The LWN.net Linux Distribution List

The next major release was on February 7, 2002. Additional information was added to each entry, and in the process links were fixed, entries moved to different categories and dead distributions were removed. Minor revisions have been made almost every week since then. A table of contents was added on May 9, 2002. Another round of link checking began May 2003 and is still in progress.

Someday this list will hopefully move to a searchable database, making it easier than ever to find what you are looking for. In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy this celebration of Linux diversity, with over 300 distributions; large and small, specialized and generalized, old and new.

Table of Contents

• Leading Distributions
• Also well-known
• Non-technical desktop
• Education
• General Purpose
• Country-specific
  • Brazil
  • China
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • New Zealand
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Related Projects
• Embedded Distributions
• Handhelds/PDAs
• Secured Distributions
• Special Purpose/Mini
• Floppy-based
• CD-based
• Zip disk-based
• Small Disk
• Wireless
• Hardware-specific
  • Alpha
  • ARM
  • PA-RISC
  • PowerPC
  • Sparc
  • Older Intel
• DOS/Windows install
• Diskless Terminal
• Historical (Non-active)

Leading Distributions

Leading distributions have been around for a while and are well-established. Usually a variety of products are available from low-end x86 versions to high-end versions for IBM mainframes and the latest 64-bit technology. Most come from companies that supply service and support contracts for their products. They also tend to support many languages.
1. Conectiva Linux
   http://www.conectiva.com/
   Based in Brazil, Conectiva is well-known in South America and has excellent Portuguese and Spanish support. Conectiva started out as a Red Hat based distribution, but quickly moved on. During the days of UnitedLinux Conectiva was the South American partner. Since the demise of UnitedLinux Conectiva has moved on again. Conectiva Linux 10 released July 5, 2004.

2. Debian GNU/Linux
   http://www.debian.org/
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian/
   The Debian Project is currently the largest volunteer based distribution provider. Debian is still supporting its old stable version 2.2 (potato). The current stable version is 3.0r3 (woody). Slightly less stable but more current branches are available as well. Debian supports many languages and hardware platforms.

3. Fedora
   http://fedora.redhat.com/
   Fedora Extras
   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 Core contains all the packages necessary to run a functional desktop or small server. Fedora Core 1 was released November 5, 2003. Fedora Core 2 was released May 18, 2004. Fedora Core 3 is due out November 8, 2004.

4. 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. As of July 2004 Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9 are supported.

5. 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 (7000 as of July 2004). Gentoo Linux 2004.2 was released August 2, 2004, supporting AMD64, HPPA, SPARC and X86.

6. Mandrakelinux
   http://www.mandrakelinux.com/
   MandrakeClub helps to support this distribution.
   MandrakeSoft makes this popular distribution. Originally based on Red Hat Linux, Mandrake Linux has grown into a unique distribution. Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) was released March 25, 2003. The second edition of the Move live CD, based on Mandrakelinux 10.0, was released October 6, 2004. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official was released October 27, 2004. The x86-64 edition of 10.1 Official was released November 10, 2004.

7. 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. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Beta 2 was released November 8, 2004.

8. 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 largely the product of 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. Slackware supports only x86 platforms. Slackware 10.0 was released June 23, 2004.

9. SuSE Linux
   http://www.suse.com/
   Unofficial SuSE FAQ: http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/
   Munich based SuSE Linux AG, was the European UnitedLinux partner, and supplied much of the code base for UnitedLinux. SuSE was acquired by US company Novell (finalized January 12, 2004), but the company is still based in Germany. Expect SUSE LINUX products to remain high quality and KDE-centric, with better integration of Ximian (also owned by Novell) products and strong backing by IBM for better integration of IBM hardware and middleware products for the enterprise. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 was released August 9, 2004. SUSE LINUX 9.1 became widely available by May 11, 2004. SUSE LINUX 9.2 Professional was released October 26, 2004.

10. 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.

    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.

11. ASPLinux
    http://www.asplinux.ru/en/
    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 9.2 (Greenhorn) was released February 25, 2004.

12. Rock Linux
    http://www.rocklinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/rocklinux/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/drock/
    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. Most of the ROCK Linux development is done on ix86 Hardware, but ROCK Linux also supports the Alpha AXP, PowerPC, Sparc32/Sparc64 and MIPS architectures. The dROCK (Desktop ROCK Linux) Target is a strip-down of the generic target for typical desktop installations. ROCK Linux 2.0.2 was released June 28, 2004. The dRock desktop target released version 2.0.1 on May 28, 2004.

13. 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.

