Good Open Source

Leading Distributions

Leading distributions have usually been around for a while and are well-established. They will support several architectures from low-end x86 versions to high-end versions for IBM mainframes and the latest 64-bit technology. Some come from companies that supply service and support contracts for their products, others are community projects. Leading distributions usually support many languages.

1. Debian GNU/Linux
   http://www.debian.org/
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian/
   The Debian Project is one of the oldest distributions and is currently the largest volunteer based distribution provider. The distribution supports many languages and hardware platforms, for example the Etch release supports i386, amd64, powerpc, alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, mips/mipsel, sparc and s390. Several architectures offer a choice between 32-bit and 64-bits kernel.. The old stable version (still supported) is Debian 3.1 (sarge) - initial release June 6, 2005 - now at revision 8 released April 13, 2008. The current stable version 4.0 (etch) was released April 8, 2007 - now at revision 5 released October 23, 2008. Debian users who want a more current desktop distribution are encouraged to use the testing branch, which is where the next stable release (currently codenamed Lenny) is prepared and which should normally be quite stable. A Live CD image of Debian Lenny (v5.0) beta1 was released August 27, 2008. Debian Developers and users who want to live on the bleeding edge can run the unstable branch (Sid) or even try packages from experimental.
2. Fedora
   http://fedoraproject.org/
   Fedora Project wiki
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/fedora_project/
   The Fedora Project is Red Hat's community distribution. It is intended to be a fast-paced distribution for those that like to stay on the leading edge of technology. It is also a test-bed for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux products. The Fedora contains all the packages necessary to run a functional desktop or small server. The first Fedora Core release was dated November 5, 2003. Fedora strives for a new release every 6 months and releases will be supported for 13 months. The old stable version is Fedora 8, released November 8, 2007. The current stable version is Fedora 9, released May 13, 2008. Fedora 10 Beta was released September 30, 2008.
3. Gentoo Linux
   http://www.gentoo.org/
   Gentoo Linux is a source-based distribution that can be optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Gentoo offers extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community. Users keep their systems up-to-date using Portage, which is based on BSD Ports. Gentoo is a meta-distribution with a large number of packages available (nearly 11,000 as of April 2006). Gentoo Linux 2005.1 is currently available for Alpha, AMD64, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, X86, IA64 and SPARC32. Gentoo Linux 2006.0 was released February 27, 2006. Gentoo Linux 2006.1 was released August 30, 2006. Gentoo Linux 2007.0 was released May 7, 2007. Gentoo Linux 2008.0 was released July 6, 2008. Gentoo 2008.0-r1 fixes some live CD issues.
4. Mandriva Linux
   http://www.mandrivalinux.com/
   Mandriva
   Mandriva Brazil
   Mandriva is a new name for two popular distribution companies resulting from the merger of the French company Mandrakesoft and the Brazilian company Conectiva. Mandriva has also acquired Lycoris assets and hired Lycoris founder and CEO, Joesph Cheek on June 15, 2005. Mandriva Linux 2006 merged technology from MandrakeSoft, Conectiva and Lycoris. This version became generally available on October 13, 2005 and reached an end of support on April 13, 2007. Mandriva Linux One is a combined live and install CD, first released in March 2006. The Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 was released September 19, 2006. Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.0 was released June 21, 2007. Mandriva Linux 2008 was released October 9, 2007. ML 2008.1 was released April 9, 2008. ML 2008.1 Xfce edition was released May 1, 2008. Mandriva Linux 2009 was released October 9, 2008.
5. Red Hat Enterprise
   http://www.redhat.com/
   Red Hat, Inc. provides one of the the best known distributions in the world. In 2003 the company announced its decision to drop its popular Red Hat Linux in order to concentrate on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux line. The Fedora Project (see above) has replaced the Red Hat Linux line for the home user or small business. Red Hat Linux 9 was released April 7, 2003, and official Red Hat support ended on May 1, 2004. Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with service and support contracts for those Red Hat customers who require a stable, supported system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 was released October 22, 2003. The seventh update for RHEL 3 was released March 15, 2006. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) was released February 15, 2005. The sixth update for RHEL 4 was released November 15, 2007. Version 4.7 was released July 24, 2008. RHEL 5 was released March 14, 2007. RHEL 5.1 was released November 7, 2007. Version 5.2 was released May 21, 2008. Version 5.3 beta was released October 28, 2008.
6. Slackware Linux
   http://www.slackware.com/
   Slackware German forum: http://www.slackforum.de/
   Slackware (Italian style) http://www.slack.z00.it/slack/slack.html
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/slackware/
   The Slackware project is headed by Patrick J. Volkerding, with a cast of volunteers and a loyal following. It is the oldest active Linux distribution with the first release dated July 16, 1993. The official Slackware project supports only x86 platforms, however others have made ports to other platforms. Slackware 10.2 was released September 14, 2005. Slackware 11.0 was released October 3, 2006. Slackware 12.0 was released July 1, 2007. Slackware 12.1 was released May 2, 2008. KDE 4.1 is now available in Slackware -current.
7. SuSE Linux
   http://www.novell.com/linux/
   openSUSE
   Nuremberg based SuSE Linux AG is one of the older Linux distributions. It became the the European UnitedLinux partner, and supplied much of the code base for UnitedLinux and for Sun's Java Desktop System (both now unsupported). SuSE was later acquired by US company Novell (finalized January 12, 2004). SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) supports x86, x86-64, IPF (ia64), POWER (32 & 64bit, ppc & ppc64) and Mainframes (32 & 64bit, s390 & s390x). OpenSUSE is the community distribution beginning with SUSE Linux 10.0, released October 6, 2005. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) are available for enterprise customers. SLES/SLED 10 became generally available July 17, 2006, now at Service Pack 2, released May 21, 2008. openSUSE 10.3 was released October 4, 2007. The 10.3 Live edition is also available. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 was released November 27, 2007. openSUSE 11.0 was released June 19, 2008. openSUSE 11.1 beta3 was released October 22, 2008.
8. Ubuntu
   http://www.ubuntu.com/
   Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Studio
   Ubuntu and its close cousins are freely available distributions, supported by Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu takes a snapshot of Debian unstable and then creates a small fork, recompiling and stabilizing the code to get a final stable release. It usually takes 6 months between the snapshot and the release. Ubuntu comes with the GNOME desktop, Kubuntu with the KDE desktop, Xubuntu features XFCE and Edubuntu comes with educational packages. Mythbuntu integrates the MythTV package. Ubuntu Studio integrates packages for multimedia creation. Gobuntu (announced July 10, 2007) merged with gNewSense in 2008. The first Ubuntu release (4.10 Preview released September 15, 2004) supported Intel x86 (IBM-compatible PC), AMD64 (Hammer) and PowerPC (Apple iBook and Powerbook, G4 and G5) architectures. SPARC64 support was added for v6.06 LTS. Supported versions: 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake", 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" (eol October 19, 200 , 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" and 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron". V6.06.2 LTS (the second maintenance release) was made available January 21, 2008. "Hardy Heron" aka v8.04 LTS was released April 24, 2008, available in desktop and server editions. Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS was released July 3, 2008. Edubuntu is now available as an add-on to Ubuntu. Kubuntu 8.04 is available with KDE 3 or KDE 4. Other available 8.04 variants include Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio and Mythbuntu. The current development branch is Intrepid Ibex (v8.10), Beta was released October 23, 2008.

   Also well-known

   There is often a fine line between "leading" and "well-known" distributions. Some polls now show that a few of these "well-known" distributions are currently more popular than some of the "leading" distributions.

9. CentOS
   http://www.centos.org/
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/centos/
   CentOS, the Community ENTerprise Operating System, is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) Support is provided by the cAos Foundation. This project dates back to late 2003. CentOS 3.9 was released on July 26, 2007. CentOS 4.5 was released for i386, x86_64, and ia64 on May 17, 2007. The CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD was released February 18, 2008. CentOS 4.7 was released for i386 and x86_64 on September 13, 2008. Version 4.7 is also available for ia64, s390 and s390x architectures. The CentOS 4.7 Server CD (i386) was released October 17, 2008. CentOS 5.2 for i386 and x86_64 was released June 24, 2008. The CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD was released July 17, 2008.
10. KNOPPIX
    http://www.knoppix.com/
    http://www.knoppix.net/
    http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
    German: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
    This German distribution is the original, Debian-based live CD, spawning dozens (hundreds?) of remasters and customized live CD distributions. Take your KNOPPIX CD with you when you're on the road and run Linux anywhere. KNOPPIX is a complete GNU/Linux installation which runs from CD, with automatic hardware detection and configuration for many graphics and sound cards, SCSI devices, and peripherals. Knoppix first showed up on May 29, 2002. KNOPPIX 5.0 Live DVD was released for CeBIT 2006. Knoppix 5.3.0 was released during CeBIT 2008. Knoppix 5.3.1, based on Debian Lenny+unstable, was released released March 26, 2008.
11. MEPIS Linux
    http://www.mepis.org/
    MEPIS Community
    MEPIS Linux is a Debian-based system for the desktop or as a dedicated server. It is designed for both personal and business purposes. The first official release was version 2003.0, dated May 10, 2003. The live CD allows installation or functions as a recovery CD. SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3 was released February 9, 2006. SimplyMEPIS started using Ubuntu packages starting with 6.0-beta, but with 6.9.51prebeta came another change. SimplyMEPIS will use its own binary packages, compliled from Debian and Ubuntu sources. Also available: MEPISLite 3.3.2. SimplyMEPIS 6.0-1 Linux Bootable DVD was released September 9, 2006. SimplyMEPIS 6.5 was released April 4, 2007. AntiX, an Ultra-Lite MEPIS Derivative. released v6.5 "Spartacus" on July 9, 2007. SimplyMEPIS 7.0 was released December 23, 2007. AntiX 7.5 was released August 22, 2008. The fourth Beta of MEPIS 8.0 (based on Debian Lenny) was released October 27, 2008.
12. PCLinuxOS
    http://www.pclinuxos.com/
    GetPCLinuxOS
    TinyMe
    Forum
    PCLinuxOS 2K4 started out as a live CD based on Mandriva. These days it's popular KDE-centric desktop distribution in own right. The 2007 release has been rebuilt from the ground up with Gcc 4.1.1 and contains lots of cutting edge software. PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 was the current version as of December 17, 2003. PCLinuxOS 0.93a MiniME was released August 4, 2006. PCLinuxOS 0.93a Junior was released August 9, 2006. PCLInuxOS Full Edition aka Big Daddy was released August 21, 2006. PCLinuxOS 2007 was released May 20, 2007. TinyMe is a smaller version of PCLOS (less than 200 MB on a live CD). TinyMe 2008.0 was released May 23, 2008. TinyMe 2008.1 alpha 1 was released September 16, 2008. PCLOS Gnome 2008 was released April 1, 2008. PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 was released January 7, 2008. PCLinuxOS N1PTT-TR3 (2009 beta) was released October 18, 2008.
13. Turbolinux
    http://www.turbolinux.com/
    Turbolinux supports a variety of platforms and Asian languages. They were the Asian arm of UnitedLinux. March 15, 2004 Turbolinux became a wholly owned subsidiary of Livedoor, a large Japanese ISP. Turbolinux 10 Desktop was released October 2, 2003. Turbolinux 10 F, designed for home computer users, was released April 27, 2004. Turbolinux 10 Server (10S) was released October 5, 2004. Turbolinux 10 for AMD64/EM64T preview edition was released February 16, 2005. Turbolinux FUJI Desktop Version 11 was released November 2005. Turbolinux FUJI Version 11 became generally available May 30, 2006. Turbolinux 11 Server was released November 29, 2007. Turbolinux 12 (Client 2008 Net User Package) was released August 29, 2008.

    Non-technical desktop

    These are designed to be user-friendly, easy to install distributions with plenty of desktop applications.

14. AltimatOS
    http://www.altimatos.com/
    AltimatOS is an easy to use desktop with the K Desktop Environment. The project was announced April 9, 2008 and is currently is under heavy internal development by the core development team, as we build the various components and create numerous new tools to make the desktop experience friendlier to use. An installable live DVD is expected to be released in late April or early May.
15. Ark Linux
    http://www.arklinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/arklinux/
    Ark Linux is a Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use, primarily for people without prior Linux experience. Its main goal is ease of use, and the inclusion of many tools end users will need. Early Ark Linux was based on Red Hat 7.3 / 8.0, with KDE, with the initial Freshmeat announcement of version 1.0-0.alpha7.1, released March 14, 2003. Ark Linux 2006.1 and Ark Linux Live 2006.1 were released August 3, 2006. Ark Linux 2008.1 was released May 14, 2008.
16. Athene Operating System
    http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/
    Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office. Athene combines years of Rocklyte's R&D with the latest Linux technology to create one of the fastest operating systems available today. With boot times as fast as four seconds and advanced graphics technology not available in standard Linux distributions. Athene 5.0 Beta 4 was released February 22, 2007.
17. BabelDisc
    http://www.babeldisk.com/
    BabelDisc is a Linux live CD distribution aimed at Windows users. The company provides BabelBank, online, password protected storage data, for a small monthly fee.
18. DARKSTAR
    http://www.darkstarlinux.ro/
    DARKSTAR Linux is a desktop oriented, easy to install, configure and use, distribution that targets the beginners in Linux. This Slackware based distribution has a lot of easy to use GUI tools, a lot of applications of office, multimedia and games. The operating system is designed to work out of the box. DARKSTAR Linux 2008.1 was released January 8, 2008.
19. DeLi Linux
    http://www.delilinux.org/
    http://delilinux.de/
    http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/delilinux/
    DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux, a desktop distribution for older computers, from 486 to Pentium MMX 166 or so. Slackware 7.1-based DeLi includes plenty of desktop software such as email clients, a graphical Web browser, an office package with word processor and spreadsheet, etc. A full install, including XFree86 and development tools, needs no more than 300 MB of harddisk space. DeLi uses the 2.2.19 kernel for a smaller footprint and rocksolid stability on older hardware. Initial version 0.1 was released November 3, 2002. Version 0.7.2 was released May 17, 2007. DeLi Linux 0.8.0 was released May 28, 2008.
20. eAR OS
    http://www.earos.dk/
    eAR OS is a state-of-the-art Operating System. It can run directly from a Live-CD and optionally be installed to a hard disk. eAR OS comes with the eAR Media Center. Furthermore, eAR OS comes with the newest version of following applications: Wine for using Windows applications, Audacity Sound and Recording Editor, Audio CD extractor with FLAC and MP3 support, k3B CD- and DVD Burner, Kaffeine for DVB-S and DVB-T TV and DVD playback, VLC for Broadband TV, Firefox 3.0 Webbrowser, Thunderbird E-mail/News, Pidgin internet Messenger for MSN, F-Spot Photo Manager, GIMP Image Editor, and several utilities and accessories. With its package manager you can further install more than 15000 applications. eAR was added to the list May 20, 2008 with the release of eAR OS Free Edition version 1.08. eAR OS Free Edition v1.10b was released June 23, 2008.
21. ELX, Everyone's Linux
    http://www.elxlinux.com/
    Elx provides an easy-to-use desktop (BizDesktop) distribution and a server offering (ISPserver). BizDesktop 4.0 is based on kernel 2.4.20 and contains a variety of applications suitable for business and home usage. ELX BizDesktop 4.0 became available for free download January 10, 2005. This site shows several products for sale, from desktops to servers, but no download area that I found on April 24, 2008.
22. FoX Desktop
    http://www.foxlinux.org/
    FoX Desktop is based on Fedora Core and designed for the desktop. It offers a single CD install with a KDE desktop and lots of other desktop software, optimized for i686. FoX joins the list with FoXDesktop 1 released December 25, 2005. FoX Desktop 1.0 Professional was released April 4, 2006. FoXLinux Community 2.0 was released August 4, 2007.
23. Freezy Linux
    http://www.freezylinux.com/
    Freezy Linux is a free, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system for the home. The initial version was based on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and the GNOME desktop environment. It comes as a live CD which can be installed to the hard drive if desired. FreezyLinux 1.0 was released in late April 2008.
24. GKLinuxOS
    http://www.gklinuxos.net
    GKLinuxOS is based on PCLinuxOS 2007 and comes with lots of applications including OpenOffice.org and other office software, graphics and drawing, multimedia audio-video programs, programs for web-browsing, email and chat, and much more. GKLinuxOS 2008 was released May 14, 2008.
25. OpenGEU
    http://opengeu.intilinux.com/
    Formerly called Geubuntu, OpenGEU is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution that uses parts of GNOME with Enlightenment DR17. OpenGEU 7.10 Luna Nuova was released December 6, 2007. OpenGEU 8.04.1 Luna Crescente Live CD was released September 8, 2008.
26. gOS
    http://www.thinkgos.com/
    gOS is an Ubuntu based distribution that aims to be a simple, user friendly, beautiful desktop for normal people. It features the Enlightenment window manager. The initial version was based on Ubuntu 7.10 and Enlightenment E17. gOS 2.0 "Rocket" was released January 7, 2008. gOS 3 Gadgets (based on Ubuntu 8.04.1) was released September 25, 2008.
27. Granular Linux
    http://www.granularproject.org/
    Granular is a Linux operating system that is easy to use, user-friendly and filled with lots of fun. Designed for both newbies and experienced Linux users, Granular is based on PCLinuxOS and features easy switching between the KDE and XFCE desktop environments. Granular 0.90, code-named Esto Vello, was released July 3, 2007. Granular FunWorks 2007 was released October 7, 2007. Granular 1.0 RC was released July 1, 2008.
28. Ignalum Linux OS
    http://www.ignalum.com/index.php
    Ignalum Linux OS is an intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box and offers compatibility with Microsoft Windows and Ignalum's Internet-sharing and IPv6-over-NAT capabilities. Currently at version 9.0b, released September 13, 2004. Ignalum 9.2 Yum Repository went live April 7, 2006.
29. Klikit-Linux
    http://klikit.org/
    Klikit-Linux is a non-formal project oriented on developing a modern, free, user-friendly and fun Linux desktop. It is based on Kubuntu and uses KDE (K Desktop Environment). Klikit-Linux can run as a LIVE-CD on practically any PC (x86), and can be installed to your hard drive in just a few minutes. It features the Klikit-Linux Storehouse, a free, easy, one-click on-line service to install and remove Linux programs (packages), libraries and drivers. Klikit joins the list at version 0.1-7B (beta), released October 17, 2007. DVD image: 0.1-9 (release candidate 1) was released February 27, 2008.
30. Linspire
    http://www.linspire.com/
    LinspireEspanol
    Freespire
    Linspire (once known as Lindows) was first announced in October 2001 as LindowsOS. The distribution was renamed Linspire in April 2004 and the company was renamed the following September. Linspire is a Debian-based distribution targeted at non-technical Windows users and it comes in a live CD version as well as a fully installable desktop. Some proprietary software is bundled into Linspire, easily available with CNR.com (Click and Run). Version 4.5, released December 16, 2003, supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. Freespire Linux OS 1.0 was released August 7, 2006. Freespire 2.0 was released August 8, 2007. Freespire 2.0.3 was released Septmeber 24, 2007. Linspire 6.0 was released October 10, 2007. Linspire was acquired by Xandros, announced July 2, 2008. Xandros plans to discontinue Linspire. Freespire 5, due out in late 2008, will be based on Debian Lenny. Freespire will be the base for future releases of Xandros Desktop Professional.
31. Linux Mint
    http://linuxmint.com/
    Linux Mint aims to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop based on Ubuntu. Linux Mint is like a customized version of Ubuntu. It uses the same repositories and the same packages. It follows the Ubuntu releases and innovations. Basically, it is 98% Ubuntu, with a few differences, notably the default inclusion of patented or proprietary technologies for an easy-to-use desktop out of the box. Linux Mint 2.0 "Barbara", based on Ubuntu 6.10, was released November 13, 2006. Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna is based on its predecessor, Celena, and Ubuntu Gutsy. Daryna is also available in the XFCE Community Edition, the KDE Community Edition, Fluxbox CE, and the Debian Edition. Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was released June 8, 2008. Linux Mint 5 Elyssa XFCE CE was released September 8, 2008. Linux Mint 5 Elyssa KDE CE RC1 (BETA 045) was released August 5, 2008. Linux Mint 5 Fluxbox Community Edition was released October 21, 2008. LM5 Elyssa v5.0 x64 (for AMD64) was released October 18, 2008.
32. Linux XP Desktop
    http://www.linux-xp.com/
    Linux XP Desktop is a full-featured PC operating system like Windows but based on Linux. Thousands of Windows applications have been tested for compatibility, so you can run them on your Linux XP Desktop. If you dual boot you can use data from your Windows data drives, share folders or even logon to Windows. The Linux XP Desktop was first developed as a simple, friendly OS for the Russian market. Some proprietary software is included in this distribution. The first version was released in December 2005. Linux XP Desktop 2006 SR2 was released September 21, 2006. Linux XP Desktop 2008 was released April 8, 2008.
33. Myah OS
    http://myah.org/
    Myah OS is a performance destkop operating system originally based on Slackware, but more recently it has been rewritten from the ground up. Myah OS joined the list at version 2.2, released September 19, 2006, which used Slackware 11.0 packages. Now Myah OS is made for home use with a focus on Internet, Office, and multimedia. It has been optimized for i686 processors for fast performance. Myah OS is now an original Linux distribution, compiled from build scripts written by Jeremiah Cheatham. Myah OS 3.0 beta 2 Box Edition was released April 12, 2008. Myah OS 3.0 Mouse Pro with Xfce 4.4, was released June 1, 2008. Myah OS 3.0 Box was released June 12, 2008. Myah OS 3.0 Dragon (with KDE 3) was released June 26, 2008.
34. Omega
    Download the iso
    Omega is a Linux based operating system suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a Live CD for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems that includes a variety of free and open source software from Fedora and Livna repository. You can try it out on a computer or install it to the hard disk. The initial release, Omega 10 beta released September 27, 2008, is roughly similar to Fedora 10 Beta.
35. PC/OS
    http://www.pc-os.org/
    http://pcos08.wordpress.com/ PC/OS is a Linux based distribution that provides ease of use out of the box. It provides all multimedia codecs out of the box, an easy to use and simplified interface, and great compatibility with older hardware. PC/OS 2008v2, released August 30, 2008, is a remix of Ubuntu 8.04.1, with extra packages, with bug releases and distribution updates.
36. PCFluxboxOS
    http://pcfluxboxos.wikidot.com/
    TinyFlux
    PCFluxboxOS is a remaster series of PCLinuxOS with Fluxbox as the window manager. PCFluxboxOS gives you all the power of PCLinuxOS through Synaptic and the Control Center, whilst delivering a lightning fast operating system, even on older hardware. TinyFlux is a related project with an even lighter footprint. MidiFlux 0.6.1 beta was released September 27, 2007. TinyFlux 1.0 was released November 2, 2007.
37. Pioneer Linux
    http://www.tapioneer.com/
    Pioneer Linux by Technalign is a desktop distribution for home or business. It is based on Kubuntu and MEPIS. You can download the distribution for free, but Technalign is also selling box sets, Pioneer Linux OnTheGo on a USB key and, of course support and customization. Available for x86 and x86_64 now, with PPC in the works. The initial release of Pioneer Linux in 32 and 64 bit versions is dated December 4, 2006. Pioneer Rifleman Alpha 2 (eye candy edition) was released April 13, 2007. Pioneer Explorer 1.1 community edition was released September 7, 2007, followed by the Server Final release on September 12, 2007. Pioneer Basic 3.0, including MigrationSERVER and Stagecoach, was released September 21, 2007. Pioneer Basic and Pioneer Explorer 3.2 were released June 17, 2008.
38. Shift Linux
    http://www.shiftlinux.net/
    Shift Linux is an attempt by the Neowin community to create a Linux distribution. It's based on Morphix/Debian and the project was started in late June of 2006. Shift Linux 0.3.1 Gnome was released October 17, 2006. Shift Linux 0.5 was released November 25, 2007. This version includes GNOME, KDE or Fluxbox. Shift Linux 6.0 was released January 26, 2008. Shift Linux 0.6.5 was released March 24, 2008.
39. SaxenOS
    http://saxenos.de/
    SaxenOS (formerly STX Linux) is a desktop Linux distribution especially targeted to older hardware. It also works quite well on new PC's. Version 1.0 is based on Slackware 10.2 with a hard disk installer borrowed from Pocketlinux. STX Linux joined the list at 1.0 rc3, released December 29, 2005. STX Linux 1.0 final was released January 9, 2006. Zenwalk 4.2-based SaxenOS Desktop 1.1 RC2 was released January 26, 2007. English 1.1 rc2 iso with a graphical installer was released February 13, 2007. There will be no 1.1 final release. SaxenOS 2.0 was released March 17, 2007. SaxenOS 2008 Beta 2 was released March 30, 2008.
40. Symphony OS
    http://www.symphonyos.com/
    Symphony OS is based on Debian and KNOPPIX. It uses a lightweight window manager, includes its own package mangement system that can install deb packages, source packages and Symphony binary packages, and includes the Orchestra application development environment. Beta 1 Preview 1 was released October 25, 2005. SymphonyOS 2006-12 was released December 13, 2006. Symphony OS 2007.06 (the first Ubuntu-based release) was released June 6, 2007. SymphonyOne 2008.1 (based on Ubuntu 7.10) was released April 11, 2008.
41. Ulteo
    http://www.ulteo.com/
    Ulteo strives to be the easiest system to use on computers. Ulteo is a new concept of an easy-to-use open-source operating system which could change the way we all use computers. The project was founded by Mandrake/Mandriva founder Gaël Duval, in late 2006. Ulteo currently consists of the Ulteo Online Desktop (Ulteo OD, version 1 - released March 18, 200 and the Ulteo Application System. Ulteo AS "Sirius" was released July 22, 2008. Ulteo Application System “Polaris” alpha was released October 28, 2008.
42. Vidalinux Desktop OS
    http://desktop.vidalinux.com/
    http://www.vidalinux.com/
    Vidalinux Desktop OS aims to be a powerful, stable and easy-to-use Linux distribution. It comes from Puerto Rico. The desktop OS is based on Gentoo Linux and uses the GNOME desktop environment, OpenOffice, Ximian productivity suite with Evolution mail and calendar client, and Mozilla browser. Vidalinux features Porthole, a GUI front-end for and the portage package manager. Vidalinux Desktop OS also includes additional multimedia and productivity applications for the home user including media players, browser plugins for Flash, RealPlayer, PDF viewer, media, graphics design and administration tools. Vidalinux was still in its first beta edition when added to the list on July 14, 2004. VLOS 1.2, based on Gentoo Linux and Red Hat's anaconda graphical installer, was released August 2, 2005. VLOS 1.3 was released October 18, 2006. VLOS 1.3.1-rc1 was released December 2, 2006. Got to a CentOS/Apache test page for the desktop page, on May 30, 2008. Let's see if it comes back.
43. Vixta.org
    http://vixta.sourceforge.net/
    Vixta.org is Linux distribution that tries to capture the look and feel of Windows Vista. The project goals include: Absolutely free, in every sense, spread linux to the "masses", ABN - Absolutely No Config, User-Frendly, Eye-catching, and Familiar look and Feel. Vixta joins the list at v094, released October 6, 2007. 099 PRO Edition, Live DVD (Beta2) is available as of May 30, 2008.
44. Webconverger
    http://webconverger.com/
    Webconverger uses Debian Live technology to provide a Web platform for kiosks, thin clients, or anywhere else you want a secure, dedicated web browser. It runs from a live CD or USB device. A hard drive install option will probably be available in the future. The maxi version of Webconverger has good support for CJK languages, such as Korean. This entry was added to the list April 23, 2008 when the latest version was Webconverger 3 beta with Firefox 3 beta. Webconverger 3.2 with Iceweasel 3 was released July 19, 2008. Webconverger 3.5 mini was released October 18, 2008.
45. Xandros Linux
    http://www.xandros.com/
    Xandros Desktop OS (formerly Corel's Debian-based distribution) is a desktop system designed to peacefully co-exist and inter-operate with Windows desktop and server systems. The first version of the Xandros Desktop OS was released October 22, 2002. Xandros Server is also out. Xandros released an enterprise package with the Xandros Business Desktop and OS on March 11, 2004. Xandros Desktop OS version 3.0 was released December 8, 2004, and went into open circulation February 14, 2005. Version 3 of the Xandros Business Desktop OS was released June 8, 2005. The Xandros Server, Standard Edition began shipping on May 1, 2006. Xandros Server for 64-bit processors was released June 1, 2006. Xandros Desktop 4 Home Edition and Home Edition - Premium were released June 21, 2006. Xandros Desktop 4 Professional was released November 28, 2006. Note: May 30, 2008 - products seem current, but without version numbers or dates. Xandros acquired Linspire July 2, 2008.

    General Purpose

    These distributions should be suitable for desktop and server applications. Most should have current versions available.

