on Ubuntu. Eeebuntu had been downloaded around 300,000 times since its 2.0 release to date.Works out of the box on ASUS Eee PC 700, 701, 900, 900A, 901, 904HD, 1000, 1000H, 1000HA, 1000HD and 1000HE. Recent versions also work out of the box on the Acer Aspire One A110L.Can create a bootable USB stick or SD card using UNetbootin.Three versions are available for install Standard, NBR standard with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and Base.Integrates the eeepctray ACPI utility to control ACPI events and toggle certain devices on the Eee onoff.
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				Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition is an Ubuntu distribution planned to run on the Intel Mobile Internet Device platform, which will be x86 mobile computers based on the Intel Atom processor.It will use the GNOME framework Hildon as the basis for its GUI.Equipment producers will be able to customize their distributions, including options such as Flash, Java, or custom interfaces.According to Canonical, it will provide an uncompromised Web 2.0 experience Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, datescalendar, simple software updates Ubuntu Mobile Edition will be usable with only a touchscreen and a finger. No keyboard or stylus will be required.Ubuntu Netbook Remix is based on Ubuntu Mobile Edition and is designed specifically for netbooks.
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				Ubuntu Netbook Remix UNR is a 'remix' of the standard Ubuntu Desktop release to enable it to work better on netbooks or devices with small screens and is optimized for use with the Intel Atom processor. The packages that make up UNR will work on the respective 8.04 Hardy Heron, 8.10 Intrepid Ibex or 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope installation. Canonical, the company that is behind Ubuntu, is collaborating with Moblin project to ensure optimization for lower hardware requirements and higher battery life. UNR runs on popular models such as the Acer Aspire One and the ASUS Eee PC.Ubuntu Netbook Remix is distributed by Flash image files, called IMGs. To install UNR you need to download the .IMG file then write the IMG file to a USB Flash Drive.Packages That Make Up UNRgohomeapplet a supercharged 'showdesktop' applet which, in addition to showing the desktop, allows users to draganddrop filesfoldersurls on to it, to create new favorite items in the launcher.windowpickerapplet a spaceconservative windowpicker applet, which allows switching and closing windows from the panel.maximus a windowmanagement daemon makes sure windows are maximized etchumannetbooktheme Human with panel themeingumelauncher the desktoplauncher which takes the place of Nautilus file manager. Replicates the functionality of ApplicationsPlacesSystem, with added support for a userdefined favorites category.desktopswitcher Allows easy desktopmode switching between Netbook mode and Classic mode Ubuntu 8.04 default setup
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				Edubuntu, also known as Ubuntu Education Edition, is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system designed for use in classrooms and schools.Edubuntu has been developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists in multiple countries. Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base, incorporates the LTSP thin client architecture and several educationspecific applications, and is aimed at users aged 6 to 18.The primary goal of Edubuntu is to enable an educator with limited technical knowledge and skills to set up a computer lab or an online learning environment in an hour or less and then effectively administer that environment.The principal design goals of Edubuntu are centralized management of configuration, users and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally important is the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education.It also aims to allow resourcepoor environments to maximize their available older equipment.Included with Edubuntu is the Linux Terminal Server Project, a large number of educational applications including GCompris, KDE Edutainment Suite, and Schooltool Calendar. The first Edubuntu release coincided with the release of Ubuntu 5.10, which was codenamed Breezy Badger on 20051013. Edubuntu CDs were previously available for free through their Shipit service. However, as of version 8.10, it is only available as a download.Edubuntu's default GUI is GNOME, but starting with release 7.10, KDE is also available as Edubuntu KDE.
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				Compiz is one of the first compositing window managers for the X Window System that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. The effects, such as a minimization effect and a cube workspace are implemented as loadable plugins. Because it conforms to the InterClient Communication Conventions Manual standard, Compiz can substitute for the default Metacity in GNOME or KWin in KDE.Some of its features mimic those of competitors, such as Expose in Apple's Mac OS X and an AltTab applicationswitcher that uses live previews, instead of just icons. The Composite extension to X is used, as is the OpenGL extension GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap. The first version of Compiz was released as free software by Novell SUSE in January 2006 in the wake of the also new Xgl.
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				In Unix computing, Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System.Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey application.Blackbox is written in C and contains completely original code. It was created by Bradley T. Hughes and is available under the MIT License.