    Non-technical desktop

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

14. Ares Desktop
    http://www.ares-desktop.com/
    Ares Desktop was born in late 2003 by merging two projects, Blue Linux and J.A.M.D., to create a larger pool of developers with common goals. The Ares Desktop is a free operating system for computers aimed at the educational, home and small business markets.

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. Ark Linux is based on Red Hat 7.3 / 8.0, with KDE. Initial Freshmeat version 1.0-0.alpha7.1 was released March 14, 2003. Ark Linux 1.0 Alpha 12.1 was released June 23, 2004.

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.

17. 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.

18. Cobind Desktop
    http://cobind.com/desktop.html
    The Cobind Desktop is based on Fedora Core Linux, stripped into a lightweight desktop environment designed with the average user in mind. Using XFce and Nautilus, it offers a Linux distribution that crosses into the mass technology market by giving typical users a fast and familiar desktop experience. Version 0.2 (beta) was released June 23, 2004.

19. DeLi Linux
    http://delilinux.berlios.de/
    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 0.6.1 was released September 9, 2004.

20. 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.

21. EvilEntity Linux
    http://evilentity.com/
    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. DR-0.3 is in progress.

22. Icepack Linux
    http://www.icepack-linux.com/
    Icepack Linux is a full-featured Linux distribution built from scratch. Version 1.0 released on February 13th 2001. It's optimized for the i586 family of processors and aims to be user-friendly in both installation and configuration. Icepack 2.75 is the current stable release. Development version 2.92 was released August 17, 2003.

23. LibraNet GNU/Linux
    http://www.libranet.com/
    A Debian based distribution for the desktop. Version 2.7 was released September 4, 2002. Version 2.8 was released May 1, 2003. Current version is 2.8.1, release date unknown.

24. Linspire
    http://www.linspire.com/
    LinspireEspanol
    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. Version 4.5 was released December 16, 2003. Linspire 4.5 supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

25. LinuxInstall.org Project
    http://linuxinstall.org/
    LinuxInstall.org 1.0 was based on Red Hat Linux 8.0 with Personal Desktop Packages. These days the project has become a Fedora Project Community Service Provider. The project supplies custom RPM package development, Fedora media and Fedora news. Entry updated October 21, 2004.

26. Lycoris Desktop/LX
    http://www.lycoris.com/
    Lycoris, formerly Redmond Linux, has a distribution targeted toward Windows users that are ready for a change. Desktop/LX Update 2 was released July 29, 2002. Lycoris released the Desktop/LX Tablet Edition on July 15, 2003. Desktop/LX 1.4 was announced on August 20, 2004, and became generally available by September 13, 2004.

27. Santa Fe Linux
    http://www.nmxs.com/company_santafe.html
    New Mexico Software created the Debian-based Santa Fe Desktop and put it on a live CD. The distribution can be easily installed to a hard drive if desired. SFL Community Test Release 1 (CTR1) was made available August 3, 2004. CTR3 was released September 28, 2004.

28. 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. Vidalinux Desktop OS 1.0 was released September 29, 2004.

29. WinLinux
    http://www.winlinux.net/
    WinLinux 2001 was designed and built to be the easiest to use Linux system. Its installation and configuration tasks are performed directly from Windows using graphical tools. WinLinux 2003 is currently available.

30. 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 2.5 was released July 27, 2004.

    Education

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

31. 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.

32. 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 5.1 (based on LFS 5.1.1) was released June 5, 2004.

33. 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.

34. CERN Linux
    http://cern.ch/linux
    CERN Linux is based on Red Hat Linux, with modifications to the kernel (to better support their hardware) and with additional software for High Energy Physics (HEP). It is used mostly at CERN and a few of the smaller HEP institutes worldwide, running on farm machines, servers, desktops and embedded PCs. Added to list June 17, 2003. CERN 7.3.3 was released July 7, 2003. A release candidate of Scientific Linux CERN 3 (SLC3) v3.0.3, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, was released October 19, 2004.

35. College Linux
    http://linux.college.ch/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/collegelinux/
    CollegeLinux is made available by Robert Kennedy College, Del.AЋйmont, Suisse to both RKC and non RKC students. CollegeLinux is a new, stand-alone operating system based on Slackware. The aim of this experimental Linux distribution is to provide to students with an operating system which is easy to install and use and which provides an alternative to the traditional commercial operating systems. Entry added March 4, 2003. College Linux 2.3 (Darth Vader) was released May 9, 2003. Version 2.5 (ObiWan) was released December 20, 2003.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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. Version 1.4.1 was released November 8, 2003.

39. 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.

40. 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. Stable version 5.1.1 was released June 6, 2004.