46. Absolute
    http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
    Absolute is a customized Slackware distribution, assembled to make installation and maintenance of Slackware easier. It's built for speed, stability, security, ease of use and development. It is lightweight and should run on older hardware. Absolute joined the list with the release of v12.0, July 16, 2007. Absolute Linux 12.0.7 was released October 12, 2007. Absolute 12.1.10 was released October 16, 2008.
47. ALT Linux
    http://www.altlinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/alt-linux/
    LWN distribution survey completed May 3, 2002.
    ALT Linux got its start as a Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition Spring 2001 and has since diverged into a unique distribution. It is well-known in Russia. Designed to be a universal distribution, ALT is suitable for servers, user workstations, software development, etc. ALT Linux has several sub-projects. The unstable, development branch Sisyphus, changes daily. ALT Linux Master 2.2 was released March 7, 2003. ALT Linux Junior 2.2 (Plum) was released March 26, 2003. ALT Linux Compact 3.0.4 was released June 28, 2007. ALT Linux Server 4.0.1 was released June 27, 2007. ALT Linux 4.0 Personal Desktop was released August 29, 2007. ALT Linux 4.0 Terminal was released September 11, 2008. ALT Linux 4.1 Desktop was released October 7, 2008.
48. Arch Linux
    http://www.archlinux.org/
    Arch Linux is an i686-optimized Linux distribution. It is lightweight and contains the latest stable versions of software. Packages are in .tar.gz format and are tracked by a package manager that is designed to allow easy package upgrades. Arch is designed to be streamlined while allowing for a customized configuration, with newer features such as reiserfs/ext3 and devfs. The inital version, 0.1, was released March 11, 2002. Arch Linux released Pacman 2.1 (package manager) on August 22, 2002. Arch released an x86_64 edition April 12, 2006. Arch 0.8 (Voodoo) for i686 and x86_64 was released March 31, 2007. Archlinux 2007.08-2 "Don't Panic" was released October 7, 2007. Archlinux 2008.06 "OverLord" was released June 24, 2008.
49. ASPLinux
    http://www.asplinux.ru/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/asplinux/
    ASPLinux is an RPM-based general purpose Linux distribution. It features an intuitive GUI install with integrated partition resizer (supported types are ext2fs, fat16, fat32, and ntfs) and comprehensive packages set. The distribution provides full compatibility with Red Hat RPMs, and it is available in English, Russian, Korean, and Chinese languages. ASP 7.3 (vostok) was released August 13, 2002. ASPLinux 11 was released March 6, 2006. ASPLinux 12 was the current version in August 2008.
50. Business Edition Linux (BEL)
    http://www.pclosbe.org/
    Business Edition Linux (BEL) is a business version of PCLinuxOS. Its goal is to present PCLinuxOS in a way that benefits small business needs. By "re-wrapping" PCLinuxOS as both servers and business oriented desktops, this project aims to bring the best of the PCLOS experience to the small business market. This entry was added August 25, 2008.
51. BLAG Linux and GNU
    http://www.blagblagblag.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/blag/
    BLAG Linux and GNU by the Brixton Linux Action Group is an operating system. It comes with everything you need to get a computer up and running--it needs no other software. It has Internet, graphics, video, sound, office, security, file sharing, and more applications. It's fast, reliable, runs on older machines, and flies on fast boxes. You can install miniblag (the smallest install at less than 350 Megs), deskblag (includes a Gnome desktop with all the typical apps), serverblag (all the server daemons but no GUI) or get it all with blagblagblag. BLAG starts with Fedora and adds applications from Dag, Freshrpms, NewRPMS, and includes custom packages. BLAG9000 was the current version when the entry was added, November 11, 2003. BLAG 60001 was released May 10, 2007. BLAG 70000 (sugarwater) was released November 12, 2007. BLAG 90001 (oxygen) was released July 21, 2008.
52. cAos
    http://www.caoslinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/caos/
    cAos aims to be a lean and streamlined operating system that incorporates robustness, performance and the constant ability to recreate itself. The focus is on high performance and scalability, from the build model all the way down to system management and user interface, making CAOS not only the distribution of choice for clusters, servers, and appliances, but also a solid choice for graphical workstations, and the latest laptops. CAOS Linux is designed to run out of the box on all i386 and x86_64 based hardware. The project was announced November 8, 2003, followed by the first alpha release on December 1, 2003. cAos 3.0 NSA Update was released October 26, 2007.
53. Catapulta
    http://www.catapulta.org/
    Catapulta is an Ubuntu-based server platform that is designed and packaged specifically for high-performance network monitoring applications using commodity hardware. Catapulta distinctly incorporates enhancements tailored for high-speed packet capture, including kernel modifications and software optimizations. It integrates PF_RING, a zero-copy packet capture technology, and Streamline, a fast stream reassembler and filter -- as standard kernel features. Catapulta 1.0 was released April 24, 2008.
54. CCux Linux
    http://ccux-linux.de/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccuxlinux/
    CCux Linux is especially optimized for i686 and higher processor architectures. For package management it uses the RPM format in connection with the apt tools, which give it automatic dependency resolving when installing new software and therefore makes the installation of new software much easier. CCux Linux joins the list with the Alpha 0.9.4 release, dated October 14, 2004. CCux Linux 0.9.9 was released August 4, 2008.
55. CRUX
    http://www.crux.nu/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/crux/
    CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. Version 1.1 was released March 24, 2003. CRUX 1.3.1 for PowerPC was released February 25, 2004. CRUX 2.2 was released April 9, 2006. Crux PPC 2.2.0.2rc1 was released February 10, 2007. CRUX 2.3 was released March 20, 2007. CRUX 2.4 was released December 22, 2007.
56. Draco GNU/Linux
    http://www.dracolinux.org/
    Draco is a semi source based GNU/Linux distribution. It has roots in Slackware and uses pkgsrc, a package management system from NetBSD. Draco separates the system from the third-party packages, for a simple and clean distribution to use as you see fit. Draco joined the list at v0.3.0, released April 10, 2008.
57. EzPlanet One Linux
    http://www.EzPlanetOne.com/
    Wiki
    EzPlanet One is a Linux distribution tuned for Enterprise solutions. EzPlanet One integrates advanced technologies, flexibility, quality and security. Built with the Enterprise in mind, it features also several tools for the Professionals and Individual users, that make its use more fun. EzPlanet One version 2.0 was released January 2005. EzPlanet Router v24.1 build 132 was released July 24, 2007. Since then the project has been tracking Fedora. From the wiki: "EzPlanet One is a European based project that ... enjoys the freedom granted by the European Union on software patents. In the European Union, US and EPO software patents cannot be enforced."
58. FaunOS
    http://www.faunos.com/
    FaunOS is a portable (easy-to-carry), fully integrated Linux operating system with over 500 preinstalled packages. It is specifically designed to run from a portable USB Memory Device (USB Flash Drive). It can also run from a DVD. Hard drive install is also supported. FaunOS fortytwo-0.3.2 was released September 5, 2007. FaunOS shadow-0.5.4-stable was released March 14, 2008.
59. Foresight Desktop Linux
    http://foresightlinux.com/
    http://www.foresightlinux.org/
    Foresight Linux is a Distribution which showcases some of the latest and greatest from GNOME. Some of the things that may not be mature enough for some of the other distros. As of March 10, 2005 Foresight includes GNOME 2.10, Mono 1.1.4 and many Mono applications, GNOME Office, Howl, Conary and more. Foresight 0.9.3 was released December 15, 2005. The first Foresight LiveCD, released March 7, 2007, includes GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92). Foresight Linux 2.0.3 (with GNOME 2.22.3) was released July 2, 2008. Foresight 2.0.4 and the first Foresight GNOME Lite Edition were released July 23, 2008. The Foresight Mobile Edition was released September 13, 2008. Foresight Linux 1.0 Kid's edition was released September 18, 2008. Foresight 2.0.5 featuring GNOME 2.24 was released October 17, 2008.
60. Frugalware Linux
    http://frugalware.org/news.php
    Frugalware is general purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users. It has a current, a testing and a stable branch. The current branch is updated daily, with packages pushed to testing about every two months, and plans to update the stable branch every 6 months. Frugalware Linux 0.3-i686 was released October 13, 2005. Frugalware 0.8 (Kalgan) was released March 11, 2008. Frugalware 0.9 (Solaria) was released September 9, 2008.
61. gNewSense
    http://www.gnewsense.org/
    gNewSense is a GNU/Linux project that aims to remove all the binary blobs out of a rather popular distribution and make it all free. So far the project has produced a set of scripts to create a GNU/Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu. Version 0.91 (beta) was released August 23, 2006. gNewSense 1.1 was released January 22, 2007. gNewSense 2.0 "DeltaH", was released May 1, 2008. This version is based on Ubuntu Hardy, with Blag's deblob scripts for removing binary blobs from the kernel. DeltaH live CD 2.1 gNewSense was released August 24, 2008.
62. G-ZyX
    http://www.g-zyx.com/
    G-Zyx is a Fedora based distribution with a collection of open source software that runs from a single CD/DVD. Optional configurationless installation (smart caching) to available hard disk or flash based storage is supported. G-ZyX is the flagship manifestation of the ViROS distribution generation platform. ViROS leverages popular open and free RPM based *nix distributions to generate custom purpose live-CDs. G-ZyX's predecessor cousin TVOS is suited for home theater applications, while G-ZyX is suited for general purpose computing and development. G-ZyX was still in alpha development when this entry was added, November 15, 2005. As of October 2, 2008, this is still alpha.
63. IDMS Linux
    http://idms-linux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/idms-linux/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/idms/
    IDMS-Linux is a specialized Linux distribution focused on stability, security and long term support. The distribution targets more installations on servers and experienced administrators, providing an advanced, stable platform for services and development. The initial Freshmeat announcement was for version 2.0.25, dated June 22, 2002. Version 4.0.0 was released February 27, 2008. Development version 4.1.0 is expected to be released in early 2009.
64. Kate OS
    http://www.kateos.org/
    Kate OS is a multitasking operating system from Poland. Kate OS aims for high efficiency, safety, reliability and low system requirements for programmers, webmasters, administrators and home users. Kate OS contains full support for generally used multimedia. Kate OS 2.3 was released December 7, 2005. KateOS 3.0 LIVE was released September 4, 2006. KateOS 3.6 was released September 17, 2007.
65. Lunar-Linux
    http://www.lunar-linux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/lunarlinux/
    Lunar-Linux began as a fork of Sorcerer GNU/Linux. Lunar-Penguin, the development group behind Lunar-Linux, say they plan for this fork to stay close to the bleeding edge. This is a source-based Linux distribution with a unique package management system that builds each software package or module for the machine it is being installed on. Although a complete installation can take some time, it tends to be quite fast once installed. The initial ISO image lunar-20020321.iso.bz2 was released March 21, 2002. Lunar-1.5.0 "Indium Phosphide" was released May 23, 2005. Lunar 1.6.1 installer iso "Moose Drool" was released for i686 and x86_64, February 18, 2007. Lunar Linux 1.6.4 beta1 was been released for i686 and x86-64, October 14, 2008.
66. MostlyLinux
    http://mostlylinux.com/
    MostlyLinux is a software company based in Jharkhand, India. The company does mostly the same things other Linux companies do including enterprise support and service, corporate training and custom distributions. They also are building a distribution called MostlyLinux. MostlyLinux 9.1 is the latest offering. The distribution is based on Fedora core 1 with lots of additional software, including multimedia applications, LTSP packages and more. This entry added August 24, 2004. MostlyLinux 3.0 Enterprise/ Desktop was the most current version as of October 16, 2008.
67. NetMAX
    http://www.netmax.org/
    http://www.netmax.com/
    Cybernet Systems makes the NetMAX server and NetMAX Desktop. The server product does not appear to be available for download, but the NetMAX DeskTOP Live CD, 1.7 beta released May 18, 2005 is completely GNU GPL free software.
68. Nitix
    http://www.net-itech.com/products/nitix.php
    Net Integration Technologies Inc. presents Nitix, a server OS with autonomic computing features -- self-management, self-healing, self-configuring and self-optimizing capabilities.
69. NixOS
    http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/
    NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix, a purely functional package management system. NixOS is an experiment to see if we can build an operating system in which software packages, configuration files, boot scripts and the like are all managaed in a purely functional way, that is, they are all built by deterministic functions and they never change after they have been built.
70. OEone HomeBase
    http://www.axentra.com/
    Axentra provides Internet appliances for servers and desktops using the OEone Linux-based operating system.
71. Onebase Linux
    http://www.ibiblio.org/onebase/
    Onebase Linux (OL) is an independent meta source distribution originally created in July 2003. It aims to be a free distribution, both powerful and easy to use. OL 2005 was released April 30, 2005. OnebaseGo 3.0 and GamesGo 1.0 were released July 12, 2005. Onebase DevelopGo is a live CD with plenty of software developement tools. DevelopGo 1.0 was released July 30, 2005. StudioGo 1.0 was released August 17, 2005.
72. paldo
    http://www.paldo.org/
    paldo stands for "pure adaptable linux distribution". It is a Upkg driven GNU/Linux distribution and it's a mix of a source and a binary distribution. Even though it builds packages like a source distribution it provides binary packages. paldo joined the list at v1.12, released November 5, 2007. paldo 1.15 was released August 15, 2008.
73. Peachtree Linux
    http://peachtree.burdell.org/
    Peachtree Linux is a Linux distribution being developed by several students/former students at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since it's inception in the fall of 2002, Peachtree Linux has aimed to be a small system for the seasoned Linux user. In the interests of staying small, this distribution does not include GNOME or KDE and generally there is only one program per any task. Release 1 (Atlanta) is dated February 26, 2005, and it is available for Pentium II and higher x86 systems, NewWorld Power Macintosh systems, and Digital Alpha systems.
74. Pie Box Enterprise Linux
    http://www.piebox.com/
    PixExcel is a UK company that seeks to provide a maintained, stable and trusted Linux distribution without costly support contracts. Pie Box Enterprise Linux is built from the source RPMs of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The initial release, Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 AS, was made available in April 2004; AS 3 Update 9 was released June 15, 2007. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS was released February 28, 2005; version 4 AS Update 7 was released July 29, 2008.
75. easys GNU/Linux
    http://easys.gnulinux.de/en/
    easys (formerly known as Pocketlinux) has been founded to offer custom Enterprise Linux solutions. The easys approach differs from most other companies. Our aim is to integrate open source software with your existing network to help you replace unstable and insecure closed source software. It is based on Slackware and uses KDE Light. The first public release of pocketlinux, version 1.1, was released August 21, 2005. easys GNU/Linux 2.1 was released May 6, 2006. easys GNU/Linux 3.0, based on Slackware 11.0, was released October 4, 2006. easys GNU/Linux 4.2 was released September 28, 2008.
76. ROOT Linux
    http://www.rootlinux.org/
    http://rootlinux.sourceforge.net/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/rootlinux/
    ROOT Linux is an advanced GNU/Linux operating system. It aims to be fast, stable and flexible. ROOT Linux is not recommended as a first Linux distribution. People should have experience with Linux and computers in general. Version 1.3 was released August 27, 2002. Version 1.4 was released December 16, 2004.
77. rPath Linux
    http://www.rpath.com/
    http://www.specifix.com/
    rPath Linux started out as Specifix, a Linux distribution built around the Conary package management system. rPath Linux is a freely-available Linux operating system distribution, built with the Conary distributed software management system, supported and maintained by rPath, Inc. The rPath Linux distribution contains high-quality, up-to-date software, and is the base development platform for creating software appliances and purpose-built distributions using rBuilder Online. rPath Linux is also a fully functioning Linux distribution in its own right. Installing rPath Linux is the easiest way to get familiar with using Conary to manage software and systems. Specifix Linux 0.13 (ALPHA) was released October 26, 2004. The distribution was renamed rPath Linux with version 0.24 (ALPHA) (x86 and x86_64), released June 2, 2005. rPath Linux 1 (x86 and x86_64) was released February 15, 2006. rPath 1.0.7 (x86 and x86_64) was released October 12, 2007. rPath Linux: Live Images Beta was released June 21, 2006. rPath Linux 2 was released May 16, 2008.
78. Rubix
    http://www.rubixlinux.org/
    Rubix is a Slackware based distribution that uses the pacman package management from Arch Linux. Rubix 1.0 was released March 5, 2006.
79. Sabayon
    http://www.sabayonlinux.org/
    Previously known as RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux, Sabayon provides Gentoo-based live DVD images that can be installed to a hard drive or run from the DVD. Version 2.65.1 was released November 28, 2005. RR64 Linux 3.0 RC1 was released May 3, 2006. RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 miniEdition was released May 14, 2006. RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 full edition was released June 18, 2006. RR4 Linux 3.0 RC1 miniEdition was released July 1, 2006. SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 miniEdition 3.3 was released March 25, 2007. Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 1.0 "Business Edition" was released July 15, 2007. SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 3.4 Revision F (Stable) was released September 7, 2007. Sabayon Linux 3.4 x86/x86-64 miniEdition was released September 23, 2007. The Professional Edition was released October 23, 2007. Sabayon Linux 3.5 x86/x86-64 3.5 was released July 1, 2008.
80. Server optimized Linux
    http://www.sol-linux.com/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/sol/
    SoL (Server optimized Linux) is a product of antitachyon, an Austrian company located in Vienna. Built from the ground up from original sources, SoL aims to be stable and fast server distribution. SoL 18.00 was released May 18, 2004. Antitachyon also provides the SoL-DESKTOP and XoL (Diskless X office Linux). SoL 25.00 was released June 26, 2007.
81. Slack/390
    http://www.slack390.org/
    Slack/390 is port of Slackware Linux to IBM's S/390 hardware. Slack/390 10.0 was released February 11, 2005. The company Sine Nomine Associates will be offering commerical support for Slack/390.
82. Slamd64
    http://www.slamd64.com/
    Slamd64 is an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the x86_64 architecture; despite the name containing AMD64, Slamd64 should work both on K8 (AMD64) and EM64T (some Intel) processors. It was started from Slackware -current in 2004, and was created by cross-compiling from scratch, rather than using an existing 64-bit distribution as a base. Slamd64 is a multi-lib distribution, which means that you can run 32-bit applications easily, without a chroot. You can directly install most packages targeted at x86 Slackware. Slamd64 10.2 was released September 15, 2005. Slamd64 12.1 was released July 2, 2008.
83. SLAMPP
    http://slampp.abangadek.com/
    SLAMPP is a generic Linux distribution which can boot and run directly off CD-ROM or installed to a hard drive. It is based on Slackware and SLAX and uses Linux Live Scripts to build the Live CD. SLAMPP is designed to be used as an instant home server. SLAMPP 1.1 was released November 18, 2005. SLAMPPLite 2.0 was released April 11, 2006.
84. SME Server
    http://contribs.org/
    Once known as e-smith, this server and gateway distribution has gone through several owners, including Mitel Networks (where it became SME server), Lycoris and Resource Strategies, Inc. Mitel released version 5.5 of the SME Server on July 3, 2002. As of March 5, 2005 Ruffdogs has taken possession of Contribs.org and is developing a Roadmap for the rebuilding of the Contribs.org community. SME Server 7.0 was released July 1, 2006. SME Server 7.3 was released January 1, 2008.
85. Source Mage GNU/Linux
    http://www.sourcemage.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/sourcemage/
    Source Mage GNU/Linux is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which are referred to as "spells". Sorcery 0.1.3 was released into cvs on March 26, 2002. Source Mage 0.9.6 for PPC and x86 was released March 13, 2006. Stable grimoire v0.23 was released July 21, 2008. Source Mage ISO 0.10.0-test3 was released August 11, 2008. Stable Sorcery 1.14.2 was released October 6, 2008.
86. StartCom Linux
    http://www.startcom.org/
    StartCom Ltd. is based in Eilat, Israel, offering Linux distributions, service and support. StartCom Linux distributions are based on Red Hat Advanced Server 3 source code, and modified to fit various tasks. StartCom plans to release four flavors of SmartCom Linux: Enterprise Linux, the MultiMedia Edition, the Office Edition and the Developer Edition. The first release was the StartCom Linux Enterprise AS-3.0.0 dated August 2, 2004. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-3.0.6 was released August 29, 2006. The x86_64 edition of 4.0.0 was released May 27, 2005. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-4.0.5 was released November 25, 2007. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.2 was released June 11, 2008. StartCom MultiMedia Edition ML-5.0.6 (Kessem) was released October 31, 2007. StartCom MultiMedia Edition ML-5.0.7 (Kessem) Update RC1 was released January 15, 2008.
87. Syllable
    http://web.syllable.orgpages/index.html
    Server edition
    The Syllable project creates a family of operating systems that form a network platform. Syllable Desktop is a complete desktop operating system that is exceptionally powerful, fast, and easy to use. It has its own kernel, file system, GUI, and applications. Syllable Desktop is largely POSIX.1 compliant and uses many of the GNU utilities. Syllable Server is a server operating system built to be similar to Syllable Desktop, but on the Linux kernel. It is small and efficient and especially suited for virtualisation, both for running as small guest systems on another host and as a small host platform for running other guest systems. Syllable joins the list with the release of Syllable Server 0.3, dated September 12, 2008.
88. T2
    http://www.t2-project.org/
    T2 is a flexible open source System Development Environment or Distribution Build Kit. T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with bleeding edge technology. Currently the Linux kernel is normally used, but there are plans to expand to Hurd, OpenDarwin and OpenBSD, and more. T2 started as a community driven fork from the ROCK Linux Project with the aim of creating a decentralized development and clean a framework for spin-off projects and customized distributions. Live CD 2.2.0-beta was released May 21, 2005. T2 2.1.1 "lychee punch" was released January 14, 2006. The T-Resc target provides a tiny rescue system based on uClibC and K-drive Xvesa/Xfb for minimal size, released January 20, 2007. T2 6.0.3 "Spring Fever" was released March 28, 2007. T2 SDE 7.0-rc2 "autumn leaves" was released November 12, 2007.
89. tinysofa
    http://www.tinysofa.org/
    tinysofa classic server
    tinysofa is an enterprise grade operating system based on the Linux kernel. Optimized for i586 and up, tinysofa aims to be stable, secure, well-supported, easily managed and free. Trustix Secure Linux was used as a base for tinysofa. Version 1.0 was released April 29, 2004. tinysofa enterprise server v2.0 Update 1 (Odin) was released February 21, 2005. tinysofa classic server (Ceara) 2.0 Update 6 was released October 17, 2006. Trustix Secure Linux 3.0.5 was released March 6, 2007.
90. Tomahawk Desktop
    http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/
    Singapore based Tomahawk Computers was launched in April 2005 with the goal of creating a modular operating system, in which most components are open source packages, and also incorporating in-house and third-party proprietary software. Currently the Tomahawk Desktop Lite and the Tomahawk Desktop Standard have been release. Yet to come are the Tomahawk Desktop Professional and the Tomahawk Server. Tomahawk Desktop 1.1 was released March 1, 2006.
91. Ultima Linux
    http://www.ultimalinux.com/
    http://ultima-inet.kicks-ass.org/ultimalinux/
    Ultima Linux is a Slackware-based system that aims to be fast, powerful, stable, and secure, for Intel-compatible computers. Ultima Linux 4-SP1 was released September 24, 2005. Ultima Linux 8.3 was released January 7, 2007. Ultima Linux 8.4 was released September 30, 2008.
92. Univention Corporate Server (UCS)
    http://www.univention.de/ucs.html
    Univention GmbH offers a range of Linux-based products and services, including the Univention Corporate Server, Groupware Server and Corporate Desktop. This entry was added July 12, 2006.
93. Voltalinux
    http://www.sicurezzarete.com/voltalinux/
    Voltalinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware GNU/linux and the pkgsrc package system from NetBSD. This project aims to deliver a prebuilt distribution with the clean design of Slackware and the availability of about 5400 ports (packages) ready to install. Version 1.0 was released June 9, 2006. Version 2.1 was released June 9, 2008.
94. Webfish Linux
    http://webfish-linux.sourceforge.net/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/webfish-linux/
    Webfish Linux is a small, stripped down Linux distribution based on GNU source packages. Webfish is built with the more experienced user in mind and is aimed at small, fast, secure server and workstation systems with a minimum of installed packages. The initial release of Webfish Linux, version 0.9b, was released June 20, 2002. Version 2.0pre3 was released on April 21, 2004. The Webfish Linux Firewall-1 branch released its initial verion, 1.1, on July 24, 2002. Fishwall 1.2 was released August 27, 2002. Webfish-2.0pre3 was released April 15, 2004.
95. White Box Linux
    http://whiteboxlinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/wbel/
    White Box Linux is an effort to rebuild Red Hat's Enterprise product from source, including only Free/Open source software. The first set of Release Candidate ISO images were released November 17, 2003. Version 4.0 was released May 6, 2005. Version 4 Respin 2 was released June 20, 2007.
96. Xline
    http://www.xline.fr/
    Xline is a European distribution of Linux, an advanced operating system based on the GNU/Linux core with many additional packages. It is compatible with the architectures x86 (included Pentium and Athlon), amd64 (included Opteron, Athlon 64 and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98, UltraSPARC and PowerPC. Development is open to everyone; developers, testers, translators, etc. GNOME is the default desktop, at least in the initial development of Xline. Xline joins the list March 16, 2005.
97. X/OS Linux
    http://www.xoslinux.org/
    X/OS Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution for business and enterprise users. It's based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and the company offers long term availability of security updates and software enhancements. X/OS Linux 3 was updated October 7, 2004 to include updates from RHEL3 update 3. X/OS Linux 5.1 was released January 1, 2008.
98. YES Linux
    http://www.yeslinux.org/
    YES (YourESale) provides the YES business appliance, an easy-to-use Business in a Box designed specifically for the small businesses and non-profits to be able compete with the larger businesses. YES Linux, at the core of the appliance, contains the tools needed to create a website, set up email and more. YES Linux joins the list at version 2.0.8, released May 23, 2004. YES Linux 2.2.2 was released September 11, 2005.
99. Yoper
    http://www.yoper.com/
    Yoper (Your Operating System) is a product of Yoper, Ltd., a New Zealand based consulting company. Yoper is a fast and stable operating system for the business user's i868 desktop. Ydesktop-3.2.1 Release Candidate 3 released January 12, 2003. Yoper Ydesktop V2 was released July 12, 2004. Yoper Linux 2.1.0 was released August 25, 2004. Yoper 3.0.1 'TITANIUM' was released October 4, 2007. Yoper 3.1 beta was released April 22, 2008.

    Education

    This is mix of distributions used by educational institutions, and distributions that are designed to be educational to install and use.

