Distribution list:
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Home page |
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Ubuntu Linux |
http://www.ubuntu.com |
82035x |
Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.
Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.
New desktop and server release every six months. That means you'll always have the latest and greatest applications that the open source world has to offer.
Ubuntu is designed with security in mind. You get free security updates for at least 18 months on the desktop and server. With the Long Term Support (LTS) version you get three years support on the desktop, and five years on the server. There is no extra fee for the LTS version, we make our very best work available to everyone on the same free terms. Upgrades to new versions of Ubuntu are and always will be free of charge.
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DaNiX |
http://www.danix.cz/ |
35842x |
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Knoppix STD 0.1 |
http://www.knoppix-std.org/ |
26686x |
Knoppix-STD is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. That would include a customized linux kernel (2.4.21 with ntfs rw, openmosix, and superfreeswan patches), Fluxbox windows manager, incredible hardware detection and hundreds of applications.
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Knoppix |
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ |
24497x |
Knoppix is a bootable CD Linux distribution with automatic hardware detection, and support for many peripherals. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.
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Debian |
http://www.debian.org |
22036x |
Debian is a free operating system distributed in three branches - stable, testing, and unstable. The distribution contains huge number of DEB packages (over 8700), which are well-tested stable pieces of free software.
It's not primarily intended for unexperienced users, as it doesn't contain any high-level software for system administration. The distribution consists of 1 to 7 CDs,
and may be instaled and updated (even upgraded) over LAN or internet.
Package versions are here:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
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Slackware |
http://www.slackware.com |
19321x |
Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system.i It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.2 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. A full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server, a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. Slackware Linux can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon).
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Gentoo Linux |
http://www.gentoo.org |
16409x |
Gentoo Linux is source-based distribution. It means whole system is compiled from scratch. But compilation is simple: Gentoo has Portage packaging system which makes compilation easier. For example: Installing&compiling postfix+fetchmail+antispam filter+clamav antivirus with all needed perl's modules is only about typing "emerge postfix fetchmail amavisd".
Gentoo is not for beginners, you have to set up all applications by hand (but it's not difficult :-))
List of installable packages: http://packages.gentoo.org
The distribution is clean, applications run faster and there are only packages you want.
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Damn small linux |
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ |
14836x |
Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, USB support, and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.
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Puppy Linux |
http://www.puppylinux.org/ |
14563x |
Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full featured. Puppy boots into a 48-64MB ramdisk, and that's it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in its entirety loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device (flash-Puppy), CDROM (live-Puppy), Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk (zippy-Puppy), floppy disks (floppy-Puppy), internal hard drive (hard-Puppy) or a network drive to a thin-client.
The Puppy Linux project does not provide a package list of included software packages and versions.
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SLAX |
http://www.slax.org/ |
13659x |
SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware GNU Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD.
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Linux LiveCD Router |
http://www.wifi.com.ar/[..]cdrouter.html |
12753x |
Linux LiveCD Router is a Linux distribution designed to share a broadband connection over WiFi. It can be used with DSL, cable modem, T1, ISDN, and dial-up connections. It can also be used it as a firewall, or as an access point for most WiFi cards. Linux LiveCD Router does not require any installation, but requires a dedicated computer to boot and run the CD.
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MoviX2 |
http://movix.sourceforge.net/ |
11749x |
MoviX2 (i.e. MoviX squared) is a small-sized (~40MB) Linux "live CD" distro containing all the software to boot from any media you like (CD, HD, Net, CompactFlash card, USB pen) and start automagically X-window and within it the GUI version of MPlayer, simply the best multimedia player available on Linux.
Its name is due to the presence of two big Xs in his environment: one is the last letter of Unix and the other is the first letter of X-window :-)
Supported formats are all formats supported by mplayer, most noticeably DivX and QuickTime but more in general any DVD, VCD, AudioCD, avi, mpeg, ogm, wmv, asf, fli and a few others.
MPlayer reads also mp3 & ogg/vorbis files, so you can also use it to play music!
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alcolix |
http://alcolix.sourceforge.net/ |
11000x |
alcolix is a minimal Linux rescue distribution with the goals of being small, compatible, and very usable.
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Monkey - Mini Linux |
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/[..]linux/monkey/ |
9956x |
Monkey Linux can be extracted to the DOS filesystem (to the FAT32 too). This is complete small ELF distribution with latest kernel on 5 diskettes. Monkey can run on this minimal HW: 386SX, 4MB RAM, 30MB on IDE HDD. Contain X Window for any SVGA videocard, support for network, support for 3C5x9, 3c59x, 3c900, NE2000/NE1000, WD80x3 ethernet cards, ATAPI/MITSUMI CD. There is some ready-to-install packages, GCC and kernel source for compiling your own kernel too.
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Onebase Linux |
http://www.onebaselinux.org |
9702x |
Onebase is a full fledged OS targeted at diverse users ranging from newbies to professionals. And with its exclusive set of network tools Onebase is ready for enterprises.
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