41. 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 v5.0 RC2 was released July 7, 2004. A beta version of Lormalinux 5 for AMD Athlon 64 was released July 12, 2004. Lormalinux Server Edition 1.0beta 1 - LTSP Server was released September 27, 2004. Lormalinux 5 Live CD was released November 2, 2004.

42. OpenLab GNU/Linux
    http://direqlearn.org/olce/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/openlab/
    OpenLab is a product of South Africa's DireqLearn, an organization that seeks to make a significant positive impact on education in Africa. It is a thin client-enabled Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, and is designed with an educational focus. It features unique desktop themes for maximum user friendliness without sacrificing compatibility, integrated thin client support that requires no complex setup, the 2.6 series kernel for maximum desktop performance, many DireqLearn enhancements, a unique, simple, and powerful system administration interface, KDE, and Dropline GNOME. OpenLab joins the list at version 3.0.5, released May 11, 2004. OpenLab 3.2 was released November 2004.

43. Skolelinux
    http://www.skolelinux.no/
    English: http://developer.skolelinux.no/projectinfo.html.en
    Skolelinux is a Norwegian distribution for educational use, as a server with thin clients. This Debain-based distribution is now the basis for the custom Debian project, Debian-EDU. Skolelinux pr42 was released November 10, 2003. Skolelinux 1.0 (Venus) was released June 21, 2004. The first update for Venus was released November 1, 2004.

44. 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 v8), 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.

    General Purpose

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

45. 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. Designed to be a universal distribution, suitable for server organization, for user workstations and for software development, ALT Linux has diverged from its roots and split into several projects, all with the same code base. For example, there's Castle, a secured, RSBAC-enabled, server distribution; and ALT Linux Junior, a single-disk distribution for home computers, designed especially for beginners, easy to install and use. The unstable Sisyphus branch 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 Junior 2.3 beta was released September 26, 2003. ALT Linux Compact 2.3 was released March 26, 2004.

46. Arch Linux
    http://www.archlinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/archlinux/
    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 0.7-beta2 (Wombat) was released October 31, 2004.

47. Aurox Linux
    http://www.aurox.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/aurox/
    Aurox Linux is an international distribution, hailing from Poland. It is available in several european countries, in different language versions, including Polish, Czech, German, French and Spanish. Aurox is based on Red Hat, with Aurox 9.0 the most recent stable offering. Added to list June 11, 2003. Aurox 10.0 (Amber) was released October 6, 2004. Aurox Live 1.4.2 was released March 29, 2004.

48. BearOps
    http://www.bearops.com/
    BearOps Linux, formerly MaxOS, provides the BearOps Linux Server and the BearOps Linux Desktop.

49. 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. BLAG9000 was the current version when the entry was added, November 11, 2003. Version 19999.00071 was released August 5, 2004.

50. BSLinux
    http://www.bluesock.net/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/bslinux/
    BSLinux, from Blue Sock Linux Solutions, is a GNU/Debian-based distribution with a very simple installation process based on KDE. It supports many partition types, including XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, EXT2, and EXT3. It uses XML and provides many new viewpoints to the way things can be done. Beta 1 was released June 27, 2003.

51. Buffalo Linux
    http://buffalolinux.dyndns.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/buffalo/
    Buffalo Linux is a derivative distribution based on Vector/Slackware. It is targeted for the small business workstation market. This is the free base version. Enhanced versions with pre-installed database access (DB2 and Oracle) and Microsoft product execution using Codeweavers products are available. Buffalo joins the list at version 1.0.3, released December 7, 2003. Version 1.5.0 was released November 1, 2004.

52. cAos
    http://caosity.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/caos/
    http://www.centos.org/ cAos is a Linux distribution created by the community, for the community. The purpose is to provide a stable Linux solution for organizations and individuals that do not need or want to purchase their Linux solution. The kernel and almost every application that makes up a Linux distribution are free and supported by their respective development groups. cAos is simply a project that allows them to integrate together into a usable product. This distribution is focused on becoming an enterprise level community produced solution. The project was announced November 8, 2003. The first alpha version was released December 1, 2003. CentOS-3 build5-rc1 was released February 2, 2004. cAos-1.0 was released February 18, 2004. CentOS 3.3 was released September 20, 2004 with support for i386 and X86_64..

53. 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.

54. 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 2.0 was released May 20, 2004. CRUX 2.0 PPC was released September 28, 2004.

55. 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.

56. FTOSX
    http://www.futuretg.com/FTOSX/
    FTOSX Desktop 2003, and other versions like WebServer and Professional for Intel (IA-32) as well other platforms are a new generation Operating System, because we made all the necessary design, in back-end and front-end to offers something new and innovative.