100. AbulEdu
     http://www.abuledu.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/abuledu/
     AbulEdu is a Mandrake-based distribution for primary schools. It is currently in French but most of the tools can be translated. An AbulEdu server can handle Mac (netatalk), Windows (samba), GNU/Linux and X terminal (with LTSP) clients. The server acts as a central gateway for Web, mail, and printing, and facilitates the management of classes, pupils, and teachers. Everybody can publish Web pages on an intranet using Apache and all administration tasks are performed using a browser. The result is that a teacher who is not a computer specialist can install and manage a school network. Stable version 1.0.7-II was released May 26, 2003. Version 8.08.0 was released September 4, 2008.
101. Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS)
     http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/beyondlinuxfromscratch/
     Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) is a project with the aim of assisting LFS users to go beyond the base system. It contains a broad range of instrutions for installing and configuring various packages on top of a base LFS system. If you are wondering why you would want an LFS system or what one is, see the entry for LinuxFromScratch below in this list. BLFS 1.0 was released April 28, 2003 under the original BSD License. Version 6.1 (based on LFS 6.1) was released August 20, 2005. BLFS 6.2.0 was released February 14, 2007. BLFS 6.3 was released August 25, 2008.
102. BU Linux
     http://linux.bu.edu/
     Created at/for Boston University, BU Linux is based on Red Hat Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment. They have added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with their setup, and added some applications. BU Linux 2.5 (a.k.a Gigantic) was released August 27, 2002. Fedora-based BU Linux 4.0 (Bossanova) was released July 14, 2004. BU Linux 4.6 (Stormy) was released August 21, 2006.
103. College Linux
     http://www.collegelinux.org/
     CollegeLinux is a Debian based live CD that promises to be a fully capable PHP5, Perl and Ruby web server, pre-loaded with GEdit and Vim for editing scripts with syntax highlighting. College Linux includes tools to back up and restore your web site from a USB pen drive or from your collegelinux.org account. CollegeLinux Live Server is a Debian based live CD, first released July 13, 2006. As soon as you start, it is a fully capable PHP5, Perl and Ruby webserver, preloaded with GEdit and Vim for editing scripts with syntax highlighting.
104. Cross Linux From Scratch
     http://cross-lfs.org/
     Cross Linux From Scratch (CLFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux system entirely from source. Building CLFS teaches you how to make a cross-compiler and the necessary tools, to build a basic system on a different architecture. For example you would be able to build a Sparc toolchain on an x86 machine, and utilize that toolchain to build a Linux system from source code. CLFS-1.0.0 "Bender" was released September 26, 2006.
105. Debian-Jr.
     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
     This is an internal project to make Debian an OS that children of all ages will want to use. Our initial focus will be on producing something for children up to age 8. Once we have accomplished this, our next target age range is 7 to 12. By the time children reach their teens, they should be comfortable with using Debian without any special modifications.
106. Eagle Linux
     http://www.safedesksolutions.com/eaglelinux/
     Eagle Linux is distributed as a how-to manual that walks the user through the steps necessary to create a customized live CD distribution. Eagle Linux can be downloaded in ISO format as well (as of version 2.2). Eagle Linux announced version 1.0 on November 2, 2002. The distribution was removed from our list in October 2004, but now it's back at version 2.3, released April 25, 2006.
107. EduLinux
     http://www.edulinux.cl/index.php?id=1&L=1
     http://www.edulinux.cl/
     EduLinux is developed at the Instituto de Informática Educativa in Universidad de La Frontera university and the Chilean Educational Ministry. EduLinux is specially designed for Enlaces Educational Network computing labs. EduLinux 2006 is based on Fedora Core 4 and was released June 27, 2006.
108. eLearnix
     http://freeloaderlinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeloaderlinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/elearnix/
     eLearnix is a free, self contained, Linux operating system that runs from CDROM or Compact Flash card. It creates a desktop environment that will help people learn Linux. The newest version is also Wireless enabled, with a 2.6 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.4, lots of applications, and an install script to install to a dedicated hard drive or a 256MB+ Compact Flash card. Once upon a time a distribution called Embedded Freedom Linux was in the embedded section of this list; version 1 released December 15, 2002. EFL turned into FreeLoader Linux before morphing into eLearnix. eLearnix 2.6.6 was released May 16, 2004.
109. elpicx
     http://www.elearnit.de/live_cds/elpicx/
     elpicx is a live CD Linux system that will help you prepare for the exams of the Linux Professional Institute Certification Program LPIC. elpicx 1.1 Dual-Boot-DVD (based on Knoppix and CentOS) was released October 15, 2007. Supported languages are German and English. elpicx 2.0 Dual-Boot-DVD (based on Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) was released September 25, 2008.
110. Freeduc
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/ofset
     The Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching (OFSET) has produced Freeduc, a Knoppix/Debian-based Linux system with educational software, all on one bootable CDROM. Version 1.1 of the Freeduc CD-ROM was released November 5, 2002. Freeduc-cd 1.5 was released May 15, 2005.
111. Karoshi
     http://karoshi.linuxgfx.co.uk/
     Karoshi is a server operating system designed for schools. Karoshi provides a simple graphical interface that allows easy installation, setup and maintenance of your network. Karoshi is based on PCLinuxOS. Version 5.1.3 was released June 11, 2007. Karoshi Beta 6.0 was the current version July 14, 2008.
112. kmLinux
     http://www.lernnetz-sh.de/kmlinux/
     kmLinux is developed by the [German] national education server Schleswig-Holstein in co-operation with the association free software and education. It's a complete Linux system for the personal computer, which can be installed easily. Web site in German. Version 5.1 was released December 7, 2004.
113. Linux From Scratch
     http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxfromscratch/
     Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system using the LFS book. The web site also contains links to other resources such as mailing lists, mailing list archives, newsgroups, search engine, faq and more. Released under the original BSD License. Development version 3.2-rc2 was released February 27, 2002. Stable version 3.3 was released April 7, 2002. LFS-6.2 was released August 4, 2006. LFS LiveCD x86-6.2-2 was released August 15, 2006. LiveCD Version x86-6.2-3 was released September 10, 2006. LFS 6.3 was released August 28, 2007. LFS LiveCD 6.3 was released September 1, 2007. LFS LiveCD 6.3-r2145, for x86 and x86_64 architectures, was released December 30, 2007.
114. LormaLINUX
     http://linux.lorma.edu/
     LormaLINUX is Lorma Colleges' very own Linux Distribution that has been optimized and customized to meet the needs of educational institutions and its students. It is a full-featured Operating System specifically created for ease of installation, ease-of-use and functionality. LORMALinux 4, based on Fedora, was released December 9, 2003. LormaLinux 2005 beta 2 was released February 21, 2005. Lormalinux Web/MySQL Server Slackware Edition Beta 1 was released March 2005. Lormalinux LTSP-Server Slackware Edition Beta 2 was released April 29, 2005.
115. Scientific Linux
     http://www.scientificlinux.org/
     Scientific Linux is a free community project that rebuilds the source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and adds a handful of enhancements. Several scientific laboratories and universities in the United States, Switerland, and other countries are involved in this project. There are some sites that have tweaked the base distribution a bit further, like CERN Linux and Fermi Linux. Scientific Linux 3.0.4 Cern - i386 and x86_64 was released February 11, 2005. SL Fermi LTS v3.0.4 was released February 22, 2005. Scientific Linux Live CD 5.0 was released for i386 and x86_64 on May 25, 2007. Scientific Linux 5.1 - i386 & x86_64 - was released January 16, 2008. Scientific Linux 5.1 Live CD and DVD (32bit and 64bit) was released February 19, 2008. Scientific Linux 5.2 - i386 & x86_64 - was released June 26, 2008. Scientific Linux 5.2 Live CD/DVD was released August 15, 2008. Scientific Linux 4.7 - i386 & x86_64 was released September 3, 2008.
116. Skolelinux
     http://www.skolelinux.org/
     English: http://developer.skolelinux.no/projectinfo.html.en
     Skolelinux is a free software solution designed for the resources and needs of schools. It started in Norway, but it has become an international community, and is synonymous with the Debian Edu subproject. Skolelinux pr41 was released November 2, 2003. Skolelinux 1.0 (Venus) update 1 was released November 1, 2004. Debian Edu / Skolelinux 2.0 was released March 15, 2006. Etch-based Debian Edu / Skolelinux 3.0 (terra) was released July 22, 2007. The first maintenance release, v3.0r1, was released December 5, 2007. The first alpha release of a Debian-lenny version is available for testing.
117. Tadpole Linux
     http://www.tadpolelinux.org/
     Tadpole Linux is a live CD distribution aimed toward K-6 elementary school students. It is based on Gentoo and features the KDE desktop.
118. TrinityOS
     http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html#trinityos
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/trinityos/
     TrinityOS is a step-by-step, example-driven HOWTO on building a very functional Linux box with strong security in mind. TrinityOS is well known for its strong packet firewall ruleset, Chrooted and Split DNS (v9 and v , secured Sendmail (8.x), Linux PPTP, Serial consoles and Reverse TELNET, DHCPd, SSHd, UPSes, system performance tuning, the automated TrinityOS-Security implementation scripts, and much more. It was at version 04/08/2003 released April 8, 2003 when added to the list. Version 03/21/04 was released March 21, 2004.
119. tuXlab GNU/Linux
     http://www.tuxlab-os.co.za/
     http://www.tuxlabs.org.za/
     tuXlab GNU/Linux is a derivative of Edubuntu and Xubuntu, used in computer labs in South Africa. An initial public release is expected in early 2007.

     Country-specific

     These may provide support for other languages. Most of the websites listed here will be in the appropriate language for the country of origin.

     Arabia

     This covers Saudi Arabia and other countries where Arabic is spoken.

120. Ojuba Linux
     http://www.ojuba.org/
     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions/LiveCDs#Ojuba_Linux
     Ojuba Linux is an Arabic Fedora-based distribution with packages translated to Arabic/Islamic languages like hijra and minbar. Many packages have been patched to have better Arabic support. Ojuba Linux comes with some third party packages to have multimedia support for proprietary formats and proprietary drivers. This entry was added on September 10, 2008.

     Argentina

121. Ututo-e GNU/Linux
     https://www.ututo.org/
     Ututo-e is a Gentoo-based distribution developed in Argentina. This comes as one CD which contains only Free/Libre software. There are separate CD images for Intel 486, 586, and 686, as well as Athlon MP and XP and Duron. UTUTO XS 2005.1 was released June 20, 2005. UTUTO XS 2007 was released May 28, 2007.

     Austria

122. WIENUX
     http://www.wien.gv.at/ma14/wienux.html
     WIENUX is a Debian-based distribution launched by the City of Vienna. It was announced January 2005, with an initial release in July 2005. Version 1.0 was released in October 2005.

     Bhutan

123. Dzongkha Debian Linux
     http://dzongkha.sourceforge.net/
     in English
     The Dzongkha Localization Project has created a live CD based on Debian and localized into Dzongkha, the official language of Bhutan, a small country located between India and China. An entirely localized GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 was released July 19, 2006. An Etch-based version was released August 28, 2007.

     Brazil

124. APLINUX.com.br Mail server
     http://www.aplinux.com.br/
     APLINUX.com.br Mail Server 2005 is aims to be the server distribution for mail and DNS servers, based on Debian Sarge. It was released June 15, 2005.
125. Console Linux
     http://www.console.com.br/centro.htm
     A general purpose distribution in Portuguese.
126. Dreamlinux
     http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/
     Dreamlinux aims to be a light, modern and functional free OS that runs as a live CD or installed to a hard drive. Dreamlinux Works edition includes plenty of desktop applications and the XGL Edition provides additional eye candy for people with Nvidia cards. It comes with the XFCE desktop environment. The MkDistro tool is included to help people create their own specialized distribution. Dreamlinux Works Edition 2.1 was released September 19, 2006. Dreamlinux 2.2 is the current release. Dreamlinux 2.2 Multimedia GL Edition, with BERYL-AIGLX, was released June 29, 2007. Dreamlinux 3.1 was released April 5, 2008. Dreamlinux 3.5 Rc4 was released October 22, 2008.
127. Epidemic GNU/Linux
     http://www.epidemiclinux.org/
     Epidemic GNU/Linux is an easy-to-use, Debian-based desktop distribution created in Brazil. Epidemic joined the list with the release of version 2.1 (Ice Diamond), May 27, 2008.
128. Kurumin Linux
     http://www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin/
     Kurumin started out as a stripped down Knoppix, but it has since grown into a unique distribution. It can be run as a live CD, or installed to a hard drive. It comes with plenty of documentation written in Portuguese and has many scripts capable of doing all sorts of tasks from installing (hundreds of) programs to mounting pen drives. This entry was added February 25, 2004, at version 2.20. Kurumin 6.1 was released September 7, 2006. Kurumin Light, a stripped-down edition of version 6.1, was released September 24, 2006. Kurumin 7.0 Light was released January 16, 2007. Kurumin 7.0 was released February 22, 2007. Kurumin NG 8.06 Final was released June 17, 2008.
129. Litrix
     http://www.litrixlinux.org/
     Early versions of Litrix were based on Slackware, but now Gentoo is used as a base. Litrix comes as a general purpose live DVD with a choice of desktops. Litrix 8.5 RC1 was released May 12, 2008.
130. SACIX
     http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br/
     SACIX is a Debian-based distribution for Sào Paulo's public computerlabs, the telecentros. This entry was added December 16, 2003.

     Canary Islands

131. mEDUXa
     http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/contenidos/
     infraestructuras/meduxa.html
     mEDUXa is a Free Software GNU/Linux distribution developed for educational purposes that is part of the MEDUSA project. It is based on Kubuntu and conforms to Debian Free Software Guidelines. Version 1.0 was announced November 24, 2006.

     Chile

132. WENDYX
     http://www.decurauma.cl/wendyx/
     WENDYX is a Knoppix-based distribution for the desktop. WENDYX 1.0, released September 22, 2006, is based on Knoppix 5.0-ES.

     China

133. Chinese 2000 Linux
     http://chinese2000.sniic.com/index.php
     Chinese 2000 Linux comes from Hong Kong.
134. Hiweed GNU/Linux
     http://linux.hiweed.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/hiweed/
     Hiweed GNU/Linux is a Chinese Linux distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux. Its features include preconfigured Chinese applications, such as Chinese input method, Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries, and Chinese true-type fonts. The Server edition is a pre-configured Debian-based server with Apache, PHP, MySQL, mail, DNS, and FTP. Hiweed joined the list with the Hiweed Desktop v0.3RC1, released June 29, 2004. Hiweed Desktop v0.55 was released September 25, 2004. The Hiweed LiveCD v0.55 was released October 25, 2004. Hiweed-Debian Desktop 1.0 was released September 19, 2006. Hiweed Linux 2.0beta was released October 10, 2008.
135. Magic Linux
     http://www.magiclinux.org/
     Magic Linux is a Chinese community distribution which uses the RPM package management system and which is optimised for the i686 processor architecture. Magic Linux 2.1 RC3 was released October 13, 2008.
136. Red Flag
     http://www.redflag-linux.com/
     http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html
     Red Flag claims to be the leading Linux OS provider in China. Redflag Linux Desktop 3.2 beta was released August 12, 2002. Version 4.1, based on Asianux 1.0, was released November 6, 2004. The "Workstation" release of 5.0 (based on Asianux 2.0) for i386 and x86_64 processors became available November 11, 2005. Red Flag Linux 6.0 (based on Asianux 3.0) was released October 1, 2007. The Red Flag "Olympic" edition was released August 14, 2008.
137. Sun Wah Linux
     http://www.sw-linux.com/en/scripts/main/index.php
     Sun Wah uses Linux in servers, embedded devices and other products. The compay has joined the Debian Core Consortium. Sun Wah Linux released the RAYS ES, a Debian-based commercial Linux server platform, August 2005. Rays LX 1.5 desktop was released March 29, 2006. Sun Wah Rays 2.0 was released October 10, 2007.
138. ThizLinux
     http://www.thizlinux.com/
     ThizLinux Labratory Ltd., home of the ThizLinux distribution, is based in Hong Kong. Products include Thiz Linux Desktop, Thiz Office, and Thiz Server . All products are localized for Hong Kong users. Entry added August 20, 2002.
139. Tom Linux
     http://www.linuxaid.com.cn/
     Distribution and website are in Chinese.
140. XTeamLinux
     http://www.xteamlinux.com.cn/
     Distribution and website are in Chinese. Version 5.0 was released December 17, 2003.

     Denmark

141. Dappix
     http://tyge.sslug.dk/knoppix/
     Dappix is a Knoppix-based live CD. It uses the Danish language and contains some extra programs and a large number of Danish Linux books released under open licenses.
142. Keldix
     http://keldix.com/
     Keldix is a Linux distribution primarily for the Small business Office and Home Office (SOHO) market. Keldix is a live-dvd built on PCLinuxOS. The current release was 20080329 when this entry was added to the list in August 2008- The 20080329 release is based on PCLinuxOS 2007 with some updates.
143. Polippix
     http://itpol.dk/sager/polippix/polippix-den-politisk-cd-privatlivets-fred/
     Polippix is the Political Linux Distribution of Denmark. It was created to counter the increasing amount of surveillance in Denmark, where the ISP's will soon be required to log a lot of data. The CD has created quite a stir in Denmark during early 2007.

     Egypt

144. Resala Linux
     http://resala.linux-egypt.org/
     The Resala Linux Project is a single CD distribution based on the Fedora Core Project. Its main objectives are: to make an Arabic ready distribution, make it easy for normal users to use Linux in Arabic speaking countries, open the doors for Arabic developers to participate positively in the OSS, to be a test bed for Arabic application and introduce these applications to other main stream distributions. Resala Linux Core 1 was released June 21, 2004.

     France

145. Echelon Linux
     http://echelonlinux.free.fr/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/echelonlinux/
     Echelon Linux is a Knoppix based Linux distribution designed to monitor and to manage your network. It features IDS (intrusion detection system), vulnerability scanning, and services monitoring. Echelon Linux configuration can be defined via a Web interface. Initial version 0.1 was released August 26, 2003. Version 0.2 was released July 16, 2004.
146. PingOO Linux
     http://www.pingoo.org/
     This a Debian based distribution intended for servers. Version 3.0 was released July 24, 2003. Version 3.0.3 was released November 14, 2003.

     Hungary

147. Kiwi Linux
     http://kiwi.startx.ro/
     Kiwi is a modified Ubuntu live CD for the i386 architecture. It includes Romanian and Hungarian localization, multimedia codecs, encrypted DVD support, Flash and Java plugins for Firefox, PPPoE GUI for accessing local internet services (Clicknet and RDS) and write support for NTFS partitions. Kiwi uses the same software repositories as Ubuntu with one additional source added for the handful of artwork related or slightly modified packages. Hence it is easy to switch to and from Ubuntu and all the security and bugfix updates from Ubuntu are getting into Kiwi automatically. Kiwi 7.08, based on Ubuntu 7.04 with packages updated as of August 31, 2007. The Kiwi 7.10 LiveCD for i386 was released October 18, 2007. Kiwilinux 8.04 was released May 1, 2008. Kiwilinux 8.08, released August 29, 2008, is a Desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for the x86 architecture.
148. UHU-Linux
     http://www.uhulinux.hu/
     UHU-Linux is a Linux distribution from Hungary. It is an easily installable, dpkg-based distribution, with fully automatic hardware detection (based partly on Mandrake and other distros). It is primarily aimed at beginners. Version 1.0 was released April 18, 2003. Version 1.1 (Kamion) was released March 2, 2004. Version 2.2 (Eszter) was released November 28, 2004. UHU-Linux 1.2, Office edition, was released March 17, 2005. UHU-Linux 2.1 (Bumm) was released February 1, 2008.

     India

149. Ankur Bangla Live
     http://www.bengalinux.org/
     https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43331
     The Ankur Bangla Project is working toward supporting the Bangla (Bengali) language on the GNU/Linux operating system. The project has created a Morphix-based Live CD with GNOME 2.4, localized into Bangla. Beta 2 of Ankur Bangla Live was released October 8, 2003. Version 1.0 was released December 23, 2003.
150. BOSS
     http://nrcfoss.org.in/
     http://bosslinux.in
     Download
     BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is a Linux distribution developed by the National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software in India. It's based on Debian and made specifically for the Indian environment with a pleasing Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu and Tamil so far) and other packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain. Subsequent versions will support the educational domain as well. BOSS joins the list at verison 1.0 released January 2007. BOSS 3.0 was released September 5, 2008.
151. IT@School GNU/Linux
     http://www.edugrid.ac.in/
     Download
     IT@School GNU/Linux is a customized, single CD distribution developed by the IT@School Project, in association with the Free Software Foundation of India. This Debian/GNOME system a variety of educational software for high school students and their teachers in Kerala, India.
152. PunLinux
     http://punlinux.sourceforge.net/
     PunLinux is localized in the Punjabi dialect.
153. Utkarsh
     http://www.utkarsh.org/
     Utkarsh is general desktop distribution localized in the Gujarati Language. Based on the IndLinux Milan version of Morphix, Utkarsh is live CD distribution. The initial version, 0.1 beta, was released May 27, 2004.

     Iran

154. Karamad
     http://www.karamad.com/
     Karamad means Efficient in Farsi (Persian). Karamad is built at DPI (Data Processing of Iran-ext IBM). The Live CD also functions as an installtion media. It can show and play most sound & video files. Other software includes OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE 3.4, Persian Help, an English to Persian Dictionary, and more.
155. Parsix GNU/Linux
     http://www.parsix.org/
     Parsix GNU/Linux is a live and installation CD based on Kanotix and Debian Sid . It is a complete GNOME-centric desktop. Parsix GNU/Linux supports Persian keyboard and users can switch to Persian (Farsi) with Alt+Shift keys. You can install and use Parsix GNU/Linux as your PC's operating system. Also included is the xFarDic multilingual dictionary and Persian free fonts from the FPF project. Parsix GNU/Linux 0.76 was released February 7, 2006. Parsix GNU/Linux 0.80.1 was released June 19, 2006. Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90r2 "Barry" was released October 5, 2007. Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r1 "Ramon" was released March 13, 2008. Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r2 'Viola' was released October 22, 2008.
156. Sharif Linux
     http://www.farsiweb.ir/wiki/Sharif_Linux
     Sharif Linux is a bilingual English/Persian operating system maintained by Sharif FarsiWeb. It is based on GNU/Linux and is customized for the computing requirements of Iran and the Persian language, specially for enterprise-level and educational uses. The current version of Sharif Linux, version 1.4, includes GNOME 2.10, including Evolution 2.2.3 and Evince 0.4.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, Firefox 1.0.7, FarsiWeb fonts 0.4, Linux kernel 2.6.15, and much more.

     Israel

157. Boten GNU/Linux
     http://www.mpthrill.com/peanut/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/bgl/
     Boten GNU/Linux is intended for home users and provides a fully-localized GNU/Linux environment in Hebrew. It's especially made for those new to Linux, though aimed to please all users, experts and newbies alike. It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series (USB supported) and the GNU C Library version 2.2.5 (libc6 ELF). Boten GNU/Linux could be installed in a UMSDOS partition as well and can run on 386 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines. Version 9.5 h1/i1 was released April 21, 2003.
158. Ehad Linux
     http://ehad.berlios.de/
     Ehad is based on Mandriva Linux. A single installation CD contains a useful assortment of Mandriva-compatible applications designed for Hebrew speakers. Ehad 2006 was released March 26,2006.

     Italy

159. Bad Penguin Linux
     http://www.badpenguin.org/
     An Italian distribution, currently at version 0.99.5.
160. openmamba GNU/Linux
     http://www.openmamba.org/
     openmamba GNU/Linux is a distribution for personal computers (Intel i686-compatible) that can be used on notebooks, desktops and servers. It comes with a plenty of software programs for office, multimedia, internet, games and much more. Created and maintained by mambaSoft, openmamba is now supported by a community of developers and Open Source software fans. openmamba is free software, with roots in the discontinued QiLinux project. It uses APT for RPM and Synaptic as its package management tools. openmamba was added to the list August 25, 2008.

     Japan

161. Berry Linux
     http://yui.mine.nu/berry/
     http://berry.sourceforge.jp/
     Berry Linux is a bootable CD Linux with automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. If you have network devices, auto-configure DHCP and you can use Internet. You will also find OpenOffice, GIMP and other free software applications. Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on the hard disk, but installation is possible. The initial version of Berry Linux 0.01 Beta was released April 13, 2003. Berry Linux is based on Fedora and Knoppix. Version 0.87 was released December 5, 2007.
162. HOLON Linux
     http://www.holonlinux.com/
     HOLON Linux is aimed at mass consumers. It is developed by HOLON Inc. (in Japan). They did a TV commercial, which was (and is) an unprecedented promotion in Japan. Their server version received a "Good Design Award" by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Japan. Their desktop version product includes 2.8GB of commercial and multimedia applications.
163. LASER5
     http://www.laser5.co.jp/
     Originally based on Red Hat Linux.
164. Linux MLD
     http://www.mlb.co.jp/
     There appears to be a full distribution from Media Lab. There is also a mini-distribution, as well as other Linux products. Version 7.0 was released August 14, 2003.
165. MACH BOOT
     http://www.machboot.com/
     MACH BOOT is an experimental CD booting technology with the goal of getting very fast linux CD boot with x48 CD-ROM drive. The record so far, achived September 2007, is 5.68 seconds.
166. Miracle Linux
     http://www.miraclelinux.com/
     Miracle Linux is a high reliability, scalability and availability server OS for the enterprise market, according to MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION, the developer of the distribution. MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION was originally founded by Oracle Corporation Japan. (Currently Oracle Japan owns about 60% of MIRACLE LINUX.) They offer not only "MIRACLE LINUX with Oracle," but also "MIRACLE LINUX for Samba" and "MIRACLE LINUX for PostgreSQL."
167. Momonga Linux
     http://www.momonga-linux.org/
     Momonga Linux is the successor to Kondara. This general purpose distribution is developed mostly by Japanese programmers, but it supports English just as well and the Momonga web site provides English content, together with English-language mailing lists. One nice thing about Momonga is its support for 8 different Japanese input method servers, a selection of which is available directly from the GDM login screen. Best of all, these input servers work nicely even if you choose to keep your user interface in English (or any other language). The first stable release, Momonga Linux 1, was released August 6, 2004. Momonga Linux 4 was released August 19, 2007. Momonga Linux 4 Plus was released February 29, 2008. Momonga Linux 5 was released October 10, 2008.
168. Nature's Linux
     http://www.n-linux.com/
     Nature's Linux was developed by IP Telecom to provide IP network managers with an easy to use operating system that reduces the total cost of ownership of maintaining IP networks. Added to list March 10, 2004. Version 1.3 was released March 23, 2005.
169. Omoikane GNU/Linux
     http://www.omoikane.co.jp/ogl.html
     This appears to be a Debian based distribution translated to Japanese.
170. Plamo Linux
     http://www.linet.gr.jp/~kojima/Plamo/
     This is a Slackware based distribution. Plamo 4.0 was released June 25, 2004. Plamo 4.2 was released April 1, 2006. Plamo-4.5 was released October 16, 2008.
171. Vine Linux
     http://www.vinelinux.org/index-en.html
     http://www.vinelinux.org/index.html
     "The Supreme Linux Distribution with Integrated Japanese Environment for Your Desktop PCs and Notebooks." Multiple platforms seem to be supported. Vine Linux 2.5 was released April 15, 2002. Vine Linux 3.2 was released September 17, 2005. Vine Linux 4.1 was released February 22, 2007. Vine 4.2 was released December 25, 2007.

     Korea

172. Haansoft Linux
     http://www.haansoftlinux.com/
     Haansoft is an Asianux partner, offering both server and desktop distributions localized in Korean. Haansoft Linux 2006 Workstation was released March 2006.
173. WOWLinux
     http://www.wowlinux.com/
     The current WOWLinux release appears to be dated May 26, 2005.

     Nepal

174. NepaLinux
     http://www.nepalinux.org/
     NepaLinux is a live CD it can also be installed on the hard drive. The work for the installation process has been facilitated through the European Commission supported Bhasha Sanchar Project which is led by the Open University (UK). The first version features a 2.6.12 Linux kernel and a GNOME desktop localized in Nepali and lots more Free Software, released December 19, 2005. NepaLinux 2.0 was released June 20, 2007.

     Netherlands

175. MCNLive
     http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/
     MCNLive is a Mandriva-based live CD developed by MandrivaClub in the Netherlands. A graphical wizard is included to put MCNLive on a USB Stick to run it in LiveUSB mode. The current version, MCNLive-Leuven released April 24, 2006, is based on Mandriva Linux 2006 and enriched with upgrades. MCNLive Cherbourg (based on Mandriva Linux 2007) was released November 18, 2006. MCNLive-VirtualCity was released February 4, 2007. MCNLive "Delft" Final was released May 6, 2007. MCNLive "Toronto" was released May 22, 2007.
176. Nonux
     http://www.nnlinux.com/
     Nonux is a Slackware-based GNU/Linux distribution with Dropline GNOME and several key applications localized in Dutch. It's available as a Live CD and can be installed to a hard drive. Nonux CD v2.3 was released March 15, 2006. Version 4.4 was released April 10, 2008. Nonox 4.4 is also available in an English edition.

     Peru

177. TumiX
     http://www.softwarelibre.org.pe/
     TumiX is a Peruvian Linux distribution based on Slackware and SLAX. It provides the KDE desktop environment together with a large number of academic, office and multimedia applications. The distribution is targeted at colleges, universities and Peruvian educational institutions in order to help teaching and understanding GNU/Linux and to spread the use of Free Software in Peru. Tumix is an initiative of the Peruvian Community of Free Software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. Version 0.9 is the project's first public release; it is based on Slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.6.10, X.Org 6.8.2, KDE 3.4.0, and more; dated June 23, 2005.

     Philippines

178. Bayanihan
     http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph/
     Bayanihan Linux is a single-CD, desktop-oriented, Debian-based distribution developed in the Philippines. BL Server 2006 was released July 22, 2006. The fourth version of Bayanihan Linux was released March 26, 2007.

     Poland

179. Pingwinek GNU/Linux
     http://home.gna.org/pingwinek/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/pingwinek/
     Pingwinek is a Linux distribution made in Poland. The main desktop is GNOME 2.2. It supports only Polish and English languages. Pingwinek joins the list at version 0.23, released May 22, 2003. Version 1.0-pre3 was released February 3, 2006.
180. PLD
     http://www.pld-linux.org/
     http://livecd.pld-linux.org/
     old
     PLD is a Linux distribution made mainly in Poland and by Poles, with documentation and mailing list available in English and Polish. PLD, which stands for PLD Linux Distribution, provides two managers for its RPM-based packages; a clone of Debian apt and its own poldek. The PLD Linux team released the first official stable version on November, 22, 2002. There is also a PLD Live CD and PLD Rescue CD. PLD 2.0 (Ac) was released April 1, 2007. PLD RescueCD 1.99 was released June 18, 2006. PLD Live 2008.09 was released September 19, 2008.

     Portugal

181. Alinex
     http://www.alinex.org/
     Alinex is the product of a partnership between Junta de Extremadura in Spain and the University of Évora in Portugal. It's a general purpose distribution targeted to the educational system and public administration. Alinex 2.0 beta was available for download when this entry was added, April 30, 2007.
182. Caixa Mágica
     http://www.caixamagica.pt/
     Caixa Mágica was originally based on Debian and SuSE. It has been rewritten and localized in Portuguese. Caixa Mágica was added to list July 8, 2002. Caixa Mágica Desktop 10 Pro was released April 4, 2005. Caixa Mágica 11 was released November 16, 2006. Caixa Mágica 12 was released February 20, 2008.

     Serbia

183. MitraX
     http://www.linkgroupsoftware.com/cms/preview/prikazInformacije.php?
     IDStranica=82&jezik=lat&pretraga=mitrax
     MitraX is a Serbian Live Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. It's small enough to fit on a business-card CD. While its primary audience is system and network administrators, it can be easily used by anyone else. You don't need any experience with Linux in order to use it. MitraX 0.3.1 was the current version in October 2005.

     Slovenia

184. Pingo Linux
     http://www.pingo.org/
     Pingo Linux is a Slovenian Linux distribution intended for a complete home desktop, including office tools, system administration utilities and full multimedia support. The packaging is RPM based. Historically, it started as an offspring of Red Hat Linux and is currently based on Fedora Core. The distribution is intensively localized in the Slovenian language and provides the KDE desktop as the default environment. Pingo is installed as second boot system on computers provided by the Ministry of education in Slovenian schools, giving it a base of 12,000 users. The distribution is accompanied with printed books aimed at the novice user. From its beginnings in 1999, this free distribution regularly releases one to two upgrades per year. Pingo activists are organizing well attended Install Fests all over Slovenia. Pingo v4.1 was released October 15, 2005.

     South Africa

185. Impi Linux
     http://www.impi.org.za/
     Impi Linux is a South African company that develops, releases, supports and maintains the ImpiLinux operating system. It is also the official representative of Ubuntu and the official Ubuntu support provider in Africa. The folks at Impi will build and support customized desktop systems. Impi Linux 7.05 was released May 7, 2007.
186. OpenLab
     http://www.getopenlab.com/
     OpenLab claims to be the oldest African developed GNU/Linux distribution. Started in 2001, the product has built up a reputation for ease-of-use, innovation and user-oriented design. OpenLab was originally developed as a niche solution for the education sector but has since grown into a complete desktop operating system. OpenLab joined the list at version 3.0.5, released May 11, 2004. OpenLab4 (Perdita) was released October 9, 2005. OpenLab 4.Z Beta was released September 8, 2006.