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				In Unix computing, Fluxbox is an X window manager based on Blackbox 0.61.1. It aims to be lightweight and customizable, and has minimal support for graphical icons. Its user interface has only a taskbar and a menu that is accessible by rightclicking on the desktop. All basic configurations are controlled by text files, including the construction of menus and the mapping of keybindings.Fluxbox can show some eye candy colors, gradients, borders, and several other basic appearance attributes can be specified. Recent versions support rounded corners and graphical elements. Effects managers such as Xcompmgr and transsetdf can add true transparency to desktop elements and windows. Enhancements can also be provided by using iDesk or fbdesk, or the ROX Desktop. Fluxbox also has several features Blackbox lacks, including tabbed windows and a configurable titlebar.Because of its small memory footprint and quick loading time, Fluxbox is popular in many Live CDs such as Knoppix STD and GParted. It was the default window manager of Damn Small Linux, but was replaced with JWM since the release of Damn Small Linux 4.0. It is currently the default window manager of antiX, a distribution based on MEPIS and designed for old computers, PCFluxboxOS, a remaster of PCLinuxOS, and LinguasOS, a Live CD distribution for professional translators. Fluxbuntu, Ubuntu with Fluxbox and lightweight applications, was released in October 2007.
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				Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone or in conjunction with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE. Enlightenment is often used as a substitute for a full desktop environment.The first version of Enlightenment was released by Rasterman Carsten Haitzler on 19961030.Enlightenment has been under development for over a decade its latest stable release is version 0.16.8.15.Version 0.17, also referred to as DR17 or E17, has been in development since December 2000. It is a complete rewrite on DR16 and was designed to be a fullfledged desktop shell, based on the new Enlightenment Foundation Libraries EFL.
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				Xfce pronounced as if it were an acronym is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unixlike platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.The current version, 4.6, is modular and reusable. It consists of separately packaged components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment, but which can be selected in subsets to create the user's preferred personal working environment. Xfce is mainly used for its ability to run a modern desktop environment on relatively modest hardware.It is based on the GTK 2 toolkit the same as GNOME. It uses the Xfwm window manager, described below. Its configuration is entirely mousedriven, and the configuration files are hidden from the casual user.Olivier Fourdan started the project in 1996. The name "Xfce" originally stood for "XForms Common Environment", but since that time Xfce has been rewritten twice and no longer uses that toolkit. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as "XFce", but rather as "Xfce". The developers' current stance is that the initialism no longer stands for anything specific.
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				KDE K Desktop Environment is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment for Unixlike systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write standalone applications for the system. In this regard, the KDE project serves as an umbrella project for many standalone applications and smaller projects that are based on KDE technology. These include KOffice, KDevelop, Amarok, K3b and many others. KDE software is based on the Qt toolkit. The original GPL version of this toolkit only existed for the X11 platform, but with the release of Qt 4, GPL versions are available for all platforms. This allows KDE software based on Qt 4 to also be distributed to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.KDE was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was then a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen. At the time, he was troubled by certain aspects of the Unix desktop. Among his qualms was that none of the applications looked, felt, or worked alike. He proposed the formation of not only a set of applications, but rather a desktop environment, in which users could expect things to look, feel, and work consistently. He also wanted to make this desktop easy to use one of his complaints with desktop applications of the time was that his girlfriend could not use them. His initial Usenet post spurred a lot of interest, and the KDE project was born.The name KDE was intended as a word play on the existing Common Desktop Environment, available for Unix systems. CDE was an X11based user environment jointly developed by HP, IBM, and Sun, through the XOpen Company, with an interface and productivity tools based on the Motif graphical widget toolkit. It was supposed to be an intuitively easytouse desktop computer environment. The K was originally suggested to stand for "Kool", but it was quickly decided that the K should stand for nothing in particular. Additionally, one of the tips in certain versions of KDE 3 incorrectly states that the K currently is just meant to be the letter before L in the Latin alphabet, the first letter in the word Linux which is where KDE is usually run.Matthias Ettrich chose to use the Qt toolkit for the KDE project. Other programmers quickly started developing KDEQt applications, and by early 1997, a few applications were being released.