57. FullPliant
    http://fullpliant.org/
    http://pliant.cx/
    Uses Pliant as an whole operating system on top of a Linux kernel.

58. H3Knix
    http://h3knix.open-element.net/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/h3knix/
    H3Knix is a small, source-based, desktop Linux distribution. It provides a custom package management system based on "capsules", which allows the user to select the functionality they require (e.g., "Dialup Internet access"), and it will automatically retrieve all required applications, including relevant dependencies. H3Knix joins the list at version 1.2 released July 14, 2004. Version 1.6 was released October 13, 2004.

59. Haydar Linux
    http://www.haydarlinux.com/
    http://www.haydarlinux.com/news/
    Haydar Net provides Haydar Linux, a distribution with Arabic support. The first beta release of Haydar was announced May 4, 2002. Version 1.0 was announced July 4, 2003.

60. Hidden Linux
    http://www.hiddenlinux.com/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/hidden/
    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.

61. IDMS Linux
    http://idms.lbsd.net/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/idms-linux/
    IDMS Linux is NOT a home user distribution. It is intended solely as the base for high end server software. No GUI's, No X, No fancy stuff. The initial Freshmeat announcement was for version 2.0.25, dated June 22, 2002. Version 2.2.8 was released January 5, 2003.

62. 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 are available by subscription. Current support schedule: v7.3 is supported through July 2004 and v9 is supported through August 2004. The Fedora Core 1 version became available in February 2004. There is also a server-tuned release of KRUD called KRUD Server.

63. LBA-Linux
    http://www.sotlinux.org/en/
    SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. joined with FinnDesign and TurrЋй in late 2003 to form the Linux Business Alliance and the distribution formerly known as SOT Linux became LBA-Linux with the next release. LBA-Linux aims to be an easy-to-use, secure distribution. SOT Linux 2002 was released April 24, 2002. SOT Linux 2003 was released June 4, 2003. The first beta of LBA-Linux was released March 15, 2004. LBA-Linux R1 was released April 16, 2004. LBA-Linux R2 Beta was released May 19, 2004.

64. LGIS GNU/Linux
    http://www.lgis.com.mx/linux.php
    LG Internet Solutions in Mexico produces LGIS GNU/Linux 9. Mixing Red Hat Linux 9 and Ximian Desktop 2, this distribution was introduced by GnomeDesktop on July 1, 2004.

65. Lineox
    http://www.lineox.com/
    Lineox Enterprise Linux is built from modified Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 sources. The Finnish company Lineox offers customers an enterprise level Linux operating system without bundled support options. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 was released January 29, 2004. The Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux makes updates and errata available to customers. Lineox Enterprise Linux Desktop v3.0 was released May 10, 2004. Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.032, released August 20, 2004, adds support for x86_64. An Advanced Server 2.1 edition was released August 30, 2004.

66. 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.

67. Linux Netwosix
    http://www.netwosix.org/
    Linux Netwosix aims to be a small, powerful and highly configurable Linux distribution for servers and network security related jobs. Version 1.0, with Linux Kernel 2.6.1, GCC 3.3.2 and GLIBC 2.3.2, was released January 31, 2004. Version 1.1 (Solstizio) was released March 21, 2004.

68. LRs-Linux
    http://www.lrs-linux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/lrs-linux/
    LRs-Linux is based upon Linux From Scratch (LFS). In contrast to LFS and most common distros, LRs Linux has the ability to compile directly from the CD. This means that binaries can be natively compiled for the target host during the install, enhancing the performance of the resultant system. The install process is largely automated. LRs-Linux was initially released at version 0.2.5 on February 27, 2002. Version 0.3.1-rc2 was released February 12, 2003. Moved to historical section September 10, 2003. Resurrected November 30, 2003 with LRs GNU/Linux ReleaseCandidate "Creme-13". Version 2003-12-01 was released December 1, 2003. The "Creme-13" final was released December 23, 2003.

69. 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. A development version of Lunar, theedge, was made available May 23, 2002. theedge achieved enough stability to become the first Lunar, announced July 15, 2002. Lunar-1.4.0 (General P. Fault) ISO was released March 9, 2004.

70. 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.

71. 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 2004-01-26 was released January 26, 2004.

72. 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.

73. NoMad Linux
    http://www.nomadlinux.com/
    The web site says NoMad Linux 2.0 is on the way. There are no dates, though, so this could be historical. NoMad is based on the encap package managing system for ease of installation and upgrades. NoMad's main purpose is to keep it's creators happy and give them something to do in their free time. More and more, they see NoMad as a distribution for the scientists/engineers/geeks that know what they want and don't want anything else.