     Spain

187. ASLinux Desktop
     http://www.activasistemas.com/
     Activa Sistemas presents ASLinux Desktop, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian Sarge. Unlike the Debian base, however, ASLinux restricts itself to one application for each task, simplifying the choices faced by users. Version 1.0 was released December 1, 2003. Version 2.0 was released February 10, 2005. ASLinux Desktop 2.0 was released May 31, 2005.
188. Càtix
     http://www.catix.cat/
     http://www.tecnocampus.com/catix/
     Càtix is a Debian-based live DVD designed for speakers of the Catalan language. Version 1.2 was released October 24, 2005. Càtix 1.3 was released June 7, 2007.
189. Linux ESware
     http://www.esware.com/
     Based in Madrid. Box sets are available, with a desktop edition and server edition. Support, classes and other services are available.
190. Guadalinex
     http://www.guadalinex.org/
     Guadalinex is a Debian based distribution for the Andalusia area of Spain. Ubuntu-based Guadalinex 2005 was released October 2005. Version 4.1 was released November 23, 2007. Guadalinex 5.0 RC1 was released September 19, 2008.
191. gnuLinEx
     http://www.linex.org/
     Developed by the Extremadura Regional Government, gnuLinEx is a Debian based distribution, using GNOME. gnuLinEx forms part of a wider regional project which aims at promoting the Information Society in order to improve citizens' quality of life. gnuLinEx2004 was released in August 2004. A "live CD" edition of gnuLinEx 2004 was released October 30, 2004. gnuLinEx 2006 was released June 19, 2006.
192. HispaFuentes
     http://www.hispafuentes.com/
     HispaFuentes is a Red Hat compatible distribution. Version 8.0 contains Ximian 1.4, KDE 2.1, CUPS and much more. Version 9.0 is Debian based, released March 2004.
193. LinEspa
     http://www.linespa.com/
     LinEspa is a product of Linux Español, a Spanish non-profit organization with the objective of promoting the use of Linux in Spain and Latin America. Version 0.22 was released January 8, 2005. LinEspa 0.32 was released February 16, 2006.
194. MoLinux
     http://www.molinux.info/
     MoLinux is a distribution developed by the regional government of Castilla la Mancha in Spain for use in the region's government offices and schools. Early version were based on Debian, and later Progeny. Version 1.2 "Dulcinea", released June 16, 2005 is Ubuntu-based. Version 2.0 (Sancho) was released December 18, 2005. A live CD version of 2.0 was released February 10, 2006. MoLinux 2.2 (Rocinante) Live, based on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1, was released October 3, 2006. Molinux 3.0 (Aldonza) (based on Ubuntu Feisty) was released June 19, 2007. MoLinux 3.2 (based on Ubuntu Gutsy) was released December 2, 2007. Molinux 4.0 Adarga was released June 24, 2008.

     Sweden

195. ExTiX
     http://extix.exton.net/
     http://linux.exton.net/
     ExTiX is a live CD supporting English and Swedish, created by Arne Exton. Arne has created several other Swedish localized live Linux CDs: KNOPPIX-EXTON v3.7, KNOPPIX-EXTON Gnome Version, PCLinuxOS-EXTON p8.1a, Adios-EXTON v4.10 and EXTON-Slack v10.1. ExTiX was at v1.4 when this entry was added April 11, 2005.

     Taiwan

196. B2D Linux
     http://b2d.tnc.edu.tw/
     B2D is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed in Taiwan, with user environment and read/write support for traditional Chinese. Version 20060502 was released May 2, 2006. B2D Linux 20061019 was released October 19, 2006. B2DpureKGB20061226 (2006stable) was released December 26, 2006.
197. Linpus Linux
     http://www.linpus.com/
     Linpus Professional Linux Services started out with an embedded distribution, which was originally based on uClinux. Linpus has branched out and offers a Desktop, Server and Media Center editions as well as the Lite LiveCD. Linpus Linux 9.5 was the current version in February 2008.

     Thailand

198. GrandLinux
     http://www.grandlinux.com/
     GRANDLINUX 5.0 seems to be the most recent version (as of March 2004). They are an IBM Business Partner. Website text in Thai.
199. LinuxTLE
     http://www.opentle.org/
     The OpenTLE (Thai Linux Extension) seems to be a good place for finding open source applications localized in Thai. LinuxTLE 5.5 (Samila) was released February 4, 2004. Linux TLE 5.5 Live CD with Gnome 2.6 was released April 26, 2004. LinuxTLE 9.0 "Hua-Hin" was released February 11, 2008.
200. Phayoune Secure Linux
     http://www.phayoune.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/phayoune/
     Phayoune-Desktop 0.0.11 was the most recent version when it was added to list July 8, 2002. The site appears current as of November 2005, with a firewall, web server, thin clients and embedded Linux products.

     Turkey

201. Pardus
     http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
     http://www.uludag.org.tr/eng/
     Pardus funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Version 1.0 features a KDE 3.5 desktop localized in Turkish. Also available in English, Spanish, German and Dutch. Pardus 2007 was released December 18, 2006. Pardus 2007.2 "Caracal caracal", released July 11, 2007, is available in French, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. Pardus 2007.3 Lynx lynx was released November 19, 2007. Pardus 2008 was released June 29, 2008. Pardus 2008.1 Hyaena Hyaena was released September 15, 2008.

     Vietnam

202. Hacao Linux
     http://hacao.com/
     http://www.hacao.vn/
     Hacao Linux started out as Puppy Linux translated to Vietnamese. The distribution remains lightweight, capable of running on low-end hardware and is entirely localized into Vietnamese.

     Related Projects

203. Arabeyes Project
     http://www.arabeyes.org/
     Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and enthusiasts all over the world.
204. Asianux
     http://www.asianux.com/
     Asianux is a joint effort by Japan's Miracle Linux and China's Red Flag Linux. Korea's Haansoft Inc. joined the project before the 2.0 release. Developed at Oracle's China Development Center in Beijing, the Asianux system is an effort to develop and standardize a common Asian Linux kernel, libraries and packages. The Asianux partnership also acts as a certification body for hardware and software that is intended to run on the new Asian Linux kernel. Asianux partners will use this core for their latest releases, bundling Asianux with localized features for each particular market. Asianux 1.0 was released March 31, 2004. Asianux 3.0 was released September 24, 2007.
205. Chinese Linux Extension
     http://cle.linux.org.tw/
     The CLE website is mostly in Chinese. Localized versions of several distributions are available, along with pointers to sites like LinuxChineseHowto, and Chinese Linux Documentation Project.
206. IndLinux
     http://www.indlinux.org/
     The Indian Linux Project was formed with the goal of creating a Linux distribution that supports Indian Languages at all levels. This Indianisation project will strive to bring the benefits of Information Technology down to the Indian masses. We want to make technology accessible to the majority of India that does not speak English. Efforts are underway in Hindi, Punjabi, Oriya and Telugu, with more teams working on Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil. A Rangoli live cd 1.0 beta was released early in 2006.

     Embedded Distributions

207. 2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux
     http://natld.berlios.de/
     http://www.angelfire.com/linux/floorzat/2diskXwin.htm
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/natld/
     2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux is provided by Mungkie Associates Inc., as a demonstration of the company's embedded appliance development environment. Disk 1 provides a minimal Linux base system with an X system implementation on a second disk. The 2-disk system is free for personal use, but restrictions apply to commercial usage. Default version 1.4rc802 was released November 6, 2002. Source code version 1.2.12 was released June 16, 2004. 1disk version 1.2.13 binary was released October 12, 2004. Version 1.5 was released March 15, 2005.
208. Alpine Embedded Linux
     http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/
     Alpine is a modular embedded Linux distribution for use in small appliances such as routers, VPN gateways, and more. The name "Alpine" stands for A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine. Gentoo-based Alpine can boot from floppy/usb/cf/cd/whatever, packages are pulled into RAM, and everything runs from RAM, just like the distributions found in LEAF. This makes for very fast application load times, and provides added security if the boot media is write-protected or removed. Alpine 1.7.19 (development), released July 2, 2008, was the current version when this entry was added (August 25, 200 .
209. Ångström
     http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/
     Ångström was started by a small group of people who worked on the OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus and OpenSimpad projects to unify their effort to make a stable and userfriendly distribution for embedded devices like handhelds, set top boxes and network-attached storage devices and more.
210. Bifrost
     http://bifrost.slu.se/
     English: http://bifrost.slu.se/index.en.html
     The Bifrost Network Project aims to find stability, performance, filter capabilities, administration, computer security, scalability and development possibilities of a Linux based streamlined router/firewall system. The hardware is basically a standard PC with two (or more) network interfaces (using preferably the Intel Tulip chip or an e1000 Gigabit card) and a 45 or 48 MB flash disk. The operating system is a modified, minimal and optimized Linux distribution, with the kernel configured for firewalling and routing. The filter which controls the firewall security policy, is part of the kernel code and can be configured via ipfwadm, ipchains or iptables.
211. Blue Cat Embedded Linux
     http://www.lynuxworks.com/embedded-linux/embedded-linux.php
     BlueCat Embedded Linux from LynuxWorks is an implementation of Linux for a wide range of embedded systems. Version 5.0 was released January 20, 2004. September 2008: Blue Cat no longer uses version numbers. It does appear to be up-to-date and well supported.
212. DIET-PC
     http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/diet-pc/
     DIET-PC (DIskless Embedded Technology Personal Computer) is a Do-It-Yourself open source thin client software kitset, allowing IT professionals to construct generic- or special-purpose thin clients using commodity x86 PC hardware. DIET-PC is based on an embedded Linux O/S running entirely in RAM, loaded over the network via TFTP. The O/S is fully self-contained and - except for the basic service protocol - communicates with its environment only by means of industry standard IP protocols, such that the Linux nature of the O/S is largely hidden from and irrelevant to the user. Technologies used include Etherboot, Linux kernel with ext2 initrd, devfs, Busybox, XFree86, RDesktop, TightVNC and Citrix ICA Client. An alpha version was released May 10, 2002. Version 2 was released April 4, 2005.
213. ELinOS
     http://www.elinos.com/
     From German firm SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GMBH, ELinOS is an embedded Linux distribution for Industrial Applications. ELinOS v2.0 includes PowerPC-Support, Real-Time Extension RTAI, Linux Kernel v2.4 and more.
214. Embedded Debian
     http://www.emdebian.org/
     EmDebian.org. Embedded Debian is a project to make Debian GNU/Linux a mainstream choice for embedded projects. Embedded Debian tries to strip Debian down to be a much smaller system whilst keeping all the good things.
215. Franki/Earlgrey Linux
     http://www.angelfire.com/linux/wills/stubs.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/freglx/
     Franki and Earlgrey Linux are proof-of-concept source-based Linux distributions whose configuration is controlled by a loosely-knit suite of scripts designed to produce utility toolchains, known as STUBS. Based around the uClibc library and busybox utilities, Earlgrey Linux boots from floppy or CD with iso- or sys-linux and hosts enough utilities in 4MB of RAM to replicate the ramdisk content on hard disk or run its own ('egp') installer to do the same; "Franki" Linux is merely the codename for the finished result. The first version we know of was 0.3.16, released Sepember 5, 2003. Version 0.7.1pre2 was released October 3, 2004.
216. KaeilOS
     http://www.kaeilos.com/
     http://www.klinux.org/
     Koan Software
     KaeilOS (formerly Klinux) is an Italian GNU/Linux embedded distribution for industrial applications from Koan Software. It includes an integrated development environment (IDE) and debugging instruments for embedded and real time systems. KaeilOS is based on kernel 2.6.15 and 2.4.31. It supports the processor families x86, ARM, PPC. Version 2.0 was released in July 2004. The current version of KaeilOS is 2.4.0.
217. LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall)
     http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/leaf/
     LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) is an easy-to-use embedded Linux system that is meant for creating network appliances for use in small office, home office, and home automation environments. There are several branches of LEAF.
218. Linux/Coldfire
     http://www.uclinux.org/ports/coldfire/
     Here is a site dedicated to making available a Linux based system for the Motorla ColdFire processor family. The core is a port of the Micro-controller Linux (uC-Linux) kernel to the ColdFire processors. Additionally there is a growing number of ports of GNU/Linux utilities to the ColdFire. It is currently possible to build stable, complete, fully functional, embedded, Linux systems using uClinux/ColdFire. uClinux/Coldfire uses the 2.6 kernel as of February 18, 2004. UClinux/Coldfire fully supports the Linux kernel 2.6 series as of October 14, 2005.
219. Mamona
     http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/
     Mamona is an embedded Linux distribution for ARM EABI. The main goal of Mamona Project is to offer a completely open source alternative/experimental SDK package and flash image generation process for the Maemo Platform using only free and open source components. Mamona 0.1 was released November 15, 2007.
220. MIZI
     http://www.mizi.com/
     MIZI is a Korean company that uses mobile Linux in a variety of products and digital devices. This company has been developing comprehensive Linux solutions for embedded devices for many years. This entry was updated February 6, 2008. MIZI was aquired by Wind River, announced August 28, 2008.
221. MontaVista Linux
     http://www.hardhatlinux.com/
     http://www.mvista.com/
     Once known as Hard Hat Linux this embedded distribution from MontaVista, Inc., provides a cross development platform and a set of tool kits designed specifically for embedded solutions along with a Linux platform. A long list of microprocessors are supported. Renamed MontaVista Linux with the release of v2.1 on January 29, 2002. MontaVista Linux now comes in Professional Edition, Carrier Grade Edition, and Consumer Electronics Edition. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 4.0 was released May 16, 2005. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0 was released April 4, 2007. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 5.0 was released November 21, 2007. MontaVista Mobilinux 5.0 is the current (as of February 200 version used in phones and other mobile devices.
222. NexusWare
     http://www.pt.com/products/prod_nexusware.html
     NexusWare is a Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL) registered distribution that provides a full operating system on Performance Technologies' hardware platforms, as well as a robust application development environment that is tightly coupled to Performance Technologies' broad range of COTS embedded hardware solutions. Version 12.0 was released June 2007.
223. Openembedded
     http://oe.handhelds.org/
     OpenEmbedded is a full-featured development environment allowing users to target operating systems and complete distributions to a wide variety of (embedded) devices. OpenEmbedded uses compilation and configuration caching at most levels to increase developer productivity.
224. OpenEZX
     http://wiki.openezx.org/
     The OpenEZX project is a collaborative effort to collect information about Motorola's EZX GSM phone platform and run Linux on it.
225. Openmoko
     http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions
     Openmoko distributions are designed to run on various mobile devices, with the primary aim of Openmoko Inc.'s Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner phones. They are similar to Linux distributions; complete operating systems with user applications. You can install any of them on your phone or even have a multiboot system with two distributions installed. Current versions include Om 2007.2 (GTK), Om 2008.8 (Qtopia) and FSO - FreeSmartphone.Org. This entry was added August 15, 2008.
226. Poky
     http://www.pokylinux.org/
     Poky is an embedded Linux build system, distribution and developer environment which builds upon OpenEmbedded technologies. Poky's focus is purely on building stable optimised GNOME Embedded type platforms (X11/Matchbox/GTK+) together with a streamlined system layer and cross development environment. Poky was added to the list with the release of v3.0-blinky on August 1, 2007. Poky 3.1.1 was released June 11, 2008. Poky belongs to OpenedHand which was acquired by Intel, announced August 29, 2008.
227. RTLinux
     http://www.fsmlabs.com/
     FSMLabs makes RTLinux, providing hard real-time solutions.
228. SansaLinux
     http://www.SansaLinux.org
     SansaLinux is port of iPodLinux for the Sandisk Sansa e200 MP3player series. It is useable only with the original e200 series, but not with the V2 models. Sansalinux comes with a bootloader, a 2.4 Linux-kernel, a modified podzilla2 and some podzilla-plugins. It needs no repartitioning of the Sansa-flash. It runs directly from an ext2 loop-filesystem which is stored on the FAT-filesystem. Added to the list April 8, 2008.
229. uClinux
     http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/uclinux/
     The Linux/Microcontroller project is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU). Pronounced "you-see-linux", the name uClinux comes from combining the greek letter "mu" and the english capital "C". "Mu" stands for "micro", and the "C" is for "controller". uClinux was first ported to the Motorola MC68328: DragonBall Integrated Microprocessor. The first target system to successfully boot is the 3Com PalmPilot using a TRG SuperPilot Board with a custom boot-loader created specifically for our Linux/PalmPilot port. Version 20020701 was initially released on Freshmeat on July 16, 2002. V. test-20051209 was released January 4, 2006. uClinux v.20070130 was released January 30, 2007.
230. Voyage Linux
     http://linux.voyage.hk/
     Wiki
     Voyage Linux is Debian derived distribution that is best run on a x86-based embedded platforms such as WRAP and Soekris 45xx/48xx boards. It can also run on low-end x86 PC platforms. Typical installation requires 128MB disk space, although larger storage allows more packages to be installed. Voyage Linux is so small that it is best suitable for running a full-feature firewall, wireless access point, VoIP gateway and network storage device. Voyage Linux joined the list at version 0.3.1 (etch-based), released April 14, 2007. A beta version of the Debian-Lenny based VL0.6 was released September 4, 2008.

     Handhelds/PDAs

231. Familiar (iPAQ)
     http://familiar.handhelds.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/familiar/
     The Familiar Project is composed of a group of loosely knit developers all contributing to creating the next generation of PDA OS. Currently, most development time is geared towards producing a stable, and full featured Linux distribution for the Compaq iPAQ h3600-series of handheld computers, as well as apps to run on top of the distribution. Familiar v0.5.3 was released July 11, 2002. Familiar v0.8.2 was released April 13, 2005. Familiar v0.8.4 was released August 20, 2006.
232. Gentoo For Zaurus
     http://gentooforzaurus.opensistemas.com/
     http://www.opensistemas.com/Gentoo_for_Zaurus.715.0.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentooforzaurus/
     Gentoo For Zaurus is a port of the Gentoo Distribution to the Zaurus PDA, based on Cacko X11 Rom and The Emerde Project. It can be mounted over NFS so no changes to a current configuration are needed. It includes a native gcc environment for ARM, the zgcc-3.3.1 cross compiler for the main PC with distcc configured so that the main PC does the actual compiling, and X11 for testing applications. The first public release was version 0.1.1, dated January 6, 2004. Version 0.2.2 was released February 2, 2004.
233. Linux DA OS
     http://www.linuxda.com/
     More info on LinuxDevices.com
     Empower Technologies makes this embedded OS for the Motorola Dragonball platform, TI's OMAP5912 dual-core processors, and others. LinuxDA powers the PowerPlay brand of PDAs.
234. OpenZaurus
     http://openzaurus.org/
     http://openzaurus.sourceforge.net/
     The OpenZaurus project was aimed at building a kernel and filesystem for the Sharp SL-5000d and SL-5500. Version 2.9.5.5 was released August 8, 2002. After that the project became a Debian based embedded distribution built from source. It is quite similar to other embedded debian-based distributions, such as Familiar for the Ipaq. This is still an open source Linux for the Sharp Zaurus, using the latest available Opie. Ports of OpenZaurus to other PDAs and/or other embedded systems are imminent (as of January 28, 2003). OpenZaurus 3.5.4 was released March 18, 2006.
235. OpenPsion
     http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/
     OpenPsion (formerly PsiLinux) is a project to port Linux to a group of palmtops produced by Psion, and related machines such as the Geofox One. At present, working Linux systems can be installed on any of the Series 5, Series 5MX, Series 5MX-Pro, Revo (Revo+, Mako), and Series 7/netBook machines. Debian 3.1 "Sarge" was released for the Series 7/netBook September 6, 2005.
236. TuxMobil
     http://tuxmobil.org/
     TuxMobil is a good site for all things Linux on mobil computers, including handhelds, laptops, phones, etc.

     Secured Distributions

237. Adamantix
     http://www.adamantix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/adamantix/
     Adamantix, formerly known as TrustedDebian, aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. To accomplish this, the project will use currently available security solutions for Linux (like kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs and techniques) and knit these together to a highly secure Linux platform. The initial release, version 0.9, became available March 18, 2003. Version 1.0.4 was released August 17, 2004.
238. Annvix
     http://annvix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/annvix/
     Annvix is a Mandrakelinux-based secure Linux server distribution that aims to provide a small, easy-to-use server with high security. Features include a secure kernel, gcc with SPP stack protection patches, and secure defaults for all services. It also includes unique features such as running all services under DJB's daemontools and auditing tools such as rsec (msec's baby brother), tripwire, snort, and chkrootkit. Initial version 1.0-CURRENT alpha1 was released June 3, 2004. Annvix 3.0-RELEASE (Freya) was released December 30, 2007.
239. Arudius
     http://arudius.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/arudius/
     Arudius is a live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware and Zenwalk. It contains an extensive set of software tools used by IT security professionals for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis. Its goal is to include the most complete set of useful security tools and still maintain a small footprint. Verion 0.1 was released November 4, 2005. Version 0.5 was released February 7, 2006.
240. Astaro Security Linux
     http://www.astaro.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/
     A firewall and VPN product. Available for free download but not completely open source. Version 2.033 was released April 25, 2003. Sun Cobalt: v 2.033 April 28, 2003. Stable 4.x (i386): v 4.031 was released February 28, 2006. Stable 5.x: 5.211 was released March 21, 2006. ASL v6.201 was released April 6, 2006. ASG V7.1 GA was released December 3, 2007. ASG V7.200 BETA was released March 26, 2008.
241. BackTrack
     http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
     BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Penetration Testing live Linux distributions, Auditor Security Linux and WHAX. BackTrack is based on SLAX (Slackware) and provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, and so on. The merger was introduced February 5, 2006. BackTrack v.1.0 Final was released May 26, 2006. BackTrack 2.0 Final was released March 7, 2007. BackTrack 3 was released June 19, 2008.
242. Castle
     http://castle.altlinux.ru/
     Castle is a server distribution from the ALT Linux Team in Russia. Installation instructions and some other documentation is available in English.
243. CensorNet
     http://www.censornet.com/
     CensorNet is a Debian-based Linux distribution must be installed on a dedicated machine with a minimum of two Ethernet adapters. The Console Configuration Tool is used to configure system settings and perform system maintenance, and the Web Administration Tool designed for day to day control of users, workstations and filtering rules. CensorNet 3.3 was the current version in April 2005.
244. Debian Hardened
     http://www.debian-hardened.org/doku.php
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/debianhardened
     Debian Hardened is a custom Debian distribution aimed at bringing high security to Debian GNU/Linux, with hardening features such as a hardened kernels and packages (Stack Smashing Protector + PIE compiled), the DHKP and linux entropy pool enhancements (and the LTRNG) for strong cryptography. Ubuntu Hardened is a related project.
245. Endian Firewall Community
     http://www.endian.it/en/
     Endian Firewall Community is a "turn-key" Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance. The software has been designed with "usability in mind" and is very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. This distribution was added to the list at version 2.1, released January 9, 2007. Endian Firewall Community 2.1.2 was released July 10, 2007. Version 2.2 RC2 was released July 25, 2008.
246. Engarde Secure Linux
     http://www.engardelinux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/esl/
     EnGarde is a secure distribution of Linux engineered from the ground-up to provide organizations with the level of security required to create a corporate Web presence or even conduct e-business on the Web. It can be used as a Web, DNS, e-mail, database, e-commerce, and general Internet server where security is a primary concern. Version 1.2 (Professional) was released June 28, 2002. Version 1.3 (Community Edition) was released April 28, 2003. EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.21 was released October 7, 2008.
247. Euronode
     http://euronode.org/
     The Euronode Project provides a set of distributions, originally based on Debian GNU/Linux Woody Release 2. Three distributions are available: Euronode Minimal Woody, Euronode Simple Firewall, and Euronode Advanced Firewall. The Debian Sarge based Euronode 6.1, with 2.6.13 Linux kernel, was released January 10, 2006.
248. FIRE
     http://biatchux.dmzs.com/
     http://fire.dmzs.com/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/biatchux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/fire-biatchux/
     FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment. The initial version (v.0.1.0.5b) was released February 28, 2002. FIRElite v0.2b was released August 19, 2002. FIRE 0.4a was released May 14, 2003.
249. Helix
     http://www.e-fense.com/helix/
     Helix is a customized version of the Knoppix Live Linux CD with many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics. Helix 1.7 was released March 7, 2006. Helix 1.9E was released July 31, 2007. Helix 2008R1 (2.0) was released September 22, 2008. Helix 2008 is based on Ubuntu.
250. Inquisitor
     http://www.inquisitor.ru/
     Inquisitor is an open-source hardware testing and certification system, suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and available in both serverless Live CD/DVD format and server-controlled network boot production system. It hails from Russia like its parent OS, Alt Linux. This entry was added August 18, 2008. Inquisitor v3.0 was released July 20, 2008.
251. IPCop Firewall
     http://www.ipcop.org/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop
     IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distro. It will be geared towards home and SOHO users. The difference with existing firewalls is that the IPCop interface will be very user-friendly and task-based. IPCop v0.1.1 was released January 17, 2002. Version 1.4.20 was released July 22, 2008.
252. Knoppix-STD
     http://www.knoppix-std.org/
     STD (security tools distribution) is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools on a Live Linux CD. Its sole purpose in life is to put as many security tools at your disposal with as slick an interface as it can. The initial version, Knoppix-STD 0.1 CD, was released January 23, 2004.
253. NetSecL
     http://netsecl.com/
     NetSecL is a Slackware based distribution with Grsecurity, chroot hardening, /tmp race prevention, extensive auditing and many other security features. Many scanners and sniffers are included to help keep your system secure. NetSecL joins the list with v2.1, released July 16, 2007. NetSecL 2.3 was released September 30, 2008.
254. Network Security Toolkit (NST)
     http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/
     http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=602238
     The Network Security Toolkit (NST), is a bootable ISO live CD is based on Fedora Core 2. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms. NST also makes an excellent tool to help one with all sorts of crash recovery troubleshooting scenarios and situations. Version 1.2.3 was released September 5, 2005. Version 1.8.0 was released June 28, 2008.
255. nUbuntu
     http://www.nubuntu.org/
     nUbuntu aims to create an Ubuntu-derived distribution with a focus on security testing. The initial version, nUbuntu - SP2, was released January 6, 2006. nUbuntu Live was released January 17, 2006. nUbuntu 6.06 was released June 26, 2006.
256. OpenNA Linux
     http://www.openna.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/opennalinux/
     The OpenNA Linux Operating System provides a highly secure and fast Linux server. Dedicated for mission critical tasks in the servers domain, the OpenNA Linux operating system provides a secure, strong, reliable and fast solution. A beta4 development version was released July 22, 2002. Release Candidate 2 was released March 24, 2003. Version 1.0 was released November 11, 2003. The change log for the development branch of OpenNA Linux 2.0 looks at changes from January 2004/January 2005.
257. Openwall GNU/Linux
     http://www.openwall.com/Owl/
     "Owl" (or "Openwall GNU/*/Linux") is a security-enhanced operating system with Linux and GNU software as its core, compatible with other major distributions of GNU/*/Linux. It is intended as a server platform. The Owl 0.1-prerelease was released on May 11, 2001. Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) 2.0 was released February 16, 2006.
258. Operator
     http://www.ussysadmin.com/operator/
     Operator is a complete Linux (Debian) distribution that runs from a single bootable CD and runs entirely in RAM. The Operator contains an extensive set of Open Source network security tools that can be used for monitoring and discovering networks. This virtually can turn any PC into a network security pen-testing device without having to install any software. Operator also contains a set of computer forensic and data recovery tools that can be used to assist you in data retrieval on the local system. The 3.3 version of Operator starts from scratch with a basic Debian install to which KNOPPIX functionality is added afterwards. The current version was 3.3.20 when this entry was added, March 15, 2006.
259. ProTech
     http://www.techm4sters.org/
     The Techm4sters team has created ProTech, a security distribution for networks administrators, pentesters and other forensic analysis. It's a live CD based on Ubuntu Feisty. The first beta was made available for download February 13, 2007, with a final version expected in April 2007 when the Ubuntu Feisty release is finalized.
260. redWall Firewall
     http://www.redwall-firewall.com/
     redWall is a bootable CD-ROM Firewall. It's goal is to provide a feature rich firewall solution, with a web interface for all the logfiles generated. Version 0.5.5 was released May 8, 2005. redWall Firewall version 2.2.3 was released October 31, 2006.
261. Securepoint Firewall & VPN Server
     http://www.securepoint.cc/
     The Securepoint Firewall & VPN server is a high end firewall and VPN solution for protecting your Internet gateway. Securepoint can also be used with existing firewalls and to protect interconnected locations or divisions and lets you create and manage VPN tunnels. Languages supported: English, German, Russian, and Korean.
262. Sectoo Linux
     http://www.sectoo.org/
     Sectoo Linux is a live CD based on Gentoo, with tools related to network security. It does port scanning, packet sniffing, OS fingerprinting, intrusion detection, and much more. A pre-alpha version was released August 4, 2006.
263. SmoothWall
     http://www.smoothwall.org/
     SmoothWall was first released to the world in July 2000 as a hardened internet firewall device. Products include Smoothwall Server and Smoothwall GPL, renamed Smoothwall Express. Smoothwall GPL 1.0 was released December 10, 2002. Smoothwall Express 2.0 was released December 17, 2003. SmoothWall Express 3 Alpha was released September 1, 2005. SmoothWall Express 2.0 SP1 (stable update) was released December 22, 2006. SmoothWall Express 3.0 "Polar" was released August 22, 2007.
264. ThePacketMaster
     http://www.thepacketmaster.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/tpmsecurityserver/
     https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpm-secserver/
     ThePacketMaster Linux Security Server is a CD-based security auditing tool that boots and runs penetration testing and forensic analysis tools. It is handy for security auditors. Some tools included are nessus, ethereal, The Coroner's Toolkit, chntpw, and minicom. It includes modules for any Linux 2.4.20 SCSI driver. Initial version 1.0.0 was released July 5, 2003. Version 1.2.1 was released January 30, 2004.
265. Tin Hat
     http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinhat
     Tin Hat is a Linux distribution derived from hardened Gentoo which aims to provide a very secure, stable and fast Desktop environment that lives purely in RAM. Tin Hat boots from CD, or optionally a pen drive, but it is not a LiveCD. It does not mount any file system from CD via unionfs or otherwise. Rather, Tin Hat is a massive image (approx. 2.3GB) which loads into tmpfs upon booting. One pays the prices of long boot times (5 minutes off CD, 2 minutes off pen drives), but the advantage afterwords is that there are no delays going back to the CD when starting applications. Needless to say, this has some rather extreme advantages and disadvantages, making Tin Hat a rather particular distribution. Tin Hat was added to the list with the release of 20080830.
266. Trustix Secure Linux
     http://www.trustix.org/
     Trustix Secure Linux, briefly known as Tawie Server Linux, is for servers with a focus on security and stability. TSL now belongs to the Comodo Group. TSL 3.0 was released July 6, 2005. The Trustix Enterprise Firewall 4.6 was released August 17, 2005. Trustix Secure Linux 3.0.5 was released March 6, 2007. Comodo has announced that it will discontinue all distribution, updates and direct support for Trustix Secure Linux effective December 31, 2007. The user support forum will continue to remain online throughout 2008.