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				GNOME is a desktop environment the graphical user interface which runs on top of a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. It is an international project that includes creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.GNOME is part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unixlike operating systems, most notably those built on top of the Linux kernel and the GNU system, and as part of Java Desktop System in Solaris.The name originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment.The GNOME project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability, and making things "just work". The other aims of the project are Freedom to create a desktop environment that will always have the source code available for reuse under a free software license. Accessibility  ensuring the desktop can be used by anyone, regardless of technical skill or physical disability. Internationalization and localization  making the desktop available in many languages. At the moment GNOME is being translated to over 100 languages. Developer "friendliness" ensuring it is easy to write software that integrates smoothly with the desktop, and allow developers a free choice of programming language. Organization  a regular release cycle and a disciplined community structure. Support  ensuring backing from other institutions beyond the GNOME community.In 1996, the KDE project was started. KDE was free software from the start, but members of the GNU project were concerned with KDE's dependence on the then nonfree Qt widget toolkit. In August 1997, two projects were started in response to this issue the Harmony toolkit a free replacement for the Qt libraries and GNOME a different desktop not using Qt, but built entirely on top of free software. The initial project leaders for GNOME were Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena.In place of the Qt toolkit, GTK was chosen as the base of the GNOME desktop. GTK uses the GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL, a free software license that allows GPLincompatible software including proprietary software to link to it. The GNOME desktop itself is licensed under the LGPL for its libraries, and the GPL for applications that are part of the GNOME project. Having the toolkit and libraries under the LGPL allowed applications written for GNOME to use a much wider set of licenses including proprietary software licenses.In 1998, Qt became open source. While Qt was duallicensed under both the QPL and the GPL, the freedom to link proprietary software with GTK at no charge made it differ from Qt. With Qt licensed under the GPL, the Harmony Project stopped its efforts at the end of 2000, as KDE did not depend on nonfree software anymore. In contrast, as of 2009, the development of GNOME has not stopped.In March 2009, Qt 4.5 was released, adding another licensing option, the LGPL.
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				ReactOS is a computer operating system intended to be binary compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows NT versions 5.x and up Windows 2000 and its successors. It is claimed to be composed entirely of free software, by means of a complete clean room reverse engineering process, with an extensive ongoing audit, being undertaken to protect against claims made by those outside the project.Although the project is in the alpha development stage as of 2009, many Windows programs already work well. While the ReactOS kernel has been written from scratch, the userland is partially based on the Wine compatibility layer for Unixlike operating systems.ReactOS is primarily written in the C programming language, with some elements, such as ReactOS Explorer, written in C. Various components of ReactOS are licensed under the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License and the BSD License.
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				ArcheOS is the acronym of Archeological Operating System. It is a GNULinux live distribution built for archaeological aims and based on Kubuntu v. 7.10. Here you can download the .iso image. To run ArcheOS, you have to burn a DVD with the .iso image and put it inside your DVD reader. Then restart the computer. It is also possible to install ArcheOs on your hardisk click on the install ArcheOS icon. ArcheOS is developed following the OpArc project guidelines and it is released by ArcTeam s.n.c. under the General Public License GPL.
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				BackTrack is a Linux distribution distributed as a Live CD which resulted from the merger of WHAX and the Auditor Security Collection, which is used for Penetration testing. It allows the user to include customizable scripts, additional tools and configurable kernels in personalized distributions. The BackTrack project was created by Mati Aharoni and Max Moser and is a collaborative effort involving the community.BackTrack 2 was released on March 6, 2007 and includes over 300 security tools. A beta version of BackTrack 3 was released on December 14, 2007, but it was announced that its main focus was to support more and newer hardware as well as provide more flexibility and modularity.BackTrack 3 was released on June 19, 2008. New additions include SAINT and Maltego. Nessus was not included in this release, and the developers decided not to upgrade from kernel version 2.6.21.5.BackTrack 4 Beta was released on February 11, 2009, with the biggest change being the move to a Debianbased distribution.
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				CentOS is a communitysupported, freelyavailable operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100 binary compatibility with its upstream distribution. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial product, available only through a subscription service that provides access to software updates and varying levels of technical support. The product is largely composed of software packages distributed under open source licenses, and the source code for those packages is made public by Red Hat.CentOS developers use Red Hat's source code to create a final product very similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat's branding and logos must be changed, because Red Hat does not allow them to be used for redistribution. Also, nonfree software is either removed or replaced. For example, stock versions of yum have always been the preferred means to manage software packages in CentOS. Red Hat includes proprietary software to access the Red Hat Network up2date in older versions, yum with custom plugins in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for managing software installation.CentOS is available free of charge. Technical support is primarily provided by the community via official mailing lists, web forums, and chat rooms. The project is not affiliated with Red Hat and thus receives no financial or logistical support from the company. Instead, the CentOS Project relies on donations from users and organizational sponsors.