74. Octoz GNU/Linux
    http://octoz.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/octoz/
    The Octoz GNU/Linux Project aims to create a simple and reliable Linux distribution that is accessible to beginners, with a focus on multi-media, office automation, customer networks and Internet. The initial version (0.1 - released August 28, 2004) uses a 2.6.7 Linux kernel, and is installed using the Live-Octoz CD.

75. OEone HomeBase
    http://www.axentra.com/
    Axentra provides Internet appliances for servers and desktops using the OEone Linux-based operating system.

76. Office optimized Linux (OoL)
    http://www.sol-linux.com/Content/OoL
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/ool/
    Office optimized Linux (OoL) is a distribution that has been customized and optimized for office use. It features the KDE desktop with lots of programs for managing documents, appointments, email, and media. The current version includes Open Office 1.1.0, which offers the ability to dirctly export files into PDF and Flash. OoL is is brought to you by the folks at SoL (Server Optimized Linux). OoL joins the list at version 17.00o, released October 13, 2003.

77. Onebase Linux
    http://www.ibiblio.org/onebase/
    Onebase Linux (OL) is an independent meta source distribution created in July 2003. It is powerful, transparent and free. The installation, packages and configuration are managed by an in-house integrating technique called Onebase Linux Management (OLM). Even though Onebase Linux is a source distribution, it is designed to be easy for novice Linux users and even for fresh Windows converts. The first public release of Onebase Linux, version 1.0 beta, was announced July 24, 2003. Onebase Linux 2004-r4 was released July 7, 2004. The first release of OnebaseGo (v1.1) was announced March 10, 2004. OnebaseGo-2.0-KDE3.3b2 was released August 4, 2004.

78. OpenSLS
    http://opensls.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/opensls/
    OpenSLS (or Open Secure Linux Server) is currently a concept work-in-progress. It's aim is to be a secure Linux OS based on Mandrake Linux. Unlike Corporate Server, which is a fine server operating system, OpenSLS will be much more scaled down with a lot of additional security features. OpenSLS 1.0-CURRENT alpha1, released June 3, 2004, is based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 with a lot of cleanup and enhancements.

79. Progeny Componentized Linux
    http://platform.progeny.com/componentized-linux/
    Progeny Componentized Linux is built bottom-up, as a set of interchangeable parts that closely track their counterpart "upstream" open-source projects. By being constructed in this fashion, the componentized Linux is easier to customize and modify than traditional Linux distributions. The Debian-based core component is Progeny Componentized Linux Core 1.3, an LSB 1.3-certified Linux runtime, released January 26, 2004. Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition (DE) Alpha 1 was released April 13, 2004. Version 2.0 DE beta2 was released September 14, 2004.

80. ROOT Linux
    http://www.rootlinux.org/
    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 beta 1 was released September 15, 2003.

81. Rubyx
    http://www.rubyx.org/
    Rubyx is an operating system, created and maintained by rubyx, a script written in the excellent ruby language. The script grew out of the need to create highly customised linux installations for a massive multi-player online game, but has become a viable operating system for general use. It is working and usable (it's running rubyx.org) and package support grows daily. Rubyx is not for beginners, but it is designed to be simple and reliable. If you have a grasp of partitioning and formatting disks and some understanding of boot loaders, you can install rubyx. The current stable version was 47 and development version 50 as of March 31, 2004.

82. Scrudgeware
    http://scrudgeware.org/
    Scrudgeware is currently under development. As a GNU/Linux distribution, ScrudgeWare is being designed with several goals in mind. First and foremost is to be built 100% from GPL (or other freely licensed) software. Second, NO BLOAT. Scrudgeware will try to build a simple ("bare bones") system on which the user can add any software they choose.

83. Server optimized Linux
    http://www.sol-linux.com/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/sol/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/sol-diag/
    SoL (Server optimized Linux) is a Linux distribution completely independent from other Linux distributions. It was built by antitachyon from the original source packages and is optimized for heavy-duty server work. It contains all common server applications, and features XML boot and script technology that makes it easy to configure and make the server work. SoL 13.37 was released April 22, 2002 (initial Freshmeat announcement). A diskless version, SoL-diag 1.1, was introduced March 3, 2003. A desktop version, SoL-Desktop 0.2, was released March 27, 2003. SoL 18.00 was released May 19, 2004.

84. Simply GNUstep
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplygnustep/
    Simply GNUstep is a Linux/GNU distribution aimed at providing an OpenStep feeling from bootup on. This is a stripped down distribution, providing ease of use. (Think OS X for x86). InterimDeveloperRelease-1 came out on August 14, 2002. Version 1 was released September 9, 2002.