     Special Purpose/Mini

     All the distributions listed in this category are specialized for a particular task. Most of them are small, since limiting the functionally can also limit the size. However there are some Special Purpose distributions listed here that are not small.

267. 64 Studio
     http://64studio.com/
     64 Studio is developing a collection of software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and Intel's EM64T chips). It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialized package selection and lots of other customizations. 64 Studio 1.1.0 was released January 11, 2007. Development release 1.4.0 was announced May 22, 2007. 64 Studio 2.0 'Electric' was released July 27, 2007. 64 Studio 2.1 'A Minha Menina' was released June 9, 2008.
268. Adriane Knoppix
     http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html
     Adriane Knoppix aims to be an easy-to-use desktop system, which can be used entirely without vision oriented output devices, suitable for blind or visually impaired people with few or no computer skills. The live CD can be installed to a hard drive and provides access to standard Internet services like email, www, chat, and using mobile phone extension services like SMS and MMS (over the user's own mobile phone via bluetooth). Klaus Knopper, creator of Knoppix, and his visually impaired wife Adriane are the principle developers. ADRIANE is also an acronym for Audio Desktop Reference Implementation and Networking Environment.
269. Agnula
     http://www.agnula.info/
     DeMuDi
     The Agnula Project aims to develop a reference distribution for the GNU/Linux operating system completely based on Free Software and devoted to professional and consumer audio applications and multimedia development. There was a Red Hat based branch (ReHMuDi), but it never got very far. The Debian based DeMuDi is still in progress. AGNULA/ReHMuDi 2.0 was announced September 15, 2004. AGNULA/DeMuDi 1.2.0 was released September 30, 2004. DeMuDi 1.2.1 was released July 7, 2005. Agnula lost it's funding in early 2006 and lost it's .org domain name after that, but the .info domain works for now.
270. amaroK Live CD
     http://amaroklive.com/
     The amaroK Live CD was developed as a way to demonstrate the features of the amaroK music player, not as a complete system. It is based on the KDE-centric PCLinuxOS. Version 1.3 was released October 3, 2005.
271. APODIO
     http://apodio.org/ http://www.apo33.org/apodio/doku.php
     APODIO is a Mandriva based distribution containing audio, text-friendly, graphic and video tools. It can be used as a liveCD or be installed on a partition of your hard disk. Version 4.3.6 was released May 11, 2006. Version 4.3.9 test was released July 28, 2006.
272. ArcheOS
     http://www.arc-team.com/
     ArcheOS is short for Archeological Operating System. It is a live CD GNU/Linux distribution built for archaeological aims and based on PCLinuxOS. ArcheOS is developed following the Oparc project guidelines and it's released under the General Public License (GPL). ArcheOS Akhenaton v1.0.1 was the current version when this entry was added, January 9, 2006. ArcheOS v 1.1.6 was released June 27, 2006. ArcheOS v 2.0.0 was released February 19, 2008.
273. ArtistX
     http://www.artistx.org/
     ArtistX is a live DVD which turns a computer into a full multimedia production studio. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux and contains nearly all the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Linux computing platform. It doesn't need to be installed, and boots directly into a running system without touching hard drives. The files produced with ArtistX can be easily stored on USB devices or CD/DVD medium while it is running. ArtistX joined the list with its 0.3 release, April 2, 2007. ArtistX 0.4 was released November 18, 2007. ArtistX 0.5 was released June 12, 2008.
274. AspisOS Linux
     http://aspisos.berlios.de/
     AspisOS Linux is targeted for SBCs (Single Board Computers) or dedicated desktop PCs that will function as wireless access points. It's optimized for size and security. Version 0.0.1 was released September 16, 2005. Version 0.0.4 was released January 25, 2006.
275. Asterisk Live! CD
     Asterisk Live! CF
     http://www.automated.it/asterisk/
     http://www.automated.it/asterisk/asterisk-cf.htm
     Asterisk PBX is Linux based, open source PBX software that provides voice over IP in three protocols and is interoperable with most standards-based telephony equipment using comparatively inexpensive hardware. If you want to play around with Asterisk check out this distribution which is available as a Live CD and a Compact Flash install. The Getting Started With Asterisk guide provides an excellent starting point.
276. BG-Rescue Linux
     http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/bgrescue/
     BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It joins the list at version 0.1.2, released July 12, 2003. Version 0.4.1 was released March 2, 2005.
277. BioBrew Linux
     http://biobrew.bioinformatics.org/
     BioBrew Linux is an open source Linux distribution based on the NPACI Rocks cluster software and enhanced for bioinformaticists and life scientists. It automates cluster installation, includes all the HPC software a cluster enthusiast needs, and contains popular bioinformatics applications. BioBrew was at v3.0 when added to the list February 28, 2005. BioBrew v4.1.2 was released May 15, 2006.
278. BIOKNOPPIX
     http://bioknoppix.hpcf.upr.edu/
     BIOKNOPPIX comes from the University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and the Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR). It's a Live-CD Linux distribution, based on KNOPPIX, specialized to include tools for bioinformatics. Bio-Knoppix beta version 0.2 was released February 13, 2004. Version 0.2 was still the current stable release as of March 2007.
279. Bio-Linux
     http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
     http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/live_dvd.html
     Bio-Linux is based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Bioinformatics-related customisations include the inclusion of a large number of bioinformatics programs and programming libraries, the addition of graphical menus for much of the bioinformatics software, and links from the desktop to key documentation and applications. The system also includes a comprehensive, categorised and searchable documentation system for bioinformatics software. The Bio-Linux project began in 2002 and was designed as a mechanism to deploy bioinformatics and data management software on a powerful computing platform to researchers funded by the NERC Environmental Genomics Thematic Programme. Bio-Linux version 1.0 was released in 2002 and the latest version, Bio-Linux 4.0 was released January 5, 2005. A live DVD version was released November 2005. Version 1.3 of the live DVD was released July, 19 2006.
280. BlackRhino GNU/Linux
     http://blackrhino.xrhino.com/main.php?page=home
     http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/blackrhino/
     BlackRhino is a free Debian-based GNU/Linux software distribution for the Sony PlayStation 2. It contains over 1,200 software packages to aid in using and creating programs for the Sony PlayStation 2 Linux kit. The programs range in functionality from simple games, to text editors, compilers, web servers, windowing systems, database systems, graphics packages, mail servers and a variety of other tools and utilities. Version 1.0 was released March 4, 2003.
281. BRaiLleSPEAK
     http://www.brlspeak.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/brlspeak/
     BRLSPEAK is a Braille and Speech oriented mini-distribution of Linux for the visually impaired. Support for English, French, Italian and Dutch (Netherlands). Initial version 7.0-1, released November 22, 2001, was based on Slackware. Version 07-10-2003, released October 8, 2003, is Debian-based.
282. Bugnux
     http://www.bugnux.org/
     Bugnux is a live CD Linux distribution made specifically for software testers. This Mandriva based distribution runs from a single bootable CD and runs entirely in RAM. Bugnux contains an extensive set of open source software testing tools that can be used for functional and performance testing. It also has standalone tools to test GUI applications and Mozilla Firefox extensions as well as a set of stress and load testing tools that can be used to assist in testing performance of web applications. Bugnux Test release-1 was released April 14, 2007.
283. CAELinux
     http://www.caelinux.com/CMS/
     CAELinux is a live DVD distribution for Computer Aided Engineering. It is based on PCLinuxOS 2007 and incorporates the open source CAE applications Salomé and Code_Aster. CAElinux 2008 was released April 18, 2008.
284. Catux-USB
     http://www.catux.org/catux-usb/index.php?idioma=en
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/catux-usb/
     Catux-USB is a distribution created by the GNU/LINUX User Association from central Catalonia, that boots and runs from USB devices such as Pendrives. It is useful with Pendrives with 128 MB or 256 MB, but it can be resized to other capacities. It is Debian-based, with Knoppix scripts to autodetect hardware. It includes XFree86, some email clients, Web clients, etc., but using apt-get you can install or remove packages. It uses the e2compr patch to write to Pendrives more efficiently. Catux-USB was released initially at version 0.0.1, dated July 23, 2004.
285. CDMEDIC
     http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61662
     CDMEDIC is a Knoppix-based live CD with software appropriate for radiologists, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy physicians and MDs, neurologists and neurosurgeons and also other branches related to medical imaging. Version 6.2 was released August 8, 2005. The fusion.iso v2.0 was released April 2, 2006.
286. ChainSaw Linux
     http://www.chainsawlinux.com/
     Crimson Chain Productions, a Maryland based film & video production company, brings you CHAINSAWLINUX - a Linux distribution designed solely for video editing, CGI, & 3D animation. The current version of ChainSaw is 0.0.1, where it's been for some time. A "We're not Dead" notice was posted April 27, 2006.
287. CHAOS
     http://www.purehacking.com/chaos/
     CHAOS is a CD or PXE based Linux and openMosix cluster distribution. The CHAOS is a tiny (6Mbyte) Linux distribution, that will boot any 586/Pentium (or better) computer into a working openMosix node, without disturbing (or even touching) the contents of the local hard disk. CHAOS aims to be the fastest, most compact, secure and straight-forward openMosix cluster platform available.
288. Clonezilla Live
     http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
     The Free Software Lab at the NCHC has combined Debian Live with Clonezilla to produce "Clonezilla Live," a live CD that can be used to easily clone individual machines. The primary benefit of Clonezilla Live is that it eliminates the need to set up a DRBL server ahead of time and the need for the computer being cloned to boot from a network. Clonezilla Live can be used to clone individual computers using a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Though the image size is limited by the boot media's storage capacity, this problem can be eliminated by using a network filesystem such as sshfs or samba. Clonezilla live 1.0.9-19 (stable) was released March 14, 2008.
289. ClusterKnoppix
     http://clusterknoppix.sw.be/
     http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/clusterknoppix/
     ClusterKnoppix is a basically a modified Knoppix with the openMosix kernel. Bittorrent: clusterKNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-05-20-EN-cl1.iso was released May 28, 2003. Version V3.6-2004-08-16-EN-cl1 was released September 1, 2004.
290. Compact Flash Linux Project
     http://www.cflinux.hu/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/cflinux/
     The Compact Flash Linux Project is a Linux distribution designed to run on a compact flash card in read-only mode. It is as small as possible, and currently needs around 14 MB. It includes OpenSSH, quagga, iptables, hostap, madwifi, wireless-tools, pppoe, tcpdump, bridge-utils, and more. The initial release was v0.1.1, dated January 8, 2004. cflinux-1.0p2.img was released August 13, 2006.
291. Debian-Med
     http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
     Debian-Med is an internal Debian project to support tasks of people in medical care. The goal of Debian-Med is to build a a complete system for all tasks in medical care, using only free software.
292. DietLinux
     http://lart.info/~bwachter/projects/dietlinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/dietlinux/
     DietLinux is a dietlibc-based Linux distribution. The initial version, 0.1, was released May 16, 2003. Version 0.2-pre0 was released January 31, 2005.
293. DNA Linux
     http://www.dnalinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnalinux/
     DNA Linux is a live Linux distribution with bioinformatics software preloaded. It is for people who find it hard to install EMBOSS, Primer3, BLAST, and other bioinformatics software or who want to have a test system for class or demonstration purposes. The first public version was 0.13, released January 31, 2004. Version 0.592, based on SLAX 5.10, was released April 18, 2006.
294. EeeDora
     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc
     http://code.google.com/p/eeedora/
     EeeDora is a Fedora based distribution for the Asus eeePC. The current version was 2008-01-25_12h58m (spun from Fedora when the entry was added; January 29, 2008.
295. eeeXubuntu
     http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home
     eeeXubuntu is a custom version of the Xubuntu 7.10 Live CD for the Eee PC. It comes with fully-integrated hardware support, including native wireless drivers, functioning Ethernet support, tweaks for low-resolution desktop environments, and other miscellaneous fixes. Wherever possible, these changes are incorporated using custom .deb packages rather than spewing assorted files all over post-install. A broader goal of this project is to assist the Ubuntu community in supporting the eeePC hardware, with an eye towards other Dynabook-like form factors like Everex's Cloudbook and the OLPC XO-1. This entry was added to the list June 26, 2008, when the current version was release 3.
296. Elive
     http://www.elivecd.org/
     Elive is based on Debian 'etch'. It's a live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. Elive also supports a hard disk install. Version 0.4.2 was released March 4, 2006. Elive 1.0 was released July 5, 2007. A development release of Elive 0.9 Beta9 "MacBook" was released August 28, 2007. Elive development version 1.5.0 has some big changes, including a completely rewritten boot system and an update to Debian Lenny. It was released January 18, 2008. Elive 1.9.10 development version was released October 17, 2008.
297. Ewrt
     http://www.portless.net/menu/ewrt/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ewrt/
     Ewrt is a Linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G that was forked from the Linksys and Sveasoft code bases. It is designed to meet the needs of open wireless network operators by providing a captive portal based on NoCatSplash and large-scale management functionality on a stable and low-cost platform. The first public release, version 0.2 beta1, became available April 27, 2004. Ewrt-0.4 was released March 2006.
298. Exherbo
     http://www.exherbo.org/
     Exherbo is a distribution designed for people who know what they're doing with Linux. It is inspired in many places by Gentoo -- in particular, it supports flexible source-based installation with up-front configuration. Exherbo is not ready for prime time, it's a place for developers to experiment. Expect things to be broken. Added to the list May 21, 2008.
299. EZWebPC
     http://www.livekiosk.com/
     EZWebPC is a thin client Linux distribution and administrative interface, from LiveKiosk. The distribution runs as a live CD or flash disk. EZWebPC v. 1.4.2 is available for download.
300. FAN
     http://fannagioscd.sourceforge.net/drupal/
     FAN (Fully Automated Nagios) aims to provide a CD based on CentOS in order to simplify installation of Nagios and other Nagios tools. Tools installed by FAN are: Linux, MySQL, Nagios, Nagios Plugins, NaReTo, NagVis, Centreon, Net-SNMP and NDOUtils. FAN was added to the list with the release of version 0.3 on May 27, 2008.
301. Featherweight Linux
     http://www.featherweightlinux.org/
     Featherweight Linux is a Live-CD, installable Linux distribution remastered from Feather Linux. It aims to be a full featured distribution for older hardware. Version 1.3 was released September 27, 2005.
302. FireCast
     http://www.wirespring.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/firecast/
     FireCast is a Linux-based software suite for building and managing interactive kiosk networks. It is designed for use with standard PC hardware, and bundles a tamper-resistant kiosk environment, customizable user interface, Web browser, and full multimedia support with a plug- and-play Linux operating system. It also includes a complete set of Web- based remote management and advertising control tools for scheduling content, monitoring device status, and creating and tracking ad campaigns. It requires no prior knowledge of Linux, and uses a familiar graphical interface for all administrative functions. This is a proprietary package, with a free trial.
303. Firenet mini linux
     http://firenet.ik8.com/
     http://redice.8800.org/
     Firenet mini linux contains busybox and a Linux kernel. No other binary files are included. It supports inetd, telnetd, httpd, devfsd, networking, dhcpd, and more. The system uses busybox's init and implements a Debian-style SysV-init boot script, which is helpful when adding a new system service. The system is also a good example of using busybox in an embedded system. The initial public release of Firenet, version 0.1, was released November 23, 2003.
304. Firmware Linux
     http://landley.net/code/firmware/
     Firmware Linux is build system that produces a bootable single file linux system for various hardware platforms. Along the way, the build produces a relocatable cross compiler for the target hardware, and also a native build environment. Development on Firmware Linux began in August 2006. Version 0.2.0 was released March 6, 2007. Version 0.3.1 was released January 29, 2008.
305. Flash Linux
     http://flashlinux.org.uk/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/flashlinux/
     Flash Linux is a customised Linux distribution based on Gentoo Linux, designed to be run directly off a USB key or other (similar) forms of bootable flash memory. It should work within the contraints of 256Mb of (flash) memory although larger devices may also be used. Flash Linux release 0.3.1 became available November 27, 2004. FlashLinux 0.3.4 was released February 9, 2005.
306. FREEEEE
     http://freeeee.org/
     FREEEEE is a 100% Free Software GNU/Linux for Eee, brought to you by BLAG and dyne, FREEEEE turns your EeePC into a multi-media box. It comes as live USB image; just copy the image to a USB stick and boot your Eee. FREEEEE-200809250135.ext2 was the initial version; added to the list September 30, 2008.
307. FreeMed Live
     http://freemedsoftware.org/
     The FreeMed Software Foundation has a live CD, based on Kubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) with FreeMED 0.8.0 and REMITT 0.3 configured for test use. Version 0.1 was released September 29, 2005. FreeMED 0.8.3 was released August 11, 2006.
308. Gamix
     http://www.gamix.org/
     Gamix is Mandriva-based Linux build that facilitates the creation of boot CDs so developers may create Gamix versions of their original software. Basesystem Beta 3 was released January 22, 2007.
309. GeeXboX
     http://www.geexbox.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/geexbox/
     GeeXboX is a standalone media player Linux distribution, similar to MoviX. It's a small bootable CD which allows you to play your favorites video (DivX, XviD, FFMpeg, MPEG 1/2, VCD, DVD, OggMedia, Windows Media, RealMedia, etc.) and audio (MP3, Audio CD, Ogg/Vorbis, etc.) files. It is based on MPlayer, and can be used on every x86 computer. It supports TV-out for various cards such as S3, nVidia, and ATI. A bootable ISO is available, but it's easy to modify the sources to build your own GeeXboX or even to install it on a HDD or USB Key or to boot from network via PXE. It also supports networking, TV tuners and WiFi cards. The initial public release of version 0.90-1 was made available May 17, 2003. GeeXboX 2.x technological preview was released December 31, 2006. GeeXboX 1.1 was released July 1, 2007.
310. GENDIST
     http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/gendist/
     GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to create your own special mini-distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging everything on media. GENDIST 1.6.0 (Stable) was released September 14, 2003.
311. GentooX
     http://gentoox.shallax.com/
     GentooX is Gentoo for the XBox. Gentoox Pro v3.0, Gentoox Home v5.0, Gentoox Sparkle v2.0, Gentoox Resctoox v4.0 were all released July 4, 2006. Resctoox v5.1 was released August 1, 2006. Gentoox Pro v4.1 was released August 21, 2006. Gentoox Home v6.1 was released August 23, 2006.
312. GhostWriter LiveCD
     http://billy-bob-ming.com/ghostwriter/
     The GhostWriter LiveCD is a Slax-based Linux system for writers. It comes with a help browser; the LyX word-processor; templates for novels, screenplays, articles, and letters; a PDF viewer to check your work; and The Gimp to create illustrations. LyX exports text, LaTeX, PDF, and PostScript -- all publishing industry standards. And you can use the PDFs to print your work on any machine that has Adobe Acrobat. The current version was 0.2.3 when this entry was added to the list, January 18, 2006. Version 0.2.5 was released June 6, 2006. More GPL free software can be found at Billy-Bob Ming.
313. GoboLinux
     http://www.gobolinux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/gobolinux/
     GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. Package management is performed through the directory layout itself by storing each program in its own /Programs/[AppName]/[Version] directory. GoboLinux joins the list at version 007, released on October 25, 2003. GoboLinux 013 was released November 3, 2006. GoboLinux 014 was released January 1, 2008. GoboLinux 014.01 was released April 2, 2008.
314. GParted LiveCD
     http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
     http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
     GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD
     The GParted Live CD puts the power and simplicity of GParted on a business card sized Live CD. The CD aims to be fast, small in size, and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Slackware Linux and uses Xfree86's Xvesa, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the lastest 2.6 Linux Kernel. Version 0.1 was released January 12, 2006. GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD is a multi-boot live CD, made available in March 2007. GPARTED-CLONEZILLA LiveCD 2.3, released December 17, 2007, was last release to include clonezilla. GParted 0.3.9 was released September 12, 2008. GParted-live 0.3.9-4 was released October 1, 2008.
315. Grafpup Linux
     http://www.grafpup.com/
     Grafpup Linux is a desktop operating system with a focus on providing a complete and stable workflow for digital imaging professionals and graphic artists in a very compact package. It runs as a live CD while allowing for persistent storage for your data and a nice package management system for addon software. Packages can even be installed when running the OS from the live CD and will remain there when you reboot. It can also installed on a USB thumbdrive or hard disk. It's based on Puppy Linux, and includes packages like, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Cinepaint and more, while keeping the size of the CD to around 75MB. Grafpup was added to the list January 18, 2006, when the current version was 1.0.1. Grafpup_standard-1.0.2 was released February 12, 2006. Grafpup-104 was released June 19, 2006. Grafpup-2.0 was released June 2, 2007.
316. Ichthux
     http://www.ichthux.com/
     Ichthux is an operating system aimed at Christian users. It is based on Kubuntu with addition software for bible study and other Christian programs and settings. Ichthux 6.09 "Amazing Grace" was released in September 2006.
317. JackLab
     http://jacklab.net/
     http://jacklab.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/JackLab
     JackLab is a noncommercial private initiative, supervised by volunteers. It aims to add media and music software as an extension to openSUSE. JackLab was added to the list January 17, 2006. JackLab Audio Distribution 1.0 alpha3 was released April 27, 2007. JAD 1.0 was released September 15, 2007.
318. Kaboot
     http://kaboot.ainkaboot.co.uk/
     Kaboot provides bootable ISO images for the creation of live CDs and USB devices. This Gentoo-based distribution currently comes in four flavors, Recovery, Lite, Science and Kaboot Komplete for a full-featured KDE desktop. Kaboot was added to the list February 21, 2006.
319. KnoppMyth
     http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
     KnoppMyth combines Knoppix and MythTV to provide an easy-to-use TV settop box using Linux. KnoppMyth R5F27 was released September 9, 2007.
320. Kororaa
     http://www.kororaa.org/
     The Kororaa project is a way of installing Gentoo Linux easily and quickly, similar to Gentoo's "Stage3 with GRP packages" install. A live CD showcasing Xgl technology was released March 8, 2006. Kororaa Xgl Live CD 0.2 was released April 6, 2006. Kororaa AIGLXgl 0.3 Live CD was released October 3, 2006.
321. Lintrack
     http://www.lintrack.org/
     Lintrack is a small, easy to configure and highly integrated GNU/Linux distribution for routers, firewalls, network access servers, content filters and more. It is targeted especially to small and medium-sized wireless Internet service providers. Lintrack 2.0 "Hockenheim", released October 15, 2006, was the current version when this entry was added to the list.
322. LinuxConsole
     http://linuxconsole.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxconsole/
     LinuxConsole is a "live" Linux distribution that comes from France. You can boot it from CD, HD, USB, or PXE. There is a "core" ISO image (55MB), with all the drivers (3D and ADSL included) needed to install it or just try it. LinuxConsole joins the list at version 0.4RC2 released March 10, 2004. This version is based on Mandrakelinux 9.1. Version 0.4.5.1 was released September 20, 2004. LinuxConsole 1.0.2007 was released June 25, 2007. LinuxConsole 1.0.2008 was released July 12, 2008.
323. linuX-gamers.net Live
     http://live.linux-gamers.net/
     The project live.linuX-gamers.net was founded with the idea to present Linux games at the Linuxtag exhibition in a novel way. A collection of games should be shown to directly run from DVD without the user in need to know about Linux or care about his system. After some intense brainstorming sessions the team decided to create and publish this DVD as a live distribution project. The first public release of the live DVD, v0.9.1, was released June 16, 2007. linuX-gamers.net live 0.9.4 was released September 27, 2008.
324. Linux For Clinics
     http://www.linuxforclinics.org/
     The Linux For Clinics (LFC) Project consists of a team of people who have a common interest in health, medicine, humanity and free and open source software (FOSS). This is a Ubuntu based distribution that is focused on providing reliable clinical laboratory and medical practice software. The first alpha testing release was announced April 4, 2007.
325. LinuxMCE
     http://www.linuxmce.com/
     LinuxMCE is a free, open source distribution based on Kubuntu. It includes a complete whole-house media solution with PVR and distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills. LinuxMCE joined the list at version 0704, released August 7, 2007.
326. Linux Router Project
     http://lr101.linux-it-solutions.de/
     The Linux Router Project - LR101 was started in the summer of 2003 with the goal of developing a real hardware based Linux router. The web site is in German. More information can also be found in this English language info sheet (pdf format). LR101 Release 1.0 is available.
327. LinVDR
     http://linvdr.org/projects/linvdr/index.en.php
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linvdr/
     LinVDR is a small, lightweight, ready-to-run and easy-to-install distribution of VDR which can turn almost any PC with a DVB-s (digital satellite) card into a digital hard disk recorder. It contains VDR Admin for Web administration and Samba shares to upload your MP3 files or download DVD images made from your TV recordings. It's compatible with Debian (woody). Version 0.2 was released September 29, 2003. Version 0.7 was released December 7, 2004.
328. LiveContent
     http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Livecontent
     Creative Commons and the Fedora project have created the LiveContent CD, a live CD used to showcase free and open content released under a Creative Commons license. The initial version was announced August 7, 2007 and contained Fedora 7 with addition CC content. Future plans include live DVD and USB versions.
329. Mindi Linux
     http://www.mondorescue.org/
     Mindi builds boot/root disk images using your existing kernel, modules, tools and libraries. Version 0.71_20021109 was released November 10, 2002. Version 0.87 was released October 30, 2003. MondoRescue 2.2.1 was released January 2, 2007.
330. Monoppix
     http://www.monoppix.com/
     Monoppix is a Live CD Linux distribution (based on Knoppix), showcasing and spreading Mono technology. Mono is a free .NET framework implementation for Linux/Unix operating systems. Version 1.1.8 was released August 24, 2005.
331. MoviX
     http://movix.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/movix/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/movix/
     MoviX is a CD-ready tiny (~5MB) Slackware-based Linux distribution containing all you need to boot a PC from CD (using syslinux) and automagically play all the avi files you put in the CD root with mplayer through the framebuffer. You can use it to play all your movies, even on a diskless PC. MoviX2 is a related distribution aimed at transforming your PC into a powerful multimedia box. The initial release of MoviX, version 0.2, was announced September 16, 2002. Version 0.8.3 was released April 6, 2004. MoviX2 v0.3.1rc2 was released August 13, 2004. eMoviX is another branch, a micro (7MB) Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all the video/audio files you want. eMoviX version 0.9.0 was released June 28, 2005.
332. Musix GNU+Linux
     http://musix.org.ar/
     Musix is a 100% Free Debian based Operating system intended for musicians and all kinds of users. It contains an enormous collection of free programs. It can run as a live CD/DVD and can also be installed to a hard drive. Currently supported languages (as of February 2006): English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalán, Vascuence and Gallego. Version 0.39 was released March 31, 2006. Version 0.99 was released March 5, 2007. Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 R4 Live-DVD/CD was released May 22, 2008. Musix 1.0 R2R5 was released August 6, 2008.
333. Myrinix
     http://myrinix.com/
     Myrinix- Digital Home Edition is a Linux (Debian and sidux) based live CD. Using Myrinix you can connect a High Definition Plasma TV or a big LCD screen to a central server that can record and play DVD or internet. The Myrinix 2007-08/4 live CD/DVD was released March 19, 2008.
334. MythDora
     http://swik.net/MythDora
     MythDora is a Fedora Core and MythTV linux-distribution that is packed on a single DVD. The DVD loads a preconfigured Fedora Core 5 installation and installs and configures MythTV-0.20. Also included are MythTV modules and addons: MythArchive, MediaMVP and MythStreamTV. MythDora 3.2 was the current version as of March 28, 2007. MythDora 5.0, based on Fedora 8 and MythTV-0.21, was released April 27, 2008.
335. Navyn OS
     http://navynos.linux.pl/
     Navyn OS is a Gentoo-based distribution with an emphasis on network security. It can be run as a live CD or installed to hard disk. The current version was 2005.1 when this distribution was added to the list on June 1, 2005. Current efforts seem to be going into the Nao File Manager (version 0.4.0 rc1 released March 21, 2007).
336. NimbleX
     http://www.nimblex.net/
     http://custom.nimblex.net/
     NimbleX is a small but versatile operating system which is able to boot from a small 8 cm CD, from flash memory like USB pens or MP3 players and even from the network. Because it runs entirely from a CD, USB or network it doesn't require installation or even much hardware. NimbleX is based on Slackware with the use of linux-live scripts. NimbleX 2007 was released December 25, 2006. NimbleX 2007v2 was released April 25, 2007. Custom NimbleX allows you to generate a customized Linux distribution. Custom NimbleX 2 RC1 was released August 3, 2007. NimbleX 2007 v2 now comes in a sub100MB Edition. An updated sub100 was released September 28, 2007. NimbleX 2008 was released July 22, 2008.
337. NSLU2-Linux
     http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
     Wiki Home Page
     The NSLU2-Linux project exists to discuss, develop and modify the firmware and hardware of the Linksys NSLU2, the Synology DS101, the Iomega NAS100d, the D-Link DSMG600, and other ixp4xx-based devices with large attached storage. SlugOS is the collective name for a group of firmware distributions which are derived from a common source base (and therefore share common documentation as a result of that). The latest version of SlugOS is 3.10. OpenSlug uses the OpenEmbedded package repository, and is designed for use with an external disk. UcSlugC also uses the OpenEmbedded package repository, but is designed to be the basis of some other application-specific firmware distribution, rather than a firmware distribution in its own right. SlugOS/LE (formerly known as DebianSlug) uses the Debian package repository and is an alternative for those people who want to run Debian on their NSLU2.
338. OpenWrt
     http://openwrt.org/
     OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G. Instead of trying to cram every possible feature into one firmware, OpenWrt provides only a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages. For users this means the ability to custom tune features, removing unwanted packages to make room for other packages and for developers this means being able to focus on packages without having to test and release an entire firmware. WhiteRussian 0.9 was released February 3, 2007.
339. Overclockix
     http://overclockix.octeams.com/
     Overclockix features a system of shell scripts to make using Distributing Computing clients (Folding@Home 4.0, Seti@Home and Prime95) simple and automated. In addition to Distributed Computing, there are other burn-in applications such as Memtest and cpuburn for torturing your hardware to prove stability and a variety of rescue/recovery tools. Based on the unofficial Knoppix 3.4 Cebit magazine edition, Overclockix 3.4 V2 was released April 30, 2004. Overclockix 3.79 was released August 21, 2005.
340. PAIPIX GNU/Linux
     http://www.paipix.org/
     PAIPIX GNU/Linux focuses on scientific software. It was originally a remastered KNOPPIX CD, but now it comes on a DVD which can be started in live mode or in the installation mode. The DVD also contains a repository of packages re-built from Debian. PAIPIX joins the list at version 7, released August 22, 2007. PAIPIX 7.10 was released October 17, 2007.
341. Parted Magic
     http://partedmagic.com/
     Parted Magic is a Linux LiveCD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives. Optimized at approximately 30MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc.) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. Parted Magic 2.2 was released May 7, 2008. Parted Magic 3.0 was released July 25, 2008. PM 3.1 was released October 18, 2008.
342. PelicanHPC
     http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/
     PelicanHPC picks up where ParallelKnoppix left off, providing a live CD that will let you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes. The frontend node (either a real computer or a virtual machine) boots from the CD image. The compute nodes boot by PXE, using the frontend node as the server. All of the nodes of the cluster get their filesystems from the same CD image, so it is guaranteed that all nodes run the the same software. The CD image is created by running a single script, which takes advantage of the Debian Live infrastructure. If you need to add packages, it is very easy to create a custom version by adding the package names to the script and then running it. Pelican v1.0 was released January 10, 2008. Pelican 1.5.1 was released May 20, 2008.
343. Pentoo
     http://www.pentoo.ch/
     Pentoo is a Linux LiveCD, based on Gentoo, with a focus on penetration testing. The current version was 2005.1 when Pentoo was added to this list on June 1, 2005. V2006.0 was released February 2, 2006. Mini-Pentoo 2006.1 was released July 5, 2006.
344. Pg_live
     http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Library;SUBM=10101
     Pg_live is a free Linux Live CD community project. It is an enhanced adaptation of Xubuntu, designed and optimized expressly for the PostgreSQL Database administrator and enthusiast. Pg_live 8.2.1.2 was released March 1, 2007. pg_live 8.3.0.1 was released February 15, 2008.
345. Poseidon Linux
     http://www.poseidon.furg.br/
     English site
     Poseidon Linux was designed as a friendly and complete desktop, based on open source software and aimed at the Brazilian/International scientific community. This operating system is based on Ubuntu and inspired by Quantian Linux. It offers several specific tools in the areas of GIS, 3D Visualization, Mathematics, Statistics and several otherfields of research. It also has all the software expected in a modern desktop such as an office suite - with spell checker, web browsers, e-mail readers, instant messaging, and more. Poseidon Linux 3.0, released June 21, 2008, supports Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, English and German.
346. Puppy Linux
     http://www.puppylinux.org/
     http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage
     Puppy Linux is a very small, yet quite fully featured distribution. Up to and including version 0.6, all applications in Puppy were written in C and used only the Athena/neXtaw or GTK+ v1.2 widget libraries. From version 0.7 onwards C++ applications and the Qt library v2.3 (for Konqueror and Scribus) were also used. Puppy 0.7.6 was released May 11, 2003. Chubby Puppy version 1.0.5 was released September 29, 2005. Puppy Linux 1.09 Community Edition was released May 15, 2006. BareBones Puppy v2.00 was released June 2, 2006. OneBone Puppy (no X/GUI applications) version 2.00rev.1 was released June 9, 2006. Puppy Linux 2.15 Community Edition was released April 6, 2007. Puppy Linux v4.00 was released May 5, 2008. Puppy 4.1 was released October 5, 2008.
347. Pyramid Linux
     http://pyramid.metrix.net/
     Pyramid, formerly known as Pebble Linux is a smallish distribution image designed for embedded style devices. It comes pre-installed on all Metrix Kits. Pebble was based on Debian. Pyramid was initially based on the Ubuntu Breezy Badger release. Pyramid 1.0b5 was released January 25, 2007.
348. Recovery Is Possible! (RIP)
     http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/recoveryispossible/
     RIP is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It might also be possible to install and boot it from a LS-120 floppy drive. It has been designed for non-networked stand-alone home PC hard drive booting and rescue. Only the CD version has UDF/HPFS/MINIX/XFS/JFS filesystem support. RIP joined the list at verion 51, released March 21, 2002. RIP 4.3 was released December 22, 2007. RIP 7.0 was released October 18, 2008.
349. RedHawk Linux
     http://www.ccur.com/
     RedHawk Linux is the product of Concurrent Computer Corporation and is used in Concurrent's hardware solutions. It's an industry-standard, POSIX-compliant, real-time version of Linux, based on the Red Hat Linux distribution. RedHawk features high I/O throughput, fast response to external events, and optimized interprocess communication. Version 1.3 was released May 22, 2003. RedHawk 4.2 for Intel and AMD was released April 17, 2007. RedHawk 5.1 was released April 17, 2008.
350. Rocks Cluster Distribution
     http://www.rocksclusters.org/
     Rocks Cluster emphasizes ease of management, configurability and security in clusters. An early version was based on Red Hat Linux 7.3. Rocks is now based on CentOS release 4/update 5 and all updates as of July 4, 2007. Rocks 4.0.0 (Whitney) was released June 7, 2005 with support for Athlon, Itanium, Nocona (EM64T), Opteron, and Pentium. Rocks 4.3 (Mars Hill) was released July 6, 2007, for i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures. Rocks 5.0 was released April 30, 2008.
351. RUNT
     http://runt.mybox.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/runt/
     RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off of a 128 MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive. RUNT 0.92, the initial version, was released November 27, 2002. Version 4.0 was released November 11, 2004. RUNT 5.0 was released February 1, 2007.
352. Scyld Beowulf
     Penguin Computing offers Scyld Beowulf, the original cluster virtualization platform, created by Donald Becker, for Linux 2.4.X-based HPC clusters. The current shipping version of Scyld Beowulf is Series30 (as of April 2007). Penguin Computing also provides Scyld ClusterWare HPC 4.0, a fully integrated software platform for HPC that provides a bundled Linux distribution CentOS 4 (optional support for Red Hat Enterprise Server 4).
353. SkatOS
     http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/skatos/current/
     SkatOS is a bootable stand alone XSkat card playing system that fits on either one single floppy disk or one eltorito-boot CD. It features full network client/server support so you can play Skat over LAN with your friends. Version 1.0 was released August 8, 2004. Version: 2.0 was released February 4, 2007.
354. SliTaz GNULinux
     http://www.slitaz.org/
     SliTaz is a very small desktop system that runs from live CD or live USB. SliTaz v1.0 is the first stable version to be released, after two years of development. This version, released March 22, 2008, weighs in at under 25Mb using light-weight packages like the JWM window manager and the lighttpd web server. Cooking is the SliTaz development branch and new Cooking betas have been released in May, June and July of 2008.
355. SPB-Linux
     http://spblinux.sourceforge.net/
     SPB-Linux is a USB distribution that boots from a memory stick. SPB-Linux joins this list at version 2.0, added July 29, 2003. The current version is 2.1, as of February 2006. The current version was still 2.1 as of April 12, 2007.
356. stresslinux
     http://www.stresslinux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/stresslinux/
     stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems. Initial version 0.1.5b was released July 4, 2003. Version 0.3.1 was released May 31, 2006.
357. SuperGamer
     http://supergamer.org/
     SuperGamer is a live DVD with lots of games. All Games are Linux Native. It was originally based on PCLinuxOS, but the latest version (SuperGamer-VL) is based on VectorLinux. A test release of SuperGamer-VL was announced June 29, 2007.
358. SystemRescueCd
     http://www.sysresccd.org/
     SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CDROM for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the CDROM, and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs). Available in French, English and with a Linux speakup option for the blind. SystemRescueCd is based on the Gentoo LiveCd. Version 0.3.3 was released March 1, 2007. Version 1.1.0 was released September 7, 2008.
359. Tempest Showroom
     http://www.dirk-loss.de/tempest-showroom.htm
     Tempest for Eliza by Erik Thiele makes your computer monitor send out special radio signals so that you can then hear computer generated music in your radio. Tempest Showroom is a live CD with everything you need to run Tempest for Eliza on a PC. Tempest Showroom 0.9.7 was released November 19, 2006.
360. ThinStation
     http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/thinstation/
     ThinStation is a Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients supporting all major connectivity protocols. It can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The configuration is centralized to simplify terminal management. The initial Freshmeat release was on May 15, 2003, version 0.91. Version 2.2 was released October 17, 2006.
361. ThinTUX
     http://thintux.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/thintux/
     ThinTUX is a small Linux distribution for thin clients. It has support for all major remote access protocols like ICA, RDP, XDM, telnet, ssh, and more. The distribution can be booted from the network using a network card with PXE-support or from standard media storage devices like floppy, CD, hard disk, or disk-on-chip. The configuration is stored on a DHCP server to simplify terminal management. The initial version of ThinTUX, 0.1, was released January 22, 2004. Version 0.21 was released September 29, 2005.
362. Tkfp Live!
     http://tkfp.sourceforge.net/
     Tkfp Live! started out as a bootable CD with Slackware 9.0, the WindowMaker window manager, and Tkfp. Tkfp is an electronic medical record information system suitable for a solo or small group Physician's office for storing clinical information on patients. S live CD with Tkfp59 and Puppy Linux 2.12 was released December 29, 2006.
363. trixbox
     http://www.trixbox.org/
     trixbox is a telephony application platform based on Asterisk Open Source PBX Software. The trixbox application platform makes it fast and simple to install and configure your business-class telephony system. With unlimited extensions, voicemail-to-email, music on hold, call parking, analog lines or high density T1/E1 circuits and many other features, trixbox provides all the functionality your business needs. trixbox brings big business PBX features to small and medium-sized businesses. trixbox 2.2 was released May 3, 2007. trixbox CE 2.4 was released January 4, 2008.
364. Ubuntu Christian Edition
     http://ubuntuce.com/
     Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. It is based on Ubuntu Linux and is suitable for both desktop and server use. Along with the standard Ubuntu applications, Ubuntu Christian Edition includes the best available Christian software. The latest release contains GnomeSword, a top of the line Bible study program for Linux based on the Sword Project. There are several modules installed with GnomeSword including Bibles, Commentaries, and Dictionaries. Ubuntu CE v1.4 (based on Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS) was released October 3, 2006. The Feisty-based Ubuntu CE v3.3 was released July 29, 2007. Ubuntu CE 4.0 was released August 24, 2008.
365. UbuntuME
     http://www.ubuntume.com/
     UbuntuME stands for Ubuntu Muslim Edition. Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a free, open source operating system based on the Ubuntu Linux with Islamic software (prayer times, Quran study tool, web content filtering tool, etc.) and a different design. The Feisty-based UbuntuME 7.04 was released October 14, 2007. UbuntuME 7.10 was released November 27, 2007. UbuntuME 8.04.1 was released July 4, 2008.
366. ubuntutrinux
     http://code.google.com/p/ubuntutrinux/
     Old Trinux site
     Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit was a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that was under active development from 1998-2003. ubuntutrinux seeks to integrate elements (and code, where appropriate) of Trinux with the Debian/Ubuntu mkinitramfs infrastructure to allow easy development and packaging Ubuntu binary (and ultimately package and repository) compatible ramdisk distributions using recent 2.6.x kernels. Although small ISO images will be released, the primary focus of the project is development and documentation of a flexible build environment based on Ubuntu Dapper LTS.
367. VideoLinux
     http://videolinux.net/
     VideoLinux is an easy to use distribution for video enthusiasts. It's based on PCLinuxOS and it includes video encoding and editing tools. VideoLinux2007 Preview 1 was released January 14, 2007.
368. Vigyaan
     http://www.vigyaancd.org/
     Vigyaan is an electronic workbench for computational biology and computational chemistry. It has been designed to meet the needs of both beginners and experts, with ready to use modeling software. VigyaanCD v0.1 was based on KNOPPIX v3.3 and it was released April 14, 2004. KNOPPIX v3.7-based VigyaanCD v1.0 was released September 7, 2005.
369. VMKnoppix
     http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/project/knoppix/vmknoppix/index-en.html
     old Xenoppix page
     VMKnoppix (formerly Xenoppix) is a Debian/Knoppix based live medium Linux distribution featuring a collection of Virtual Machine (VM) software, such as Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, QEMU, KQEMU (QEMU with accelerator) and UserMode Linux. Xenoppix knoppix v4.0 20050608 linuxtag xen-20050912 + IPAFont (Stable) was released September 15, 2005. The Xenoppix (Xen3.0.4 + KNOPPIX5.1.1) CD was released in early 2007. VMKnoppix 5.3.1CD was released May 19, 2008.
370. Vyatta
     http://www.vyatta.com/
     documentation
     The Vyatta Community Edition is a freely-available, community-supported release of Vyatta's open-source router/firewall product. Vyatta Community Edition 2 was released February 19, 2007. Vyatta Community Edition 2.2 (Camarillo) was released August 31, 2007. Vyatta Community 4.0 was released April 21, 2008. Vyatta Community Edition 4.1, released September 22, 2008, is an incremental update to VC4 that fixes some issues and includes some new, experimental features to test prior to VC5. Vyatta CE 4.1.4 was released October 16, 2008.
371. Warewulf
     http://warewulf-cluster.org/
     http://www.perceus.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/warewulf/
     Warewulf and Perceus are clustering solutions from Infiscale. Both Warewulf and Perceus can be built as standalone solutions (monitoring or provisioning), and when combined offer a complete clustering platform. The initial version of Warewulf, 0.3, was released March 11, 2002. Warewulf 3.0 was released February 2, 2007.
372. Wicker
     http://theredpost.com/wicker/
     Launchpad page
     Wicker is a modified version of Ubuntu that runs on digital signs from RedPost. It boots from USB flash on an embedded device for use as a digital photo frame or as a web-connected digital sign. You can also download it and install it on your own hardware. Wicker is developed as an open source project by RedPost. Wicker beta-2008-05-19 was released May 19, 2008.
373. wrt54g-linux
     http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/wrt54g/
     wrt54g-linux is a mini-distribution for the Linksys wrt54g 802.11b/g access point and router. It includes basic tools such as sh, syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, find, nfs modules, etc. The installation script runs in about 20 seconds and installs strictly to the RAM disk. The initial release, version 0.1, is dated September 6, 2003. BatBox wrt54g distribution v0.61 was released December 31, 2006.
374. xbox-linux
     http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/xbox-linux/
     The Xbox Linux project aims to create a version of GNU/Linux that runs on the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. Initial version 0.1 was released August 17, 2002. Version 0.2 was released August 26, 2002. Version 11-01-2003 was released January 17, 2003. Xebian 1.0.2 was released April 22, 2004.
375. Xorcom Rapid
     http://www.xorcom.com/
     Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that features an auto-install for Debian Linux and pre-configured Asterisk. It quickly and effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX. Version 1.0 was released February 6, 2005. Version 1.1 was the current version as of April 2007.
376. XtreemOS
     http://www.xtreemos.eu/
     The overall objective of the XtreemOS project is the design, implementation, evaluation and distribution of an open source Grid operating system (called XtreemOS) with native support for virtual organizations (VO) and capable of running on a wide range of underlying platforms, from clusters to mobiles.
377. Zenwalk
     http://www.zenwalk.org/
     Zenwalk was formerly known as Minislack, a lightweight Slackware derivative. Zenwalk Linux focuses on Internet applications, multimedia and coding tools. The first Zenwalk release, v1.2, was released August 12, 2005. The first ZenLive Linux LiveCD was released June 30, 2006. Zenwalk.fr has released ZenEdu-0.3 on December 17, 2006. Zenserver 0.5 was released June 13, 2007. ZenEdu Live Special Edition was released December 22, 2007. Zenwalk 5.0 was released January 18, 2008. Zenwalk Live 5.0 was released March 25, 2008. Zenwalk 5.2 was released June 7, 2008. Zenwalk Live 5.2 was released June 18, 2008. Zenwalk Gnome 5.2 was released August 24, 2008.
378. Zeroshell
     http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
     Zeroshell is a Linux distribution aimed at providing the main network services a LAN requires. It uses Netfilter and Linux iptables for firewalling. It runs from a live CD or bootable compact flash. Zeroshell 1.0.beta4 was released February 18, 2007.