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				Damn Small Linux or DSL is a computer operating system for the x86 family of personal computers. It is Free software under the terms of its main license the GNU GPL. It was designed to run graphical applications on older PC hardware for example, machines with 486early Pentium processors and very little memory. DSL is a Live CD with a size of 50 MB. What originally started as an experiment to see how much software could fit in 50 MB eventually became a fullfledged Linux distribution. It can be installed on storage media with small capacities, like bootable business cards, USB flash drives, various memory cards, and Zip drives.DSL was originally conceived and maintained by John Andrews. The community now includes Robert Shingledecker, who created the MyDSL system, DSL Control Panel, and other features.DSL was originally based on ModelK, a 22 MB strippeddown version of Knoppix, but soon after was based on Knoppix proper, allowing much easier remastering and improvements.
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				Debian is a computer operating system composed of free and open source software. The primary form, Debian GNULinux, is a popular and influential Linux distribution. It is distributed with access to repositories containing thousands of software packages ready for installation and use. These packages are distributed under free software  open source licenses. Debian is known for strict adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies as well as using collaborative software development and testing processes. Debian can be used as a desktop as well as server operating system.The Debian Project is governed by the Debian Constitution and the Social Contract which set out the governance structure of the project as well as explicitly stating that the goal of the project is the development of a free operating system. Debian is developed by over one thousand volunteers from around the world and supported by donations through several nonprofit organizations around the world, with SPI, an umbrella organization for various free software projects, being the most important.Thus, the Debian Project is an independent decentralized organization it is not backed by a company like other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and Mandriva. The cost of developing Debian 4.0 etch, assuming paid programmers from a single organization and based on source lines of code, has been estimated to be close to US13,000,000,000. As of April 2, 2009, Ohloh estimates that the Debian GNULinux project, assuming a 55,000 average salary, would cost 819,274,547 to redevelop from scratch.Many distributions are based on Debian, including Ubuntu, MEPIS, Dreamlinux, Damn Small Linux, Xandros, Knoppix, BackTrackas of Backtrack 4, Linspire, sidux, Kanotix, Parsix and LinEx, among others.Debian is also known for an abundance of options. The current stable release includes over twenty five thousand software packages for twelve computer architectures. These architectures range from the IntelAMD 32bit64bit architectures commonly found in personal computers to the ARM architecture commonly found in embedded systems and the IBM eServer zSeries mainframes. Prominent features of Debian are the APT package management system, repositories with large numbers of packages, strict policies regarding packages, and the high quality of releases. These practices allow easy upgrades between releases as well as automated installation and removal of packages.The Debian standard install makes use of the GNOME desktop environment. It includes popular programs such as OpenOffice.org, Iceweasel a rebranding of Firefox, Evolution mail, CDDVD writing programs, music and video players, image viewers and editors, and PDF viewers. There are prebuilt CD images for KDE, Xfce and LXDE as well. The remaining discs, which span five DVDs or over thirty CDs, contain all packages currently available and are not necessary for a standard install. Another install method is via a net install CD which is much smaller than a normal install CDDVD. It contains only the bare essentials needed to start the installer and downloads the packages selected during installation via APT. These CDDVD images can be freely obtained by web download, BitTorrent, jigdo or buying them from online retailers.
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				DesktopBSD is a UNIXderivative, desktoporiented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal is to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the easeofuse of KDE, which is the default graphical user interface. It is available for the IA32 also known as 32bit x86 and AMD64 platforms.DesktopBSD is essentially a customized installation of FreeBSD and is not a fork of FreeBSD. DesktopBSD is always based on FreeBSD's latest stable branch but incorporates certain customized, preinstalled software such as KDE and DesktopBSD utilities and configuration files.A common misconception about DesktopBSD is that it is intended as a rival to PCBSD as a BSDbased desktop distribution, since they are similar in structure and goals. However, the DesktopBSD project was started approximately one year before the PCBSD project, despite the fact that the first PCBSD release came out before DesktopBSD's. Neither the DesktopBSD nor PCBSD projects intend to rival each other and are completely independent projects with distinctive features and intended outcomes e.g. DesktopBSD uses ports and packages for additional software installation, whereas PCBSD introduced PBIs.