85. SME Server
    http://www.e-smith.org/
    Once known as e-smith, this server and gateway distribution is now owned by Mitel Networks, and called SME Server. Mitel released version 5.5 of the SME Server on July 3, 2002. The SME Server version 5.6 developer release came out January 15, 2003. SME Server 6.0 Beta 3 developer release came out August 1, 2003.

86. Snootix
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/snootix/
    Snootix is a source-based distribution that installs Linux From Scratch and allows users to add BLFS and Snootix-specific packages of their choice. It features a number of game console emulators and more up-to-date packages than those featured in the BFLS book. The initial version, 0.1, was released October 5, 2003. Version 0.5-pre1 was released November 24, 2003.

87. Sorcerer
    http://sorcerer.wox.org/
    http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/sorcerer/
    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.

88. 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 0.9.3 for x86 and PPC became available October 29, 2004.

89. Specifix Linux
    http://www.specifix.com/
    Specifix has built a Linux distribution around the Conary system to showcase the abilities Conary provides and to provide a starting point for customization. This disitribution is still immature, but anyone interested in Conary and flexible Open Source solutions is encouraged to give it a try. Specifix Linux 0.13 (ALPHA) was released October 26, 2004.

90. 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 with a release date of August 2, 2004. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-3.0.1 (Maccaabee), announced September 6, 2004, includes Global File System (GFS) support and cluster capabilities. The StartCom Developer Edition DL-3.0.0 (Pharaoh) incorporates the best of Enterprise Linux, with the addition of the Eclipse IDE, also announced September 6, 2004.

91. Tao Linux
    http://taolinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/taolinux/
    Tao Linux (pronounced 'dow' Linux) is one of several projects to build a free Linux distrubution from the sources used in the Red Hat Enterprise product line. Release One - Final is dated December 19, 2003. Tao Linux 1.0 Update 2 was released June 2, 2004. Tao Linux 3.0 Update 3 was released November 2, 2004.

92. tinysofa
    http://www.tinysofa.org/
    tinysofa enterprise server
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinysofa/
    tinysofa classic server
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/tsclassic/
    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 (Odin) was released August 9, 2004. tinysofa classic server 1.1 (Rio) was released August 9, 2004.

93. Ubuntu Linux
    http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/ubuntu/
    "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Humanity To Others". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world, providing a system which is freely available. Both community and professional support is available. Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The initial Ubuntu release (4.10 Preview released September 15, 2004) supports Intel x86 (IBM-compatible PC), AMD64 (Hammer) and PowerPC (Apple iBook and Powerbook, G4 and G5) architectures. Version 4.10 "The Warty Warthog Release" was released October 20, 2004.

94. uOS
    http://u-os.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/uos/
    uOS is a complete source based Operating System that can be configured and built in a flexible way. uOS was first used in November 2002. It is very new and there are lots of kinks to work out. Although the goal is to make uOS usable by everyeone it currently requires Unix expertise to install and to run. uOS is based on GCC 3.2 / GLIBC 2.3 / WOLK Linux Kernel / X 4.2.1. It supports the newest drivers as well as the newest compilers. Core components are available under the 4F Licensing system (compliant to DFSG and OSI guidelines for Free Software). Initial version 0.81 was released November 6, 2002.

95. UserLinux
    http://userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
    UserLinux is a Debian Customized distribution for the enterprise. It is (or will be) available in server, desktop and soho versions. A beta version of a Morphix-based LiveCD of the desktop was released September 17, 2004.

96. 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.

97. White Box Linux
    http://whiteboxlinux.org/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/wbel/
    Online Forum
    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 3.0RC2 was released December 3, 2003. Version 3.0 was released December 15, 2003. Version 3.0 Respin 1 was released June 16, 2004.

98. YES Linux
    http://youresale.com/
    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 neeeded 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 2.0.11 was released September 20, 2004.

    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.

    Brazil

99. Console Linux
    http://www.console.com.br/centro.htm
    A general purpose distribution in Portuguese.

100. Kurumin Linux
     http://www.kurumin.org/
     Kurumin is based on Knoppix, but stripped down to fit on a mini CD. It supports installation on hard disk, and comes with plenty of documentation written in Portuguese. Entry added February 25, 2004, at version 2.20. Stable version 3.31 was released November 10, 2004. Development version 4.0 Alpha 2 was released November 10, 2004.

101. SACIX
     http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br/interna.php?id=1612
     SACIX is a Debian-based dirstribution for S.bЋгo Paulo's public computerlabs, the telecentros. This entry was added December 16, 2003.