     Floppy-based

379. a-Linux
     http://linuxassembly.org/asmutils.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/a-linux/
     a-Linux is an x86 floppy-based mini-distribution, where assembly code meets Linux kernel. It contains only programs written in assembly language. It is extemely small, yet functional, and provides HTTP and FTP services out-of-the-box. Initial version 0.17 was released August 17, 2002. BBIagent
     http://www.bbiagent.net/en/index.html
     BBIagent provides a suite of applications to create the software for booting a computer as a broadband router and firewall. Based on the hardware configurations and connection type, you are able to download your own boot file which is written into a single 1.44MB diskette to be a boot diskette for the router. This is a Linux based system which uses Java tools to create a bootable floppy with router software. The software utilites provided by BBIagent.Net are free to use. Version 1.5.0 was released July 11, 2002. Version 2.0.0 was the current version in April 2007.
380. blueflops
     http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/blueflops/
     blueflops is a Linux distribution that fits on two floppy disks, and includes a graphical Web browser (links 2.1pre9 using svgalib 1.4.3) and a popular IRC client (BitchX 1.0c19). The kernel is 2.4.20 with most of the Ethernet drivers compiled as modules. The C library is uClibc 0.9.16, busybox is a slightly modified version of 0.61.pre. The 'links' and 'BitchX' binaries are statically linked and compressed with UPX 1.90. The distinguishing feature of blueflops is its configuration procedure. The scripts are all accessible through a 'setup' script, and they all have a nice 'dialog' front-end. Version 1.0.0 was released April 15, 2003. Version 2.0.13 was released November 19, 2005.
381. bootE Linux
     http://boot.everywhere.dk/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/boote/
     bootE Linux is yet another minimalist (i386) Linux distribution and is contained entirely on a single floppy disk. It supports only single user mode, and is intended as a repair/rescue/emergency distribution. Initial version 0.10 was released April 18, 2002. Version 0.20-r2 was released August 30, 2003.
382. BYLD
     http://byld.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/byld
     Build Your Linux Disk (BYLD) is a little package that helps you to build a Linux distribution on a single floppy disk to use as you want. Build a net client, rescue disk or other small application. Version 1.0.3 was released November 25, 2000.
383. Coyote Linux
     http://www.coyotelinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/
     Coyote Linux v1.x (Floppy Release) is designed to run entirely from a floppy and does not require a hard drive or CDROM to be present in the system that it runs on. Creation of a Coyote Linux floppy can be done with either a Linux shell script or a Windows Wizard, both of which are available from the Coyote Linux download sites. Coyote Linux is used as the base OS in products such as the Wolverine Alpha 1 Firewall and VPN and the Fury IP Load Balancer. Coyote Linux 1.32 was released January 6, 2003. Coyote Linux 3.00.31 was released December 9, 2005. Coyote Linux v3.00.46 was released April 12, 2006.
384. Fd Linux
     http://www.fdlinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/fdlinux/
     Fd Linux is a very tiny floppy distribution of Linux, set to fit on one floppy disk (kernel and root fs are combined!). All binaries are based on Red Hat. Version 2.1-0 was released March 12, 2002. Version 3.0-0 was released March 10, 2003.
385. Fli4l (Floppy ISDN/DSL)
     http://www.fli4l.de/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/fli4l/
     Fli4l "the on(e)-disk-router", is a single floppy Linux-based ISDN, DSL and Ethernet-Router. You can build it from an old 486 based pc with 16 megabyte memory, which is more than adequate for this purpose. Stable version 2.0.8 was released April 27, 2003, adding the ability to install and boot from a USB memory stick or DiscOnChip. Development version 3.1.1 was released September 9, 2006. Stable version 3.0.2 was released December 25, 2006.
386. floppyfw
     http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/floppyfw/
     floppyfw is a router with firewall capabilities. Suitable for use as a screening router or as a packet filtering firewall. Version 2.0.3 was released October 3, 2002. floppyfw 3.0.2 was released May 27, 2007.
387. FREESCO
     http://www.freesco.org/
     http://www.freesco.info/
     FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. Mirror sites are available in Canada, Europe, Russia, and South Africa. Version 0.3.7 was released March 11, 2007.
388. Orange Linux
     http://orangelin.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/orangelin/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/orangelin/
     Orange Linux is a lightweight distribution that fits on a floppy. The host development environment is designed to work around the Bochs x86 emulator, so that you can easily test changes to the kernel. The initial release v1.0 was released March 11, 2003 and included a set of tools for making your own distribution, a VGA graphics library, and a small Pong game. By May 30, 2005 the project goals were updated; the aim is to create a fully operational operating system that is built around a lightweight, fast Java virtual machine mechanism (JamVM, JikesRVM), with applications built around Java and the scripting environment Jython (Python on Java). Version 0.1.17 was released May 21, 2005.
389. PAUD
     http://paud.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/paud
     PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility bootdisk. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs. It is great for partition maintenance and for rescue purposes. Version 1.0.3 was released July 8, 2002. Version 1.0.4 was released May 3, 2004. Version 2.0.3 was released December 25, 2005.
390. RIMiGate
     http://www.rimboy.com/rimdistro/rimigate/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/rimigate/
     RIMiGate is a floppy-based Linux distribution for running WA4DSY's aprsd. Its goal is to make it easy to deploy igates for the APRS project. Version 0.2 was released April 4, 2003.
391. Serverdisk diskette distro
     http://serverdisk.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/serverdisk/
     Serverdisk diskette distro is a Linux floppy disk distribution which includes FTP and HTTP servers. Just a small server, not intended to be a rescue disk or standalone firewall. The initial version, 0.1, was released September 19, 2002. Version 0.2 was released September 26, 2002.
392. Small Linux
     http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/smalllinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/smalllinux/
     A Small Kernel Project; Small Linux has been used (console based) on a 386 laptop with 2 meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive. Small Linux 0.8.1 was released December 6, 2001. Small Linux 0.9.0.1 was released August 6, 2004.
393. Tinfoil Hat Linux
     http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/
     Tinfoil Hat Linux started as a secure, single floppy, bootable Linux distribution for storing PGP keys and then encrypting, signing and wiping files. At some point it became an exercise in over-engineering. Now at version 1.0, THL is released under a BSD style license. A pre-release of v2.0 has been available for testing for several years now (10/200 .
394. Tomsrtbt
     http://www.toms.net/rb/
     "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk." Tom's Root Boot (tomsrtbt) is possibly the best known and widely used recovery disk version of Linux. Version 2.0.103 was released May 4, 2002.
395. X Windows On A Floppy (Xwoaf)
     http://www.modest-proposals.com/Hacklin.htm
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/xwoaf/
     Xwoaf is a complete standalone bootable Linux floppy that runs from a RAM disk. It provides the basic functionality required to turn any computer into a modern communication node. The initial public version, 0.1.0, was released March 18, 2004. Version 0.2.0g was released November 2, 2005.
396. Zool Linux
     http://zoollinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/zoollinux/
     Zool Linux is a project whose goal is to assist in making Linux mini-distributions, useful for floppy-based rescue systems, or to check hardware and network connections. It supports many different filesystems and utilities. Zool 1 is a Linux rescue disk based on the 2.2.23 kernel. Zool 2, released January 9, 2003, is based on the 2.4.18 kernel. Zool 5 was released May 18, 2004.

     CD-based

     Some of these are for system rescue tasks. Some are full featured distributions (on a single CD) that can run anywhere, school labs, Internet cafes, on a Windows system where ever you are.