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				Fluxbuntu is a lightweight operating system Linux distribution which uses the Fluxbox window manager and is based on Ubuntu. By contrast, Ubuntu uses the GNOME desktop environment, Kubuntu uses KDE, and Xubuntu uses Xfce, all of which are somewhat more demanding of computer memory and resources. Fluxbuntu is designed to be versatile, while minimizing the need of system resources and can run on a system with only a 300 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM. The Fluxbuntu project is still being developed, according to the Fluxbuntu website. The last version release was in October 2007.
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				FreeBSD is a Unixlike free operating system descended from ATT UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution BSD branch through the 386BSD and 4.4BSD operating systems. It runs on Intel x86 family IA32 IBM PC compatible computers, Sun UltraSPARC, IA64, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM and NEC PC9801 architectures along with Microsoft's Xbox. Support for other architectures is in varying stages of development. The DEC Alpha architecture was previously supported between releases 4.0 and 7.0, with the code being removed for FreeBSD 7.0. FreeBSD currently has more than 200 active developers and thousands of contributors.FreeBSD has been characterized as "the unknown giant among free operating systems." It is not a clone of UNIX, but works like UNIX, with UNIXcompliant internals and system APIs. FreeBSD is generally regarded as reliable and robust.FreeBSD is developed as a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers and all of the userland utilities, such as the shell, are held in the same source code revision tracking tree, whereas with Linux distributions, the kernel, userland utilities and applications are developed separately, then packaged together in various ways by others.
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				GeeXboX is a free Linux distribution providing a media center software suite for personal computers. GeeXboX uses MPlayer for media playback and is implemented as a Live CD. As such, the system does not need to be permanently installed to a hard drive, as most modern operating systems would. Instead, the computer can be booted with the GeeXboX CD when media playback is desired. This is a reasonable approach for those who do not need media playback services while performing other tasks with the same computer, for users who wish to repurpose older computers as media centers, and for those seeking a free alternative to Windows XP Media Center Edition. An unofficial port of GeeXboX also runs on the Wii.GeeXboX comes with a utility called generator, which allows the user to customize the GeeXboX discs. The following options are configurable Include your movies. Add nonfree extra codecs. Add nonfree firmwares for your drivers. Add extra fonts for Asian users. Add extra themes. Configure the network settings. Configure audio related options. Configure video related options. Configure the remote control and receiver to be used. Configure an LCD display. Change theme, fonts and charset encoding. Choose the services to be started with GeeXboX like UPnP and SHOUTcast. Modify MPlayer's startup options.
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				Knoppix is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD  DVD, one of the first of its kind for any operating system. Knoppix was developed by Linux consultant Klaus Knopper. When starting a program it is loaded from the optical disc and decompressed into a RAM drive. The decompression is transparent and onthefly.Although Knoppix is primarily designed to be used as a Live CD, it can also be installed on a hard disk like a typical operating system. Computers that support booting from USB devices can load Knoppix from a live USB flash drive or memory card.There are two main editions of Knoppix the traditional Compact Disc 700 megabytes edition and the DVD 4.7 gigabytes "Maxi" edition. Each of these main editions has two languagespecific editions English and German.Knoppix mostly consists of free software, but also includes proprietary software.
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				Kubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system using the KDE graphical environment instead of GNOME. It is part of the Ubuntu project and uses the same underlying system. It is possible to run both the KDE desktop kubuntudesktop as well as the Gnome desktop ubuntudesktop interchangeably on the same machine. Every package in Kubuntu shares the same repositories as Ubuntu. Kubuntu CDs can be ordered through the Shipit service. It is released regularly and predictably on the same schedule as Ubuntu.
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				MidnightBSD is a free Unixlike, desktoporiented operating system based on FreeBSD 6.1. It borrows a lot from the NEXTSTEP graphical user interface.MidnightBSD began as a fork from FreeBSD in 2005. The founder of the project, Lucas Holt, wished to create a BSD derived desktop operating system. He was familiar with several live CD projects, but not the work on PCBSD or DesktopBSD. At the same time, he also had an interest in GNUstep. The two ideas were folded into a plan to create a user friendly desktop environment. MidnightBSD 0.1 was released based on the efforts of Lucas Holt, Caryn Holt, D. Adam Karim, Phil Pereira of bsdnexus, and Christian Reinhardt. This release features a modified version of the FreeBSD ports system. The ports system evolved into "mports" which includes fake support, generation of packages before installation, license tagging, and strict rules about package list generation and modification of files outside the destination. Many of these features were introduced in MidnightBSD 0.1.1.Christian Reinhardt replaced Phil Pereira as the lead "mports" maintainer prior to the release of MidnightBSD 0.1. D. Adam Karim acted as the security officer for the first release. All release engineering is handled by Lucas Holt.0.2 introduced a refined mports system with over 2000 packages. The Portable C Compiler was added on i386 in addition to the GNU Compiler Collection. Other changes include enabling ipfw and sound card detection on startup, newer versions of many software packages including Bind, GCC, OpenSSH, and Sendmail, as well as a Live CD creation system.