     China

102. Chinese 2000 Linux
     http://chinese2000.sniic.com/index.php
     Chinese 2000 Linux comes from Hong Kong.

103. COSIX
     http://linux.cosix.com.cn/
     Distribution and website are in Chinese.

104. 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 Server v0.3beta2 was released October 19, 2004.

105. Red Flag
     http://www.redflag-linux.com/
     Red Flag also claims to be the leading Linux OS provider in China. Redflag Linux Desktop 3.2 beta was released August 12, 2002. Version 4.0 was released July 14, 2003. Version 4.1, based on Asianux 1.0, was released November 6, 2004.

106. ThizLinux
     http://www.thizlinux.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/thizdesktop/
     ThizLinux Labratory Ltd., home of the ThizLinux distribution, is based in Hong Kong. Products include Thiz Linux Desktop 6.0, Thiz Office 3.0 (an Open Office clone localized for Hong Kong users), and Thiz Server 6.0. Entry added August 20, 2002. When checked November 16, 2003 found that 7.0 was the current version for Thiz Linux Desktop, Thiz Server and Thiz Firewall. Thiz Office was at verion 4.0.

107. Tom Linux
     http://www.linuxaid.com.cn/
     Distribution and website are in Chinese.

108. XTeamLinux
     http://www.xteamlinux.com.cn/
     Distribution and website are in Chinese. Version 5.0 was released December 17, 2003.

     Egypt

109. 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

110. 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.

111. 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

112. 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 1.2 Beta 2 was released November 5, 2004.

     India

113. 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.

114. PunLinux
     http://www.geocities.com/punlinux/
     PunLinux is localized in the Punjabi dialect.

115. 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.

     Israel

116. 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.

     Italy

117. Bad Penguin Linux
     http://www.badpenguin.org/
     An Italian distribution, currently at version 0.99.5.

118. Madeinlinux
     http://www.madeinlinux.com/
     Looks like Italian. Distro at 4.0; site is also news and comments in Italian.

119. Vedova Linux
     http://www.vedova.org/
     Vedova Linux is currently at version 5.0, which appears to be Debian based. Entry updated March 2, 2004.

     Japan

120. Good-Day GNU/Linux HA Server
     http://gnulinux.good-day.net/
     Good-Day GNU/Linux HA Server is a Debian-based distribution, which uses only free software. It is developed by Good-Day Inc. (in Japan). They say that their distribution features high availability, and is for Web applications. The folks at Good-Day Inc. also make a "real-time backup utility for PostgreSQL" named "Usogres" ("Uso" is a Japanese word for "fake") available before the PostgreSQL team made replication available. Version 1.0 was released July 5, 2001. Version 3.0 was released January 9, 2003.

121. 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.

122. LASER5
     http://www.laser5.co.jp/
     Originally based on Red Hat Linux.

123. 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.

124. 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."

125. 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.

126. 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.

127. Omoikane GNU/Linux
     http://www.omoikane.co.jp/ogl.html
     This appears to be a Debian based distribution translated to Japanese.

128. Plamo Linux
     http://www.linet.gr.jp/~kojima/Plamo/
     This is a Slackware based distribution. Plamo 4.0 was released June 26, 2004.

129. 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. Version 2.6r4 was released February 11, 2004.

     Korea

130. WOWLinux
     http://www.wowlinux.com/
     The site appears current.

     New Zealand

131. 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.

     Poland

132. Pingwinek GNU/Linux
     http://fanthom.math.put.poznan.pl/~kaliber/pingwinek.php
     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 1.0rc2 was released April 23, 2004.

133. PLD
     http://www.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. The current version was 2.0 when this entry was last updated, August 10, 2004.

134. PLD Live CD
     http://livecd.pld-linux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/pldlivecd/
     PLD Live CD is a bootable CD that contains a live Linux distribution based on the PLD Linux distribution. It uses squashfs transparent compression to fit huge amount of packages on a single CD, including OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, XFCE, and many more. It also includes a set of scripts for detecting hardware such SCSI and ISA devices, monitors, sound cards, and graphic cards. It also supports 'profiles' that let you store your settings on a floppy. PLD Live CD joins the list at version 0.26, released November 10, 2003. Version 0.95 was released May 11, 2004.