397. ADIOS
     http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/adios/
     The ADIOS Project (Automated Download and Installation of Operating Systems), by the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, is a live Linux CD based on Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core and a 2.4 series kernel. Version 1.01 was released February 26, 2003. ADIOS 7.4, released May 22, 2007, was released with a 2.6.20 kernel. ADIOSWEBS 7.4 is the Security Enhanced Linux version of ADIOSWEB, released May 24, 2007.
398. AliXe
     http://pages.ccapcable.com/alisou/cms/?AliXe
     AliXe is a SLAX-based Live CD from Canada. AliXe v0.09 ICE edition, released November 20, 2006, is a bilingual live CD (English & French). It's based on SLAX and features IceWM with lots of GTK2 applications. AliXe 0.10 ICE rc1 was released January 11, 2007. AliXe 0.11 Xfce was released September 22, 2007.
399. Archie
     http://user-contributions.org/archie.html
     Archie is a complete live Arch linux system (originally based on v0.7) to be run from a CD/USB, built with the KISS philosophy in mind. This is a full Arch Linux system, while striving for the fastest performance with no extensive bloating. Archie uses its own hardware detection tool (lshwd) and supports a wide range of hardware with low detection time. Archie also provides extended features like multi-lingual, nesting capabilities and hd-install. Archie v0.4.1 was released April 15, 2005.
400. ATmission
     http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atmission/
     ATmission is a Live Linux CD based on Fedora Core 4. You can boot from this CD-ROM and experiment with Linux in all its aspects. The main advantage of ATmission compared to other Live Linux CD's is its flexibility. Any file on the ATmission Live CD can be modified and your changes can be preserved in a file located on hard disk or on a USB memory stick. Version 2.0-01 was released September 26, 2005.
401. AUSTRUMI
     http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.html
     AUSTRUMI is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware. The current version was 0.9.7 when the entry was added on August 13, 2005. Version 1.2.0 was released May 9, 2006. Version 1.5.0 was released June 1, 2007.
402. BeaFanatIX
     http://bea.cabarel.com/index.php?page=BeaFanatIX
     BeaFanatIX is a mini Live CD. It's also a compact Linux distribution. It was originally a remaster of BeatrIX but now uses a more recent Ubuntu core. BeatrIX itself is partly based on an old version of Ubuntu, but makes heavy use of Knoppix technologies. The common ancestor of all these distributions is Debian. BeaFanatIX joins the list at v2006.2 beta6, released October 23, 2006. BeaFanatIX 2006.2 revision 3 was released June 3, 2007.
403. CDLinux
     http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cdlinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdlinux/
     CDlinux is a CD based mini Linux distribution, which runs from a CDROM. It aims to be an administration/rescue tool for Eastern Asian (CJK) users. CDlinux is also highly user configureable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA/SCSI/USB). Version 0.4.3 was released June 10, 2003. Version 0.4.9 (stable) was released February 21, 2005. Version 0.6.2 (stable) was released October 10, 2008.
404. Crash Recovery Kit
     http://crashrecovery.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/crk/
     The Crash Recovery Kit for Linux was originally based on Red Hat Linux Newer version are based on Mandrake Linux. It can be used as a recovery disc for lots of systems, not just Linux. All Linux filesystems as well as FAT16 and FAT32 are supported. Version 2.4.18 was released March 31, 2002. Version 2.6.7-mdk100 and crash247-mdk100.iso, based on Mandrake 10.0 (i586), was released July 7, 2004. CRK 2.6.11.10 was released May 18, 2005.
405. Damn Small Linux
     http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
     Damn Small Linux - Not
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/damnsmalllinux/
     Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite it's miniscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. The initial freshmeat announcement for version 0.1 was released March 19, 2003. DSL now boots from a USB pen drive, or from within a host OS. With a "frugal install" DSL will run from an IDE Compact Flash drive. DSL transforms into a Debian system when installed to a hard drive. Damn Small Linux- Not is a larger, more fully featured version. DSL-N 0.1RC3 was released July 24, 2006. DSL 4.3 was released April 22, 2008. DSL 4.4.4 was released August 10, 2008.
406. Debian From Scratch
     http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/
     DFS is a bootable CD that can be used for system repair/rescue. DFS is a way to create custom builds of Debian using the DFSbuild utility. DFS begain as the first installer for the amd64 port of Debian. The initial version was released May 21, 2004. Version 0.99.0 was released April 20, 2006.
407. Devil-Linux
     http://www.devil-linux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/devillinux/
     Devil-Linux is a distribution which boots and runs from CDROM. The configuration can be saved to a floppy diskette or a USB pen drive (new in 1.0). Devil Linux was originally intended to be a dedicated firewall/router but now Devil-Linux can also be used as a server for many applications. Attaching an optional hard drive is easy, and many network services are included. Devil-Linux 0.5RC1 (Beta) was released May 30, 2002. Stable Devil-Linux v1.2.15 was released July 25, 2008.
408. dyne:bolic GNU/Linux
     http://www.dynebolic.org/
     Pure:dyne
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/dynebolic/
     dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable CDROM that will give you a Linux desktop on any machine with a CD drive. Comes with audio streaming, realtime video effects, and Mozilla web browser. Pure:dyne is a community effort maintained by media artists for media artists. Pure:dyne is a customization of the dyne:II core for realtime audio and video processing. Comes optimized for software such as Jack, SuperCollider, Csound, Fluxus and of course Pure Data with a great collection of externals (PDP, PiDiP, Gem, GridFlow, RRadical, PixelTango...). The initial version of Dyne:bolic 0.3.1 was released February 17, 2002. dyne:bolic 2.3 DHORUBA Solid State (for solid state devices) was released November 21, 2006. pure:dyne 2.3.52 was released March 22, 2007. Version 2.5.2, codename DHORUBA, was released December 3, 2007.
409. ELE
     http://www.northernsecurity.net/download/ele/
     ELE is a bootable Live CD Linux distribution with focus on privacy related software. It is based on Damn Small Linux and aims to be (obviously) as small as possible. The initial version of ELE, v0.0.1, was released March 9, 2005. Version 0.0.2 was released March 23, 2005.
410. Feather Linux
     http://featherlinux.berlios.de/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/featherlinux/
     Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD and takes up under 50Mb of space. It is suitable especially for business-card sized CDs. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day on their desktop. Feather joins the list at version 0.2, released November 30, 2003. Version 0.7.5 was released July 1, 2005.
411. Finnix
     http://www.finnix.org/
     Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators. You can mount hard drives, set up network devices, repair filesystems, and pretty much do anything you can do with a regular server distribution. Finnix is not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops, productivity tools, or sound support, in order to keep distribution size low. Finnix 86.0 was released October 24, 2005. Version 92.0 was released June 28, 2008.
412. Games Knoppix
     http://games-knoppix.org/
     Games Knoppix is live CD/DVD with lots of games. This entry was added March 31, 2006 at version 4.0.2-0.3 DVD. A bugfix release of Games Knoppix 5.1-0.5 was underway in January 2007.
413. Gibraltar
     http://www.gibraltar.at/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/gibraltar/
     Gibraltar is a project that aims to produce a Debian GNU/Linux-based router and firewall package. This package boots and runs from CD-ROM, so a hard disk installation is not necessary. Version 0.99.6 was released January 13, 2003. Version 2.5 was released September 10, 2007. Gibraltar 2.6 was released July 17, 2008.
414. GNOPPIX
     http://www.gnoppix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnoppix/
     GNOPPIX is a live Linux CD based upon Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). It can be compared to Knoppix but GNOPPIX uses GNOME as desktop environment. The aim is to create a GUI installation tool to make installing GNU/Linux with a GNOME desktop as easy as possible. GNOPPIX joins the list at version 0.5, released September 8, 2003. Gnoppix 2.12 beta1 was released September 7, 2005.
415. Gnu-HALO
     http://halo.willisburg.org/
     The Gnu-HALO project started out as BSD-HALO before switching to the L4Linux 2.6 kernel. The initial build was based on SLAX Standard Edition v 5.1.6. The Gnu-HALO alpha 0.1 Linux Live CD was released June 19, 2006.
416. GNUstep Live CD
     http://io.debian.net/~tar/gnustep/
     The GNUstep Live CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also used as the base for Cocoa in Mac OS X). The initial version, 0.2, was released February 2004. Version 1.0 was released November 6, 2006. GNUstep CD v1.6 was released April 4, 2008. GNUSTEP CD 1.9 was released July 17, 2008.
417. GoblinX
     http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/
     GoblinX is Slackware-based Live CD, directed towards those users who appreciate quality applications and a workspace that is both practical and beautiful. GoblinX contains some of the most often used and praised applications for Linux. Version 1.2.1 was released in early November 2005. GoblinX Premium 2006.1 was released February 5, 2006. GoblinX Mini 1.2.2 was released February 22, 2006. GoblinX Mini 2.0.0 was released April 9, 2007. GoblinX Standard 2.0 (2007.1) was released April 30, 2007. GoblinX Mini 2.5.was released October 31, 2007. GoblinX Micro 2.6 was released January 23, 2008. GoblinX Mini 2.6 was released February 2, 2008. GoblinX Standard 2.6 was released February 18, 2008. GoblinX Mini 2.7 was released June 26, 2008. GoblinX Standard 2.7 rc1 was released June 19, 2008. GoblinX Micro 2.7 was released July 3, 2008. GoblinX Premium 2008.2 was released July 26, 2008.
418. GRML
     http://grml.org/
     grml is a live CD based on Knoppix and Debian with a collection of GNU/Linux software for system administrators. It provides automatic hardware detection and can be used for system rescue, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. GRML version 0.4 (Eierspass) was released May 15, 2005. A smaller version grml-small fits on a business card CD-ROM or USB device. The initial version of grml-small, 0.1, was released July 5, 2005. grml 0.9 and grml-small 0.3 were released December 7, 2006. grml 1.0 - codename Meilenschwein - was released May 18, 2007. grml 1.1 (Skunk), grml64 0.2 and grml-medium 0.1 were released February 26, 2008.
419. Groovix
     http://groovix.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1
     &products_id=1
     Download a demo disc
     Open Sense Solutions offers the Groovix Kiosk Disk, a live Linux CD based on Debian, that can turn any computer into a public access computer. It is set up to run in single-user mode, presenting a Firefix web browser on boot-up. Open Sense Solutions will customize a CD/DVD to your business needs.
420. Hakin9 Live
     http://www.hakin9.org/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/hakin9live/
     Hakin9 Live is a bootable distribution (based on Aurox Live) which contains hacking, security, and network diagnostic tools. Hakin9 joins the list at version 0.9, released October 28, 2003. Version 2.4 was released January 18, 2005. Hakin9 3.1.2-aur, based on Aurox 12.0, was the current version on August 9, 2007.
421. Hikarunix
     http://www.hikarunix.org/
     Hikarunix ["hee-kah-roo-nix"] is a Live Linux CD dedicated to Go. It's designed for Go players of all levels. It will fit on a pocket-sized miniCD and can boot on just about any machine, so you can take your Go workstation with you almost anywhere. Installation to a harddrive is also supported. Version 0.2 was released November 2004. Version 0.3 was released January 16, 2005. The current version was 0.4 as of July 9, 2007.
422. INSERT
     http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
     German: http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/insert/
     INSERT (INside SEcurity Rescue Toolkit) is a complete, bootable Linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM. The first release we know of is v1.0, announced August 4, 2003. Version 1.3.9b was released February 27, 2007.
423. IsaMorph
     http://www.brucker.ch/projects/isamorph/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/isamorph/
     IsaMorph is a highly specialized GNU/Linux Live CD. It's based on Morphix and features the interactive theorem prover Isabelle, for a complete theorem proving environment. IsaMorph joins the list at version 0.2.1, released July 29, 2004. Version 0.9 was released December 22, 2005.
424. KANOTIX
     http://kanotix.com/
     KANOTIX is a KNOPPIX based live CD using mostly Debian sid packages optimized for i586. Also available for x86-64. KANOTIX "BUG HUNTER" 08-2004 was announced September 20, 2004. KANOTIX 2006 Preview, CeBIT-Version, was released March 10, 2006. KANOTX 2006-01-RC4 is available for testing. After years of chasing Debian unstable (sid), KANOTIX will be shifting to a more stable base. Debian Etch based Kanotix 2007 (Thorhammer) RC7 was released January 1, 2008.
425. KAZIT
     http://kazit.berlios.de/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/kazit/
     KAZIT is a KNOPPIX-based bootable CD translated into Hebrew. It features a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression. KAZIT Beta 2 was released September 20, 2004.
426. Klax
     http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/klax/
     Klax is an i486 GNU/Linux Live-CD, very similar to Slax because it's created with the same Linux Live scripts, but based on Slackware Linux 10.1 and it contains KDE 3.4 Beta 2 code-named "Keinstein". Klax Live-CD 3.4.2 includes KDE 3.4.2. Klax with KDE 3.5 RC 1 was released November 13, 2005.
427. knopILS
     http://knopils.linux.it/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/knopils/
     knopILS is a customized version of Knoppix that has an Italian boot prompt, default keyboard, and default language. Each .deb package installed belongs to the free tree of Debian GNU/Linux, or could be classified as such if it is not an official one. Localized .deb files are present when available, and minor changes were made to graphics. The initial version was 0.1, released June 12, 2003. Version 0.8 was released May 17, 2005.
428. Knoppix 64
     http://www.applia.fr/contents/knoppix64.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/knoppix64/
     This version of Linux is a 64 bit Debian based release for 64 bit AMD machines. The initial release, v3.4-EN-2004-05-31, is remastered from KNOPPIX 3.4. The goal of this work is to provide a 64 bit development environment along with the usual desktop tools. Language support includes English, French and German.
429. KnoppiXMAME
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame
     http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/knoppixmame/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/knoppixmame/
     KnoppiXMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame. Stable version 1.0 was released June 18, 2003. Version 1.3 beta 19 was released May 11, 2004.
430. Linux4all.de
     http://www.linux4all.de/livecd/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpm-livelinuxcd/
     rpm-livelinuxcd started out as a 120MB RedHat-based Live CD. Initial version 0.9 was released March 5, 2003. Workstation version 1.3 was released June 12, 2004. Basilisk Workstation v1.40 was released November 29, 2004.
431. Linux Live
     http://www.linux-live.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxlivescripts/
     Linux Live is a set of bash scripts which allows users to create their own live CD from any Linux distribution. It joins the list at version 3.0.27, released January 21, 2004. Version 5.1.8 was released September 26, 2005. Linux Live 6.1.4 was released May 26, 2007.
432. Linux LiveCD
     http://www.wifi.com.ar/english/
     Spanish: http://www.wifi.com.ar/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrouter/
     Linux LiveCD is a small and simple LiveCD distribution aimed at broadband and wifi users. Does not require installation, does not require a hard disk. There are commerical version of Linux LiveCD Firewall and Linux LiveCD HotSpot, with features like easy web configuration and management, vpn, traffic control and QoS, virus, spam and web content filtering. Linux LiveCD Router version 1.5 was released under the GNU GPL on November 10, 2003. Linux LiveCD Router 2.0.24 was released June 20, 2007.
433. Lisp Resource Kit
     http://www.common-lisp.net/project/lisp-res-kit/
     The Lisp Resource Kit is a dedicated development/learning environment on a self-booting CD. It is designed to be an easy to use single resource for those who are interested in exploring Common Lisp, regardless of their experience or domain of expertise. The initial public release was on January 20, 2004 at Linux World Expo in New York City. A version remastered from Knoppix 3.7 was released December 23, 2004.
434. Local Area Security Linux
     http://www.localareasecurity.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/las/
     L.A.S. Linux is a 'Live CD' distribution based on Knoppix but with a strong emphasis on security tools and small footprint. There is a 185 MB version and a 210 MB version. The initial announcement was for version 0.3b on August 8, 2003. Version 0.5 MAIN was released April 7, 2004. The 210 MB version is at 0.5, released March 5, 2004.
435. Lonix
     http://lonix.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/lonix/
     Lonix is a console-based full Linux system which runs from a live CD. Based on Linux From Scratch, this distribution includes useful utilities for students and developers. Some servers, such as Apache, Proftpd, and sshd are pre-configured and included. It can also be used as a partition tool (featuring fdisk and parted) or as a rescue CD. Currently, the homepage and some scripts in the CD are just in Spanish. There may be a future release that is also in English. The initial Freshmeat announcement for version 1.0rc3, was made on October 13, 2002. Version 1.0rc5 was released October 27, 2002.
436. MkCDrec
     http://mkcdrec.ota.be/
     mkCDrec makes a bootable disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the Linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape. After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run). The current version was 0.9.7 as of June 10, 2007.
437. Morphix
     http://www.morphix.org/
     Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-CD support. No configuration is necessary, just burn the CD and boot it. Morphix is partly based on KNOPPIX, the rest comes directly from Debian. The initial version, 0.3-2, was released February 27, 2003. Morphix Base 0.5-pre6 'Amalthea', MorphixLiveKiosk 0.01 and MorphingMorphix v 0.3 were all released as part of Morphix SVN Commit Day, September 5, 2006. Medianix, a Morphix-based Asterisk PBX, released version 0.7, May 21, 2007.
438. Olive
     http://web.isteve.bofh.cz/olive/
     Olive is a GNU/Linux Live CD distribution that offers both new technologies and some of the more common pieces of software. It is small, but useful. The current version was 0.2 when this entry was added, June 20, 2006.
439. Phrealon Linux
     http://www.halfling.org/phrealon/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/phrealon/
     Phrealon is a bootable Linux CD based on Slackware Linux 8.0 designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple workstations. It utilizes the updcast set of Linux tools to accomplish this. The initial release, version 0.80, was released November 7, 2002. Version 0.96 was released January 30, 2004.
440. Plan-B Linux
     http://www.projectplanb.org/
     Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in RAM or from the CD, based on a basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD. Contains many tools for emergency system rescue work. Plan-B version 1.0 was released July 5, 2003.
441. PlumpOS
     http://plumpos.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/plumpos/
     PlumpOS is a CD-based mini-openMosix/Linux distribution. Pop the CD into a 586+ computer and you have an instant openMosix node. It supports loading 3rd-party packages and adding custom kernels. It was originally a clone of Clump/os, but it turned into a complete rewrite. Version 6.9 RC1 was released March 27, 2003. Version 7.0-pre3 was still in progress as of February 1, 2005.
442. PUD GNU/Linux
     http://pud-linux.sourceforge.net/en/
     PUD is a mini (less than 200MB) Linux live CD with a complete desktop and support for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW). The current stable branch is based on Knoppix and the 0.5 development branch is Ubuntu based. PUD v0.4.6.6 was released September 29, 2006. PUD LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) Edition was released December 8, 2006. Development version 0.4.8, based on Ubuntu 7.10, was released October 28, 2007. PUD GNU/Linux v0.4.8.5, a beta release based on Ubuntu 8.04, was released March 21, 2008. PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.8.6 LXDE Edition was released April 4, 2008. xPUD 0.8 was released August 11, 2008.
443. Quantian
     http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
     The Quantian Scientific Computing Environment is a Knoppix / Debian variant tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis. Quantian is an extension of Knoppix from which it takes its base system of about 2.0 gigabytes of software, along with fully automatic hardware detection and configuration, then Quantian adds a set of programs of interest to applied or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields. Version 0.3 (based on ClusterKnoppix) was released June 10, 2003. Version 0.7.9.2 was released March 1, 2006.
444. Salvare
     http://salvare.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/salvare/
     Salvare (from the Latin "to rescue") is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. Initial version 0.1.0 was released July 2, 2003. Version 0.1.5 was released November 1, 2004.
445. SAM
     http://sam.hipsurfer.com/
     SAM is a desktop distribution based on Mandriva Linux and PCLinuxOS. SAM aims to be easy to configure, to update or to enhance through the Mandriva Control Center and comes with some 3rd party applications like Macromedia Flash, Java and RealPlayer. You can work right from the live CD or install SAM permanently to the hard disk. SAM joined the list at TestRelease 1.0, released September 28, 2004. SAM 2008 "claw" release candiate 1 was releaesd December 25, 2007.
446. sidux
     http://sidux.com/
     sidux was formed by a group of people who strive to do the impossible: making Debian Sid (aka "Unstable") stable. The goal is becoming the best Debian Sid based live distro with special focus on clean and easy hard disk install. Strategic milestones and 3-4 planned releases timetabled will give stability and accountability to corporate and home users with a demand for bleeding edge software running on modern hardware, and a definable path over time. sidux joined the list December 6, 2006, shortly after its inception. sidux 2007-04.5 "christmas special" was released December 26, 2007. sidux 2008-01 was released April 12, 2008. sidux-seminarix, an educational project that merges Seminarix with the base of sidux, released v2008-01 April 15, 2008. sidux 2008-03 was released September 22, 2008.
447. SLAX-Live CD
     http://slax.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/slax/
     SLAX-Live CD is a bootable live CD based on Slackware Linux distribution. All the scripts and source code are included to build your own live CD, or just download the ISO image. Version 2.9.0.22 was released September 22, 2003. Version 5.1.6 was released May 23, 2006. Version 5.1.7 Standard edition was released July 22, 2006. SLAX 5.1.8 was released October 9, 2006. Slax 6.x has a Slackware 12.0 base. Slax 6.0.3 was released March 18, 2008.
448. Studio to Go!
     http://www.ferventsoftware.com/
     Studio to Go! is a live CD from Fervent Software with integrated music software such as Rosegarden, Ardour, LilyPond and so much more. While not 100% free software (speech or beer), Studio to Go! will be a good addition to any musician's repertoire. Studio to Go! v1.50 Download Edition was released November 28, 2005. Studio to Go! v2.0 was released April 17, 2007.
449. STUX
     http://www.gpstudio.com/stux/
     STUX comes in two live CD versions. The first one (called "STUX") is a full-featured 650MB CD with a complete KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker, OpenOffice and other major applications. The second product (called "DINO-STUX") is a small CD reduced to 255MB of data with KDE, KOffice, Mozilla, Samba and Xine, but not much else beyond the base system. The STUX project also provides tools for building a custom bootable CD image from an existing Linux installation. Version 0.9.2 was released November 10, 2006. STUX GNU/Linux 2.0 was released September 9, 2008.
450. Timo's Rescue CD
     http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/
     Timo provides an easy way to generate a rescue system on a bootable CD, which can be easily adapted to your own needs. The project has evolved into a "Debian on CD" project, so it's not only possible to use the system as a rescue CD, it is also possible to install a whole Debian system on CD. Works with other distributions as well. Version 0.9.12r2 was released January 1, 2005.
451. Trinity Rescue Kit
     http://trinityhome.org/trk/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/trk/
     The Trinity Rescue Kit is based on Mandrake/Mandriva. It is designed to rescue/repair/prepare dead or damaged systems, be it Linux or Windows. It now has networking capabilities like ssh and samba and supports about every network card, disk controller and USB controller. Version 1.1 was released July 7, 2003. TRK 3.2 was released January 19, 2007. TRK 3.3 build 310 (beta) was released January 17, 2008.
452. Wolvix
     http://wolvix.org/
     The Wolvix GNU/Linux LiveCD is a desktop oriented system based on SLAX. Wolvix allows you to surf the Internet, read email, chat with friends, watch movies in various file formats including DVD, listen to your favorite music, create graphics and webpages, and more, including plenty of games. Wolvix 1.0.4 was released December 1, 2005. A Games Edition was released December 11, 2005. Wolvix Media Edition 1.0.4 was released April 24, 2006. Wolvix 1.1.0 (Cub & Hunter) was released August 3, 2007.
453. X-Evian
     http://www.x-evian.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-evian/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/x-evian/
     X-Evian is a complete Debian GNU/Linux operating system compilation that comes with 300Mb of copyleft material for the socialization of knowledge and technologies. X-Evian joins the list at version 0.4.1-beta, released June 1, 2004. X-Evian 0.7 was released September 16, 2006.
454. Xfld
     http://www.xfld.org/
     Xfld is 'Xfce live demo', a GNU/Linux operating system (derived from Knoppix) that can be run completely from CD. It features an up-to-date Xfce as desktop environment. The initial version of Xfld uses Xfce 4.1 and is derived from Knoppix 3.4. Xfld 0.2 was released January 16, 2005. Version 0.3, released October 29, 2006, is based on Xubuntu and features Xfce 4.4.
455. Zeroshell
     http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
     Zeroshell is a Live CD distribution aimed at providing the main network services a LAN requires. It is also available as a 128MB Compact Flash image useful if you have to boot your box from this device instead from CDROM. Zeroshell 1.0.0 is in progress. ZeroShell 1.0.beta7 was released September 16, 2007.

     Zip disk-based

456. NBROK
     http://www.stack.nl/~nick/nbroklinux.html
     If you have an unused 100 or 250 MB ZIP-drive around, give it a new goal. Use it to run Linux. No hard disk or ramdisk required.
457. ZipSlack
     http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
     ZipSlack is a special edition of Slackware Linux that can be installed onto any FAT (or FAT32) filesystem with about 100 MB of free space. It uses the UMSDOS filesystem and contains most of the programs you will need. This means that you do not need to repartition your hard disk if you already have DOS or Windows installed. ZipSlack installs into a directory on your DOS filesystem. It can also be installed to and booted from a Zip disk.

     Small Disk

458. BasicLinux
     http://basiclinux.com.ru/
     http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/baslinux/
     BasicLinux is a mini-Linux designed specifically for old PCs. It provides a slim 2.2.16 kernel, a user-friendly shell and a good assortment of utilities. BasicLinux includes a web browser, comm program, mail client, telnet client, wget, dhcp and dial-up ppp. It also includes a small-footprint GUI and is able to run remote X (via network) with as little as 4mb RAM. Version 1 was based on Slackware 3.5 with later version based on Slackware 7.1. Version 1.7 was released May 12, 2002. Version 3.50 was released May 31, 2007.
459. TA-Linux
     http://talinux.tal.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/talinux/
     TA-Linux is a small, multiplatform Linux distribution. It comes with just enough to be usable and it's easy to customize to some particular use. TA-Linux sparc pre-0.2.0-test was released June 6, 2002. A major rewrite of TA-Linux, version 0.2.0-Preview1, was released July 6, 2002. TA-Linux 0.2.0-Beta1 (Alpha) was released August 15, 2002. Version 0.2.0 RC1 (i386) was released December 7, 2004. An unstable branch was actively developed. The changelog for details.
460. ttylinux
     http://www.minimalinux.org/ttylinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttylinux/
     ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can run in as little as 2.88 megabytes of space. It will provide only a text-based interface, but it enables you to dial into the Internet and surf web pages even on a low-end machine. Version 3.2 was released July 7, 2003. Version 6.2 was released October 30, 2007.
461. VectorLinux
     http://www.vectorlinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/vectorlinux/
     VECTORLINUX is a small, fast, Intel Linux operating system based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. VectorLinux strives to be a bloat free, easy to install, configure and maintain Slackware based system. The average user can have a fully functional Slackware Linux system up in as little as 15 minutes, using VectorLinux. Version 2.5 was released April 2, 2002. Vector 5.0 SOHO was released February 21, 2005. Vector Linux-5.8 SOHO was released September 12, 2007. VectorLinux 5.8 live CD GOLD final was released May 28, 2007. VectorLinux Standard 5.9 was released December 21, 2007. VectorLinux 5.9 live CD beta1 was released December 31, 2007. VL64-5.9-beta1 (optimized for 64-bit architectures) was released January 9, 2008. VL5.9 Beta1 Light was released February 11, 2008. VectorLinux-SOHO-5.9-preview liveCD was released April 8, 2008. VectorLinux SOHO-DELUXE 5.9.1 was released September 23, 2008. VectorLinux 6.0 alpha2 was released September 1, 2008. VectorLinux 5.9 STD LIVE CD and the first 5.9-Light beta live CD were released September 28, 2008.

     Wireless

462. Bambi Linux
     ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/bambi/
     A Red Hat based wireless distribution. Bambi 7.0 was released April 13, 2003. Now Bambi seems to be working on wireless packages for CentOS. CentOS 5.1 packages were released December 4, 2007.

     Hardware-specific

     (Alpha)

463. AlphaLinux.org
     http://www.alphalinux.org/
     A resource for Linux on Alpha processors.

     AMD64

464. Bluewhite64 Linux Project
     http://www.bluewhite64.com/
     The Bluewhite 64 Linux project is an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the AMD64 architecture. Bluewhite64-current v20060609 was available when this entry was added to the list. Bluewhite64 12.0 was released July 16, 2007. Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Live DVD was released August 6, 2007. Bluewhite64 miniLive was released November 20, 2007. Bluewhite64 12.0-Live-DVD-r1 was released February 4, 2008. Bluewhite64 12.1 was released May 4, 2008. Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD and Flash was released May 26, 2008. Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 KDE4 LiveDVD RC1 was released August 25, 2008. Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1R1 "LiveDVD" was released October 7, 2008.

     (PA-RISC)

465. PA-RISC Linux
     http://parisc-linux.org/
     On December 11, 2001 the PA-RISC Linux development community announced version 0.9.3, the latest version of Linux for computers using Hewlett Packard's PA-RISC processor. This site continues to track Linux distributions that support HPPA, including Debian and Gentoo.

     (PowerPC)

466. Mupper
     http://www.mupper.org/
     Mupper is a rescue-CD project for the PegasosPPC. It is based on Gentoo Linux and contains various tools like parted, midnight-commander and support for various filesystems including FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS and EXT3. The live CD also includes some network tools such as snort and tcpdump. Mupper joins the list at version 0.3 which was released August 28, 2005. Mupper v1.0 was released October 30, 2005. The first version of mupper for the efika was released December 13, 2006.
467. PenguinPPC.org
     http://penguinppc.org/
     PenguinPPC.org does not provide a complete distribution, but it is a good resource for information about Linux on a wide range of different PowerPC-based machines, ranging from small embedded systems, through desktop systems such as the Apple Power Macintoshes and clones, to high-end servers such as IBM's eServer pSeries (RS/6000) and iSeries (AS/400) range.
468. Slackintosh
     http://workaround.ch/
     The Slackintosh Project aims to get Slack on your Macintosh. Version 10.2 was released October 30, 2005. Slackintosh 11.0 was released October 8, 2006. Slackintosh 12.0 was released July 15, 2007. Slackintosh 12.1 was released June 7, 2008.
469. Yellow Dog
     http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
     This Resources Page provides an overview of the Lifecycle of Yellow Dog Linux and includes a guide to Manual, Semi-Automated, and Fully Automated methods of updating your local YDL system. Yellow Dog Linux is a complete, Red Hat and RPM based operating system for PowerPC computers. YDL may co-exist with Mac OS in a dual-boot environment or replace the Mac OS on "New World ROM" machines. YDL offers a graphical installer, KDE & GNOME, and loads of applications to fulfill server, code developer, and home/office needs. YDL 3.0 was released March 19, 2003. The 64-bit YDL v4.0.90 was released April 27, 2005. YDL v5.0.2 was released June 14, 2007. YDL 6.0 for Sony PS3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p was released February 5, 2008.

     (Sparc)

470. Aurora Sparc Project
     http://auroralinux.org/
     This Sparc Linux distribution was originally based on Red Hat 7.3. Build 0.2 was announced on December 4, 2001. Build 0.4 (Titanium) was released September 26, 2002. The first Fedora Core 2 based tree of Aurora SPARC Linux, Build-1.91 (Code Name Wombat), was released May 29, 2004. Aurora Build-2.0 (FC3-based) was released April 14, 2006. Aurora 3.0 is FC6 based. Build 2.99 (3.0 beta 2) was released November 30, 2007.

     Via Epia

     The only Epia project left on this list is freepia, which is in the historical section.

     XO

471. DebXO
     http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/
     DebXO provides a Debian-based system for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop. debxo-0.1 was released October 26, 2008. debxo-0.3 was released October 28, 2008.
472. XO Software
     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
     XO Software is a Fedora-based system developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The XO and its software is designed specifically for the educational benefit of children in the developing world. XO Software Release 8.2.0 became available October 15, 2008.

     (Older Intel)

473. ClarkConnect
     http://www.clarkconnect.org/
     ClarkConnect is a Red Hat based distribution which can can transform standard PC hardware into a dedicated broadband gateway and easy-to-use server. The software is a great solution for small businesses, home offices, and networked homes. ClarkConnect version 1.1 was released July 31, 2002. ClarkConnect Firewall/VPN Edition 2.2 was released May 11, 2004. ClarkConnect Office Edition 3.1 was released July 13, 2005. ClarkConnect Professional Edition 3.1 was released July 19, 2005. ClarkConnect 4.0 was released September 18, 2006 with an Enterprise Edition and a Community Edition. ClarkConnect 4.1 was released April 19, 2007. ClarkConnect 4.2 was released October 25, 2007. Enterprise and Office Editions of v4.2 were released November 21, 2007. ClarkConnect 4.3 was released August 12, 2008.
474. RULE
     http://rule-project.org/
     The RULE (Run Up2date Linux Everywhere) project makes an existing distribution install and run on older hardware. Specifically, it takes standard Red Hat Linux (now Fedora), adds a custom installer, provides resource-friendly RPM package lists, and packages alternative light-weight GPL applications. The advantage of this approach is that the original distribution provides all the patches and documentation, reducing the maintenance load for RULE. The RULE Project was started in February 2002. The current installer "slinky" was released August 28, 2007, for use with Fedora 7.