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				Musix GNULinux is a Live CD and Live DVD operating system for the x86 processor family based on Debian. It contains a collection of software for audio production, graphic design, video editing and general purpose applications. The initiator and codirector of the project is Marcos German Guglielmetti.Musix GNULinux is one of the few Linux distributions recognized by the Free Software Foundation as not being primarily distributed on distribution sites distributing nonfree software and not including any nonfree information for practical use.Musix is developed by a team from Argentina, Spain and Brazil. The main language used in development discussion and documentation is Spanish however, Musix has a community of users in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
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				Mythbuntu is an media center operating system OS. As the name references, it is based on the Ubuntu OS and integrates the MythTV Media center software as its main function, and does not contain most of preinstalled software of the original Ubuntu OS.Following the principles of KnoppMyth and Mythdora, Mythbuntu is designed to simplify the installation of MythTV on a home theater PC. After Mythbuntu has been installed the MythTV setup program begins in which it can be configured as a frontend a media viewer, backend a media server, or combination of the two.TV tuner setup in MythTV is still mostly a manual and commandline driven procedure.Mythbuntu aims to keep close ties with Ubuntu thus allowing changes to be moved upstream for the greater benefit of the Ubuntu Community. Due to the close link with Ubuntu, easy conversions between desktop and standalone Mythbuntu installations are possible. The development cycle of Mythbuntu closely follows that of Ubuntu, releases occurring every six months, approximately two weeks after Ubuntu releases.
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				NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unixderivative Berkeley Software Distribution BSD computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. Noted for its portability and quality of design and implementation, it is often used in embedded systems and as a starting point for the porting of other operating systems to new computer architectures.
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				nUbuntu or Network Ubuntu is a project to take the existing Ubuntu operating system LiveCD and Full Installer and remaster it with tools needed for penetration testing servers and networks. The main idea is to keep Ubuntu's ease of use and mix it with popular penetration testing tools. Besides usage for network and server testing, nUbuntu will be made to be a desktop distribution for advanced Linux users.
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				OpenBSD is a Unixlike computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution BSD, a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995. The project is widely known for the developers' insistence on open source code and quality documentation, uncompromising position on software licensing, and focus on security and code correctness. The project is coordinated from de Raadt's home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Its logo and mascot is a pufferfish named Puffy.OpenBSD includes a number of security features absent or optional in other operating systems and has a tradition of developers auditing the source code for software bugs and security problems. The project maintains strict policies on licensing and prefers the open source BSD licence and its variantsin the past this has led to a comprehensive licence audit and moves to remove or replace code under licences found less acceptable.As with most other BSDbased operating systems, the OpenBSD kernel and userland programs, such as the shell and common tools like cat and ps, are developed together in a single source repository. Thirdparty software is available as binary packages or may be built from source using the ports tree.The OpenBSD project maintains ports for 17 different hardware platforms, including the DEC Alpha, Intel i386, HewlettPackard PARISC, AMD AMD64 and Motorola 68000 processors, Apple's PowerPC machines, Sun SPARC and SPARC64based computers, the VAX and the Sharp Zaurus.
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				OpenSolaris is an open source operating system based on Sun Microsystems' Solaris. It is also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around it.OpenSolaris is derived from the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, with significant modifications made by Sun since it bought the rights to that code in 1994. It is the only open source System V derivative available. Open sourced components are snapshots of the latest Solaris release under development. Sun has announced that future versions of its commercial Solaris operating system will be based on technology from the OpenSolaris project.
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				openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the communitysupported openSUSE Project and sponsored by Novell. After acquiring SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100 open source project, involving the community in the development process.The initial release of the community project was a beta version of SUSE Linux 10.0, and as of December 2008 the current stable release is openSUSE 11.1.openSUSE is driven by the openSUSE Project community and sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux distributions components. It is the equivalent of the historic "SuSE Linux Professional". After their acquisition of SUSE Linux, Novell has decided to make the community an important part of their development process.Beyond the distribution, the openSUSE Project provides a web portal for community involvement. The community assists in developing openSUSE collaboratively with representatives from Novell by contributing code through the openSUSE Build Service, writing documentation, designing artwork, fostering discussion on open mailing lists and in Internet Relay Chat channels, and improving the openSUSE site through its wiki interface. Novell markets openSUSE as the best, easiest distribution for all users.Like most distributions, openSUSE includes both a default graphical user interface GUI and a command line interface option. During installation, the user may choose among KDE, GNOME and Xfce GUIs. openSUSE supports thousands of software packages across the full range of Free software  open source development.
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				PCLinuxOS, often abbreviated as PCLOS, is a desktop operating system. It is a free operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use.The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux now Mandriva Linux. These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a packager better known as Texstar. From the year 2000 to 2003, Texstar maintained his repository of RPM packages in parallel with the PCLinuxOnline Web site. In an interview, Reynolds said he started PCLinuxOS "to provide an outlet for his crazy desire to package source code without having to deal with egos, arrogance and politics."In 2003 Texstar created a fork of Mandrake Linux 9.2 which was released in October 2003. Working closely with The Live CD Project, Texstar has since developed that fork independently into a fullfledged distribution. The initial releases were successively numbered as "previews" i.e. p5, p7, p8 up to p81a, then p9, p91, p92, and p93.With the advent of PCLinuxOS 2007, PCLinuxOS rebased on Mandriva Linux 2007. This implied a shift to a more modern code which will require a complete reinstall to this version. The new version featured a new look, and builtin 3D effects. A new logo has also been designed for the new version, and is incorporated in the boot screen. A new login screen was designed, entitled "Dark". PCLinuxOS 2007 final version was released on 20070521.
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				Pentoo is a Linux Live CD designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo and Enlightenment, Pentoo includes Nessus and Metasploit for penetration testing and security assessment. Pentoo can boot off a CD or USB flash drive and is optimized for Pentium III architecture. Pentoo supports package modularity in the same fashion that Slax does.
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				Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 7 years after its release. All of Red Hat's official support, all of Red Hat's training and the Red Hat Certification Program center is on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is often abbreviated to RHEL, even though Red Hat is now attempting to discourage this.New versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are released every 18 to 24 months. When Red Hat releases a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers may upgrade to the new version at no additional charge as long as they are in possession of a current subscription i.e. the subscription term has not yet lapsed.Red Hat's first Enterprise offering Red Hat Linux 6.2E essentially consisted of a version of Red Hat Linux 6.2 with different support levels, and without separate engineering.The first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to bear the name originally came onto the market as "Red Hat Linux Advanced Server". In 2003 Red Hat rebranded Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS", and added two more variants, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS.Verbatim copying and redistribution of the entire Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is not permitted due to trademark restrictions. However, there are several redistributions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux minus trademarked features such as logos and the name.
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				Slackintosh is a port of Slackware to the "NewWorld" Macintosh's PowerPC architecture.
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				Slax is a Linux Live CD operating system based on Slackware. It does not need to be installed on a computer system's hard drive it boots and runs from either a CD or USB drive. There is also an option to run Slax from RAM. SLAX was developed by Tomas Matejicek in Czech republic using the Linux Live scripts.
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				Solaris is a UNIXbased operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS.Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS. Solaris supports SPARCbased and x86based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.Solaris is certified against the Single Unix Specification. Although it was historically developed as proprietary software, it is supported on systems manufactured by all major server vendors, and the majority of its codebase is now open source software via the OpenSolaris project.
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				Trinity Rescue Kit also known as TRK is a free Live CD Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux, aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and disk cloning. Trinity Rescue Kit is bootable from a CD, USB media or a network using PXE. Documentation for TRK exists both on the website, as well as in the console by using the command "trkhelp l t". Trinity Rescue Kit omits the standard Linux manual command in order to conserve space. In addition, there are tools to migrate TRK from an ISO image to a bootable USB device and vice versa.Trinity Rescue Kit has a graphical startup menu based on SYSLINUX and vesamenu32 which is used to select boot options.
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				TrueBSD is a LiveDVD operating system based on FreeBSD httpwww.freebsd.org with many useful applications. All open programs will keep working even when you eject LiveDVD using command cdcontrol eject in order to get some data from your own CDs. Just don't forget to insert the LiveDVD again before starting any other programs.TrueBSD is distributed under BSD license, but some of the included software can be covered by some other license.