     DOS/Windows install

475. andLinux
     http://www.andlinux.org/
     http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/AndLinux
     andLinux is a complete Linux distribution that runs seamlessly in Windows. There is no need to partition, dual boot, configure or dedicate a machine. Users will have a complete Linux environment running along with Windows in a matter of minutes. The Proof Of Concept v2.1 was released March 5, 2006. The Proof Of Concept release was based on Debian unstable. The latest release is a PreBeta, based on Ubuntu's Edgy Eft, dated November 7, 2006. Beta 1 is "will be out soon" as of January 3, 2008.
476. Cooperative Linux
     http://www.colinux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/colinux/
     Cooperative Linux (or CoLinux) is a version of the Linux kernel that provides a method for running Linux natively under Microsoft Windows without commercial PC virtualization software. Development of CoLinux began in late 2003, with early releases in January 2004. CoLinux 0.7.2 was released November 18, 2007.
477. TopologiLinux
     http://www.topologilinux.com/
     http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/
     TopologiLinux is a free easy to install Linux distribution that runs on top of a DOS/WIN harddisk without partitioning the disk. Version 1.0, released August 25, 2002, was based on Slackware 8.1. Topologilinux 5.1.0 was released Januray 3, 2005. Topologilinux 6.1.0 was released April 12, 2007. Topologilinux 7.0 rc1 was released June 5, 2008.

     Diskless Terminal

478. ariane
     http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/ariane/00-WikiIndex
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/ariane/
     ariane is a console-only Linux system. It boots from CD-ROM into RAM and does not require a hard disk. It can also be booted from PXE or USB. It can be used for everything a minimal Linux system could be used for. ariane joins the list at version 434/51, released May 1, 2004. ariane version 2 is a minimal Debian system that runs in RAM. Version 2.0.4 was released August 29, 2007.
479. K12LTSP
     http://www.k12ltsp.org/
     K12Linux for Fedora
     K12LTSP is a terminal server appliance distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux. It's easy to install and configure. Version 4.0, based on Fedora Core 1, was released December 17, 2003. K12LTSP (Fedora + LTSP) 6.0.0 was released December 24, 2006. Fedora 9 based K12Linux Terminal Server RC1 was released October 16, 2008.
480. LTSP
     http://www.ltsp.org/
     The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is all about running thin client computers in a GNU/Linux environment. Version 3.0 was announced January 7, 2002. LTSP 4.1.1 was released April 19, 2005. Best Of Show at the 2005 Linux World Conference and Expo in San Francisco. LTSP-5 packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu and other distributions since March 2007.
481. PXES Linux Thin Client
     http://www.2x.com/pxes/
     http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
     PXES will convert any compliant hardware into a versatile thin client capable of accessing any Microsoft Terminal Server through RDP protocol. (Future versions will include XDM, VNC and other protocols). This thin client boots from the network. Version 0.4 was released March 27, 2002. PXES Universal Linux Thin Client v1.0 was released November 28, 2005. PXES is now supported by 2X, which offers the commercially available and supported 2X ThinClientServer. 2X ThinClientServer PXES edition 3.0 was released July 6, 2006. The free download requires registration.
482. Safedesk Terminal Server Project
     http://www.safedesk.com/
     The Safedesk Terminal Server Project is an open source project based on Debian Live Net. This Linux terminal server project offers local USB storage, sound and streaming video support and the design allows one server with a gigabit port to serve as many as 100+ clients at a time. The Safedesk 3.1.1 open source edition was released May 16, 2006.

     Historical (Non-active)

     We only list distributions which have a valid website. It may still be possible to download the source code for these inactive distributions, but we make no guarantees. Some of these projects might not have ever gotten that far. There may be other historical distributions listed above.

483. Alcolix
     http://alcolix.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67784 http://freshmeat.net/projects/alcolix/
     alcolix is a minimal Linux rescue distribution with the goals of being small, compatible, and very usable. It has a cozy shell and a multitude of partition rescue/editing tools, all based on up-to-date releases (e.g., 2.4.x kernel with USB support). It uses cpio.bz2 data disks and has a full GRUB bootloader, memtest86, and more. Version 2.4.20 BETA3 was released June 16, 2003. That was still the latest release as of January 2006, when this entry was moved to the historical section.
484. Alindis
     http://alindis.sunsite.dk/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/alindis/
     http://alindis.sourceforge.net/
     A comprehensive guide to building a GNU/Linux distribution. Initial version 0.0.1 was released January 2, 2002. Version 0.1.0 was released July 18, 2002. Moved to historical section on October 21, 2004.
485. aLinux
     http://alinux.tv/
     aLinux Support Forum
     aLinux is a Professional Linux Operating System (700MB) designed for ease of use and sports a visually stunning Graphical User Interface, while maintaining a level of sophistication that experienced linux users can appreciate. Formerly known as Peanut Linux when v12.1 was released February 23, 2005. The name was changed to aLinux and version 12.2 was released March 24, 2005. Version 12.8 was released July 31, 2006. No new releases have been forthcoming, so this entry was moved to historical April 24, 2008.
486. ARM Linux
     http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
     ARM Linux is a port of the Linux Operating System to ARM processor based machines mainly by Russell King with contributions from others. Last update was March 2005.
487. BBLCD Toolkit
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/
     BBLCD is the acronym for Bernhard's Bootable Linux CD or Build your own Bootable Linux CD. BBLCD is a toolkit for building your own bootable Linux CD from your favorite (and possibly customized) distribution. It uses, more or less, an intelligent cp -a / /dev/cdrom to create a CDROM from an existing system. Version 0.7.7 was released April 9, 2003. Version 0.7.10, released October 1, 2003, seems to be the last release.
488. Bent Linux
     http://bent.latency.net/
     Bent Linux is a compact Linux distribution. It's inspired by Linux From Scratch, but uses Busybox, uClibc, and static linking. It's particularly suited to building dedicated servers, initrds for custom installers and rescue disks, and systems with a nice crisp mid-1980s mouthfeel to satisfy the mid-life crises of crusty curmudgeons. Bent works on older systems without much processing power or RAM. Entry added November 16, 2005. A git repository was opened early in 2008 but the contents are looking a bit dusty. Moved to historical August 25, 2008.
489. Black Cat Linux
     http://www.asplinux.ru/ru/blackcat/
     Black Cat was a Ukrainian distribution, based on Red Hat Linux and localized in Ukrainian and Russian. On March 19, 2001 the ASP Linux company, the developer of a Russian GNU/Linux distribution, and the Black Cat Linux development team announced a merger. Leonid Kanter the former leader of Black Cat Linux, heads the development team of this distribution and the ASP Linux company continues to support numerous Black Cat Linux users. ASPLinux 12 was released November 30, 2007.
490. Bluewall GNU/Linux
     http://bluewall.es.gnu.org/
     Bluewall is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and pkgsrc. It aims to create a complete pkgsrc-based GNU/Linux distribution. Bluewall 1.2 was released February 5, 2006. Bluewall 1.2.2 was released May 28, 2006. This entry was moved to the historical section August 25, 2008.
491. Bonzai Linux
     http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bonzai/
     Bonzai Linux has been built to offer a Debian based Desktop-OS that fits on a 180MB CD-R(W). The Distribution includes the current stable version of KDE and has been modified for easier installation. Version 1.5 was released May 20, 2003. Version 3.2 was released January 14, 2004.
492. CDLinux
     http://cdlinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdlinux/
     This CDLinux was a Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on a CD. Last update, March 30, 2001.
493. Cool Linux CD and Emergency Linux CD
     http://emergencycd2.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/emergencycd2/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/coollinuxcd/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/emergencycd2/
     Emergency CD is a console version liveCD for maintenance operations and rescuing your system after a crash. Cool Linux CD is a fully functional Linux desktop system with X graphical interface and many additional software packages. Cool Linux 2.3 was released September 17, 2003. Emergency CD 3.0 GE was released October 28, 2003.
494. Debian-Ham
     http://debianham.sunsite.dk/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian-ham/
     Debian-Ham is a floppy distribution specifically for contesting and logging. It is based on uClibc, busybox, and tlf. The current scheme uses a LILO boot floppy with a minix root floppy. Network support is included to connect to a DX cluster. The initial Freshmeat announcment was for version 0.3, released July 21, 2002. Version 0.5 was released April 24, 2003. This project is closed but old versions are still available.
495. DemoLinux
     http://www.demolinux.org/
     DemoLinux is a complete distribution on a bootable CDROM. Take Linux with you and run Linux anywhere. The website shows multi-lingual support for English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. DemoLinux 3.01p15 was released July 27, 2002.
496. DragonLinux
     http://dragonlinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/dragonlinux/
     DragonLinux is a complete Linux operating system distribution that has been customized to install on top of versions of Microsoft Windows or any version of DOS. DragonLinux v2r2pre was released November 26, 2001. After a long time in the Historical section, DragonLinux v3r1pre was released January 10, 2005. This release uses Slackware 10.0 packages. The source code for this project is available, but it is no longer developed. Moved back to the historical section January 31, 2008.
497. Dualix
     ftp://ftp.au.xemacs.org/pub/dualix/
     Dualix is a mini-distribution of Linux based on libc5, kernel 2.2.10. It is intended for use as a quick, portable, and configurable network client, not a rescue system. dualix-0.3pre2.tar.gz is still available for download.
498. ELKS
     http://elks.sourceforge.net/
     ELKS: The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subsystem. ELKS 0.1.0-pre4 was released March 4, 2002. ELKS-0.1.3-pre1 was released July 13, 2003.
499. Eurielec Linux
     http://www.eurielec.etsit.upm.es/linux/
     This was a project started by a a club of students at ETSIT (UPM), according to the Spanish web site.
500. EvilEntity Linux
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/undead
     Some say the Linux desktop is dead. Undead Linux seeks to counter that opinion by offering EvilEntity Linux, an easy to install, easy to use, i686 "Windows replacement" Linux desktop for the home computer. The initial release, EvilE DR-0.2.4d, was released April 26, 2002. EvilE DR-0.2.5 was released January 27, 2003. This project seems to be dead, but some code is available at SourceForge. Moved to historical April 24, 2008.
501. Fedora Legacy
     http://www.fedoralegacy.org/
     The Fedora Legacy Project is a community-supported open source project. It is not a supported project of Red Hat, Inc. although Red Hat, Inc. does provide some support services for it. The goal of Fedora Legacy is to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. Support for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9 will be phased out by the end of 2006. Support for Fedora Core 1 and 2 ended with the release of Fedora Core 6 Test 2 - just as Fedora Legacy began supporting Fedora Core 4. Fedora Legacy shut down at the end of 2006.
502. Fluxbuntu
     http://fluxbuntu.org/
     Wiki Fluxbuntu is a LPAE-standard compliant, Ubuntu-based distribution. It is lightweight, swift and efficient. These features support the Fluxbuntu Linux Project's Goal of running on a wide range of mobile devices and computers (low-end & high-end). The first test release is expected July 19, 2007, timed with the Gutsy Tribe 3 release. As of October 2, 2008 there do not appear to be any releases of current changes.
503. free-EOS
     http://free-eos.org/modules/news/
     Free-EOS is a French distribution with the aim of being incredibly easy to set up and get a set of services running. Version 1.1 was released June 14, 2003. Version 1.3-1a was released November 27, 2004. Version 2.0 was released June 25, 2006, activity seems to die out after that.
504. Freepia
     http://freepia.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/freepia/
     Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too. The main motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/MP3s/images etc. For this it uses freevo but in the future there may be support for others like mythtv or vdr. The last release appears to be 0.3.8-rc1 - moved to historical on October 29, 2008.
505. Fried Chicken
     http://linuxlab.dk/fcl/
     Fried Chicken Linux (FCL) was a Linux software repository designed for use by students and staff at the IT University of Copenhagen. FCL contains Fried Chicken Linux packages, integrated with Red Hat Linux. The Repository furthermore had mirrors of the Red Hat distributions and updates to these. Automatically updated Red Hat Linux distributions were provided. The last FCL version mirrored Red Hat 7.1 and the distribution is no longer available. The LinuxLab at the IT University of Copenhagen was a project initiated by a donation in 2000 by IBM.
506. FTOSX
     http://www.futuretg.com/FTOSX/
     A product of Future Technologies, the FTOSX Desktop is a RPM-based OS for IA-32 platforms. FTOSX offers more than 1,000 software packages including its own KDE-base desktop. FTOSX Desktop 2005 seems to be the last release. Moved to historical April 24, 2008.
507. Giotto
     http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/
     giotto is a floppy Linux, a bootable floppy disk that comes with the necessary parts of the Linux operation system. giotto boots from a floppy (it can be installed also on a hard disk) and runs completly out of the system's RAM. Generally no hard disks are required. Suceeded by ariane. giotto software is unmaintained but still available here.
508. GoodGoat Linux
     http://www.goodgoat.com/distro/
     GoodGoat Linux is based on Gentoo. It's a simple desktop that can run from a usb key, hard drive or cdrom disk. Version 1.1 of GoodGoat Linux was released January 17, 2005. Version 1.2 was released March 26, 2005. Version 1.4 was released January 14, 2006. This seems to be the final version as of April 24, 2008, when the entry was moved to historical.
509. Halloween Linux
     http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/work/outputexpert?id=3c63b810a711f&frame=no
     &flag=jfl&menupic=yes&mode=viewone&titnr=210015369&linkcol=005c21
     &stich=halloween+&katalog=255
     Halloween Linux is a German localized version of Red Hat 5 dating back to 2001.
510. Hedinux
     http://hedinux.org/
     Hedinux (formerly Octoz GNU/Linux) is inspired by Linux From Scratch. Version 0.1rc1 was released September 27, 2005. Hedinux GNOME live-cd 2006.1 alpha2 (with GNOME 2.14) was released March 27, 2006. As of October 15, 2008 there have been no new releases.
511. Hidden Linux
     http://www.hiddenlinux.com/
     Hidden Linux is an enterprise grade Linux distribution, created to address the needs of organizations wishing to develop a secure Internet presence. It is designed for experienced Linux administrators and can be used as a mail, Web, database, FTP, print, Samba (PDC), PPTP, IPSec gateway server and client, firewall, DHCP, cache/proxy, and time server. Hidden joins the list at version 1.2, released July 2, 2004. That seems to have the last release as well. Moved to historical on October 15, 2008.
512. Independence
     http://independence.seul.org/
     Independence is a free distribution designed by users for the users and particularly those who are left out by present distributions. Seems to died out around the end of 2001.
513. Jailbait
     http://jailbait.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/jailbait/
     JAILBAIT's Another Interesting Linux But Also Intimidating Too:
     A fully-functional Linux distribution that fits into 16 MB. Many modern net-appliance-type products such as the Netpliance iOpener have an internal SanDisk device that is 16 MB in size. Version 6, released June 24, 2000, remains the most current release.
514. K Linux
     http://www.daif.net/klinux/english.html
     K Linux was a modified version of Slackware Linux 9.1 with the Zipslack kernel. It can be installed on a FAT 32 file system with any version of Windows (9x, NT, 2000, XP). It comes on one CD-ROM and requires at least 2.5 GB of free space on the hard drive. The drive does not need to be partitioned. The system will be accessible from Windows, appearing to be another folder, or you can run Linux by booting from a floppy. Localized in Arabic. Version 2.0 has been the current version since 2004. Moved to the historical section January 31, 2008.
515. KRUD
     http://www.tummy.com/krud/
     tummy.com provides KRUD (Kevin's Red Hat Uber Distribution), based on a complete Red Hat or Fedora Linux install with all of the errata and updates included, plus extra packages added in by Kevin of tummy.com. Monthly updates were available by subscription. The Fedora Core 1 version became available in February 2004. Fedora Core 3 was the last supported version. There was also a server-tuned release of KRUD called KRUD Server. KRUD was discontinued at the beginning of 2006.
516. Leetnux
     http://leetnux.sourceforge.net/index_old.html
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9567&release_id=9864
     Leetnux is a Linux distribution specifically designed for Linux users who want maximum configuratibility. Therefore, the installation is quite hard, absolutely nothing is done "automagically" as in modern Linux distributions, but the user has total control over the installation. The idea behind Leetnux comes from Linux From Scratch, but a Leetnux system is not as "pure" as an LFS system, because a minimal pre-compiled system must be installed. Version 0.1, released August 15, 2000, is still available from SourceForge.
517. Lineox
     http://www.lineox.net/
     Lineox Enterprise Linux is built from modified Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources. The Finnish company Lineox offered customers an enterprise level Linux operating system without bundled support options. The Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux made updates and errata available to customers. Lineox Enterprise Linux was first released January 29, 2004. Lineox announced it's end of life on January 31, 2008. Lineox Enterprise Linux 2.1 support ended April 29, 2008. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3 will be supported until March 18, 2009 and Lineox Enterprise Linux 4 will be supported until August 12, 2009.
518. Linux4Geeks
     http://www.linux4geeks.de/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux4geeks/
     Linux4Geeks is a LFS-based small distro which works around several problems and issues mainstream Linux distributions have. It offers different versions compiled for each architecture and has all the packages required for a slim installation including a firewall and network administration tools, amongst others. Version 0.01 was released June 11, 2003. Version 0.10, released October 15, 2005, appears to be last release.
519. Linuxin GNU/Linux
     http://linuxin.paislinux.net/
     Spanish Linuxin GNU/Linux was based on Debian Woody, with many ease-of-use type of enhancements, such as automated graphical installation, hardware autodetection and configuration -- all geared towards users with little Linux experience. Version 1.0 was released August 6, 2002.
520. LoopLinux
     http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/
     This is a Slackware based distribution of the Linux operating system that can be installed and run from a DOS system, i.e. MSDOS, PCDOS, DRDOS, and Win9X in DOS mode. With the loop or UMSDOS version of the Linux system there's no need to repartition. The Linux system will just be a file or directory on your current DOS/Win9X system, and act like it was on it's own partition. LoopLinux 3.0 was released June 4, 2003. Some individual packages were released as recently as March 2006, but overall development seems to have ceased. Moved to historical section January 31, 2008.
521. MCC Interim Linux
     ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/MCC/
     MCC Interim Linux was started by the Manchester Computing Centre in February of 1992, after they made Linux availible on their FTP site in November of 1991. The distribution was one of the first to use a combined boot/root disk. Several distributions were based off of MCC Interim Linux, including TAMU, MJ, and SLS (which later morphed into Slackware Linux, a distribution that's still alive today).
522. MkLinux
     http://www.mklinux.org/
     MkLinux is an open source operating system which consists of an implementation of the Linux operating system hosted on the Mach microkernel. It is estimated that there are somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 MkLinux users. A significant number of the installed MkLinux systems are being used in mission-critical applications. Pre-R2 was released August 5, 2002.
523. Mulimidix
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/mulimidix/
     Mulimidix is a mini Linux distribution for building a PC-based set-top box and multimedia player system with digital TV, MP3, DivX, etc. support, using VDR, Freevo and other tools. It is currently optimized for i686. Initial version 0.1 was released April 4, 2003. Version 0.7 was released June 29, 2004. Entry moved to historical March 28, 2007.
524. muLinux
     http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/
     muLinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution, suitable for old computers. X11, GCC, VNC, SSH, Samba, Netscape etc. are supported on additional addon floppies. It can be installed from DOS/Win9x or Linux, without repartitioning. Release 14r0 is a very stable, final release and muLinux itself is not currently under active development.
525. MURIX Linux
     http://murix.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/murix/
     MURIX is a distribution based on LinuxFromScratch for building bootable CD-ROMs. Since you build it from source, MURIX should function on almost any hardware. Version 20020205, the initial release, became available on February 24, 2002. Version 1.1 was released November 24, 2002. Version 2004.2 was released December 25, 2004. Murix 2.6.17.6 was released July 24, 2006. Moved to historical October 16, 2008.
526. Netstation Linux
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/netstation/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/netstation/
     NetStation is a Linux distribution for diskless thin client terminals using standard x86 hardware. It can boot from network using Etherboot and connect to an application server using VNC, RDP, X11 or SSH. The initial release, NetStation 0.1 (alpha), is dated August 28, 2001. Development version 0.8.2 was released June 6, 2002.
527. NoMad Linux
     http://www.nomadlinux.com/
     The web site says NoMad Linux 2.0 is on the way. It has said that for a long time, though. NoMad first came about in spring of 1997. It is based on the encap package managing system. NoMad's main purpose was to keep it's creators happy and give them something to do in their free time. No doubt it suceeded at that, at least for a while. Nomad was moved to the historical section March 2006.
528. Nuclinux
     http://tuma.stc.cx/nuclinux.php?lang=en
     Nuclinux is a single floppy Linux distribution. One 3.5 in. floppy contains enough of a system to connect to the Internet from a networked machine (e.g. school lab, Internet cafe, etc.) It's also available as a DOS/Windows install. Version 0.9.4 was released December 16, 2000. Nuclinux is no longer actively developed.
529. Oralux
     http://oralux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/oralux/
     Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface. Initial version 0.03 was released July 3, 2003. Version 0.7-alpha was released May 8, 2006. Development has stopped, but the website, its documents and downloads are still available as of August 16, 2007.
530. ParallelKnoppix
     http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix/
     ParallelKnoppix is a remaster of Knoppix that allows a cluster of machines for parallel processing using the LAM-MPI and/or MPICH implementations of MPI, as well as PVM. You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes, if the machines have PXE network cards. Clusters from 2 to 200 machines are supported. The tutorial explains in detail how to set it up. A security enhanced version was released December 2, 2005. ParallelKnoppix 2.6 was released May 4, 2007. PK 2.8 for 64 bit systems was released November 21, 2007. This was the final release for ParallelKnoppix. See PelicanHPC for the continuation of this work.
531. PeeWeeLinux
     http://peeweelinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/peeweelinux/
     PeeWeeLinux is a development effort to provide an environment that makes the configuration and installation of a Linux operating system on an embedded platform as easy and painless as possible. PeeWeeLinux v0.61.1 was released February 27, 2002. Moved to historical section March 12, 2004.
532. Perl/Linux
     http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/perllinux
     Just for fun check out Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in perl. The current (only) version is 0.9.5, released under Artistic License.
533. Qplus
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/qplus/
     Qplus is highly configurable embedded Linux system. Based on CML2, you can configure kernel, applications, libraries, and target specific information at once through GUI interface. it can be used any embedded systems such as router, settop box and PDA. Version 1.0 was released December 16, 2002. Moved to historical section February 1, 2006.
534. Repairlix
     http://repairlix.sourceforge.net/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/repairlix/
     Repairlix is a networked Linux distribution/bootable system intended to fit in 12MB of media - so small that an image can be burned onto a business-card-sized shaped CDROM, suitable for your wallet. It has a suite of utilities for doing system recovery. The latest version of Repairlix is called Nail, dated September 24, 2000 (as of September 2007).
535. Rock Linux
     http://www.rocklinux.org/
     ROCK Linux is a source-based Linux distribution and a Distribution Build Kit. You can configure your personal build of ROCK Linux to get the distribution you want. ROCK Linux supports i686, Generic Sparc, Server PPC and Router ARM architectures. ISO images are available for Crystal ROCK, the general purpose distribution, and the ROCK Linux LiveCD. The ROCK Linux Live CD incorporates a full KDE desktop and other applications like mplayer and xine in the last release, dated October 16, 2005. ROCK 3 was released July 27, 2006. Since there hasn't been any activity in some time, this entry was moved to historical August 25, 2008.
536. Scrudgeware
     http://scrudgeware.org/
     Scrudgeware is no longer under development. As a GNU/Linux distribution, ScrudgeWare was designed with several goals in mind. First and foremost it was built with 100% Free Software, and without bloat.
537. ScummLinux
     https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummlinux/
     ScummLinux creates a bootable Linux CD which includes ScummVM and your favorites Scumm games, so you can play them anywhere. The initial version of ScummLinux is 0.1, released July 27, 2003. Version 0.3.1 was released August 13, 2003.
538. Sentry Firewall
     http://www.sentryfirewall.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/sentry_firewall_cd/
     Sentry Firewall CD-ROM is a Linux based bootable CD-ROM suitable for use as an inexpensive and easy to maintain Firewall or IDS (Intrusion Detection System) Node. The system is designed to be immediately configurable for a variety of different operating environments via a configuration file located on a floppy disk or a local hard drive. Version 1.2.0 was released March 27, 2002. Version 1.5.0-rc16 was released January 13, 2005. According to the website the project is stalled, posted March 18, 2006.
539. SnapGear Embedded Linux
     http://www.snapgear.org/
     SnapGear Embedded Linux is a 100% free distribution supporting several processors (with an emphasis, perhaps, on MMU-less processors - the principal developers of uClinux were among the original developers of SnapGear). SnapGear was acquired by CyberGuard in 2004. SnapGear appliances are available worldwide.
540. SNAPPIX
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/snap/
     SNAPPIX is a KNOPPIX-based live CD with many open source Java components integrated into one compact package. The initial release of SNAPPIX was v0.7 "FISL-Brazilzle" dated June 1, 2005. SNAPPIX 0.9.1 "OSCON" was released July 29, 2005. Problems were found and active development ceased shortly after the last release.
541. Sorcerer
     http://sorcerer.berlios.de/
     This distribution was created by the original Sorcerer GNU/Linux author, Kyle Sallee. Sources are downloaded directly from software authors' homepages and mirrors. Then, they are compiled with the architecture and optimizations that the system administrator specifies. Finally, it is installed, tracked, and archived for easy removal and upgrades. Sorcerer has both both command line and menu driven package mangement programs. A public beta, not backward compatible with previous releases of SGL, was made available April 14, 2002. This project is fairly private, with no mailing list. Parts of the website haven't been updated recently, but current packages are available for download as of February 2008.
542. Splack
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/splack
     Splack was a volunteer effort to maintain Slackware on Sparc. Splack v-y1test was released September 30, 2001. Moved to historical section October 13, 2003.
543. Sun Java Desktop System
     http://wwws.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/
     Sun Microsystems has a version of Linux targeted toward the enterprise desktop. The base is SuSE Linux, with Sun's version of the GNOME desktop, and some of Sun's proprietary software such as StarOffice and Java development tools. Once codenamed Project MadHatter (August 2003), the first JDS was released September 30, 2003. The Sun Java Desktop System, Release 2 became available May 4, 2004. No new versions expected, although release 3 of Sun Java Desktop System is shipping now as part of the Solaris 10 Operating System.
544. SuperRescue
     http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/superrescue/
     SuperRescue is a single very large bootable system-on-a-disk. It's based on the observation that the vast majority of systems allow you to do so much more than the minimal system. Therefore, it isn't for everything, but for most desktop systems, it provides a much nicer rescue environment than your average rescue floppy. This version uses transparent compression to fit about 1.4 GB of software onto a single CD in usable form. Version 2.1.2 was released November 9, 2002.
545. TimeSys Linux/RT
     http://www.timesys.com/products/
     TimeSys Linux provides a foundation for embedded systems with any kind of performance requirements. From non-real-time, to soft real-time, all the way to hard real-time, TimeSys Linux offers unsurpassed predictability, robustness, scalability, and is available on a variety of board/microprocessor configurations. TimeSys Linux 4.0 was released February 13, 2003. TimeSys released a 2.6 kernel-based embedded Linux distribution and development tools for PowerPC, March 11, 2004. In August of 2005 TimeSys announced LinuxLink, a subscription service designed to help people build and maintain their own distribution. The original TimeSys Linux has been discontinued.
546. TINY
     http://tiny.seul.org/
     The website is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. Tiny Linux is a small Linux distribution designed especially for old recycled computers.
547. Tomukas
     http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/tomukas/
     Tomukas was a small Linux mini-distribution, featuring busybox, tinylogin, mc, joe, ssh, X-window with fvwm1 and not much else. Not for beginners.
548. uClibcLinux
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/uclibclinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/uclibclinux/
     uClibcLinux is a Linux distribution based on uClibc. This source-based distribution has two main goals: - provide an easily extensible build-system - provide a repository of software compiling and running with uClibc. Initial version 0.4.5 was released June, 25, 2002. Moved to historical February 1, 2006.
549. Unifix
     http://www.unifix.de/
     Unifix is the original POSIX certified Linux distribution. Last updated December 25, 2001.
550. UnitedLinux
     http://www.unitedlinux.com/
     UnitedLinux was based largely on the SuSE Linux distribution and was the base system for distributions from UnitedLinux partners SuSE (Europe), Conectiva (South America), Turbolinux (Asia) and SCO Linux (North America).
551. Viralinux_II
     ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/clienux/interim/
     From the makers of cLIeNUX, ViraLinux_II is a LILO boot/root floppy image that can run without a hard drive and has over 200k free space on the floppy, ash, eforthl, H3sm and no libc.
552. Virtual Linux
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-linux/
     Virtual Linux is based on Mandrake 8.1, modified to run from CDROM. Modifications include a new startup script, automatic search and mount of CDROM drive, and cloop compression. The CD contains 1.7 GB of software. Version 1.1 was released May 4, 2002.
553. WinSlack
     http://greboguru.org/geek/winslack/
     WinSlack is a basic Linux install with KDE and Star Office. It requires no logon, and gives you a desktop environment similar to that other leading PC GUI, it also has supermount compiled into the kernel so that CD-ROM's and floppies are automatically mounted and unmounted. You can also format floppies from the desktop. Upon exiting the X session, the machine will shutdown. It is based primarily on Slackware 7.1 with some modifications.