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				Turbolinux is a Japanese Linux distribution targeting Asian users.
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				Ubuntu Rescue Remix is a GNULinux live system which runs from CD or USB flash device. It provides the data recovery specialist with a commandline interface environment equipped with the best freelibre, open source data recovery and forensics tools available.
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				Ubuntu Studio is an officially recognized derivative of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production. The original version, based on Ubuntu 7.04, was released on May 10, 2007.
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				Vine Linux is a Japanese Linux distribution sponsored by VineCaves. It is a fork of Red Hat Linux 7.2 since Vine Linux 3.0.
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				Xubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system, using the Xfce desktop environment.Because the Xfce desktop environment uses fewer system resources, Xubuntu is often used on older computers, systems with limited resources, laptops, netbooks and highefficiency workstations.
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				Xandros is both the name of a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop is a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros. Founded in May 2001 by Linux Global Partners, the company is headquartered in New York City.Their distributions are based on Corel Linux, a Debianbased distribution which was acquired along with the development team behind the product from Corel Corporation in August 2001 after Corel decided to leave the Linux distribution market. Xandros is a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium and member of the Interop Vendor Alliance.In July 2007, Xandros bought Scalix, a Linuxbased email and collaboration product, based on HP OpenMail. In July 2008, Xandros acquired Linspire.
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				Yellow Dog Linux, also YDL, is a freesoftware, opensource operating system for Power Architecture computers. Developed by Fixstars formerly known as Terra Soft, Yellow Dog Linux was first released in 1999 for the Apple Macintosh. The most recent version, version 6.1 was released on 19 November 2008 to members only and a month later to everyone.
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				Gentoo is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free software. Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration. There are normally no precompiled binaries for software, continuing the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some software packages are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures. The development project and its products are named after the Gentoo penguin. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user's machine. Gentoo describes itself as a metadistribution, "because of its nearunlimited adaptability".
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				Fedora is an RPMbased, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the communitysupported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain software distributed under a free software  open source license, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedorathis ensures that updates are available to all Linux distributions.Fedora has a comparatively short life cycle version X is maintained until one month after version X2 is released. With 6 months between releases, the maintenance period is about 13 months for each version.Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became accustomed to the operating system and continues to use it.
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				Linux Mint is an operating system for personal computers. While Mint is mostly based on and compatible with Ubuntu, the design of the user interface differs. Design differences include A distinct user interface, including a simplified bootloader, desktop layout, theme, and the custom Mint menu. A strong focus on full functionality out of the box E.g. Wireless drivers included, plugins required to play common media formats installed by default, screen resolution automatically set, etc.. Linux Mint 6 also includes or features a free Flash player so users can view sites such as YouTube without having to install anything else. The Mint Tools, a collection of system tools designed to make system management and administration easier for end users.Linux Mint is available for download in the form of ISO images, which can be used to create Live CDs or Live USBs. The latter can be created either manually or using UNetbootin.
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				Slackware is a free operating system. It is one of the earliest Linux distributions and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993. The current stable version is 12.2, released on December 10, 2008.Slackware aims for design stability and simplicity, and to be the most "Unixlike" Linux distribution, using plain text files for configuration and making as few modifications to software packages as possible from upstream.2
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				Ubuntu is a free Debianderived computer operating system based on GNULinux. Ubuntu's goals include providing an uptodate, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and easeofinstallation. Ubuntu has been selected by readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop, claiming approximately 30 of their desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007.Ubuntu is composed of multiple software packages distributed under freeopen source licenses, especially the GNU General Public License GNU GPL so that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, develop and improve the software. Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Instead of selling Ubuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technical support and from creating several proprietary services tied to Ubuntu including Ubuntu One, Landscape and Launchpad. Canonical is yet to turn profitable however. By keeping Ubuntu distribution itself free software and open source, Canonical is able to take advantage of the talents of outside developers in Ubuntu's constituent components without developing the entire operating system itself which is based primarily on current Linux kernels.Canonical endorses and provides support for four additional Ubuntulike operating systems Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu a subproject and addon for Ubuntu, designed for school environments and home users, and Ubuntu JeOS pronounced "Juice", a strippeddown version of Ubuntu optimized for virtual appliances.Canonical releases new versions of Ubuntu every six months and supports Ubuntu for eighteen months by providing security fixes, patches to critical bugs and minor updates to programs. LTS Long Term Support versions, which are released every two years, are supported for three years on the desktop and five years for servers.
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