135. PLD RescueCD
     http://rescuecd.pld.org.pl/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/pldrescuecd/
     PLD RescueCD is a bootable disk that contains a live Linux distribution based on PLD Linux with a 2.4.20 modular kernel. This version uses transparent compression to fit about 130 MB of software onto a single mini CD 50 MB in usable form. These images are small enough to fit on most business card-sized CD-ROMs (approx. 50MB), but can be burned onto any standard CD-R or CD-RW, as well. PLD RescueCD can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary secure linux-based workstation (using ssh, vpn connecting to remote host - other networking clients are also supported), install PLD Linux, and perform many other as yet unimagined tasks. Initial version 1.00 was released April 6, 2003. Version 1.93 was released July 20, 2004.

     Portugal

136. Caixa M.AЋбgica
     http://www.caixamagica.org/
     Caixa MЋбgica was originally based on Debian and SuSE. It has been rewritten and localized in Portuguese. Caixa MЋбgica was added to list July 8, 2002. LanЋзamento Linux Caixa MЋбgica Desktop 8.1 became available March 15, 2004.

     Russia

137. Black Cat Linux
     http://www.asplinux.ru/ru/blackcat/
     Black Cat is historical and superseded by ASPLinux.

     South Africa

138. Impi Linux
     http://www.impi.org.za/about.html
     Impi Linux is a gift from the South African open source software community to all South Africans. Impi Linux is pure open source software, based on Debian GNU/Linux, with components borrowed from Knoppix and Gnoppix. The desktop window manager is GNOME with Openoffice, Cubit Accounting Software and Mozilla.

     Spain

139. 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.

140. 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.

141. 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 RC2 was released May 31, 2004. A "live CD" edition of gnuLinEx 2004 was released October 30, 2004.

142. Linux ESware
     http://www.esware.com/
     Box sets are available, with a desktop edition and server edition. Support, classes and other services are available.

143. Linuxin GNU/Linux
     http://linuxin.paislinux.net/
     Linuxin GNU/Linux is 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.

     Taiwan

144. Linpus Linux
     http://www.linpus.com.tw/
     Linpus Professional Linux Services has created an embedded distribution, originally based on uClinux. Linpus Linux 9.2 seems to be the most recent release (as of March 2004).

     Thailand

145. 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.

146. Linux-SIS
     http://www.school.net.th/linux-sis/
     SIS stands for School Internet Server and this project started out as a way to connect schools in Thailand. Seems to be alive and well as of March 2004. Website in Thai.

147. 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. Previews of v5.6 ("AowThai") became available October 12, 2004.

148. 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 current version of Phayoune Desktop as of March 2004 is 0.5. The initial release of Phayoune Firewall was 0.3.3, dated December 25, 2002. Phayoune Firewall 0.3.6 was released May 21, 2003.

     Related Projects

149. 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.

150. Asianux
     http://www.asianux.com/
     Asianux is a joint effort by Japan's Miracle Linux and China's Red Flag Linux. Developed at Oracle's China Development Center in Beijing, the Asianux system is essentially an effort to develop and standardize a common Asian Linux kernel, libraries and packages. The Asianux partnership will also act as a certification body for hardware and software that is intended to run on the new Asian Linux kernel. New Red Flag and Miracle Linux distributions will be based on the Asianux core and will be bundled with localized features for each particular market. Asianux 1.0 was released March 31, 2004.

151. Chinese Linux Extension
     http://cle.linux.org.tw/
     The CLE website is mostly in Chinese. There seems to be Slackware 10.0 + CLE release dated August 7. 2004.

152. 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.

     Embedded Distributions

153. 2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux
     http://natld.berlios.de/
     http://www.angelfire.com/linux/floorzat/2diskXwin.htm
     http://www.thepub.nildram.co.uk/mirrors/2diskxwin/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.

154. 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.

155. Blue Cat Embedded Linux
     http://www.lynuxworks.com/products/bluecat/bluecat.php3
     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.

156. Compact Flash Linux Project
     http://web.tvnetwork.hu/~krichy/cfdev/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/cflinux/
     The Compact Flash Linux Project is making Linux run on a compact flash. It is developed on a 16MB CF, and still there is free space. It uses the Linux kernel. The main library is uClibc and the main commands are provided by Busybox. The initial release, v0.1.1, is dated January 8, 2004. Version 0.1.4-pre2 was released April 23, 2004.

157. 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 1.1 was released July 7, 2003.

158. 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.

159. 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.

160. 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.

161. Eshida Instant Embedded Linux
     http://eshida.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/eshida_linux/
     Eshida Instant Embedded Linux is an embedded Linux distribution for people who want to deploy embedded Linux technology immediately. Because the system runs directly on CD-ROM users spend zero effort to explor embedded systems. Version 1.0 was released April 18, 2003.

162. EtLinux
     http://www.prosa.it/etlinux/
     Prosa is an Italian free software company and the providers of EtLinux, an embedded GNU/Linux distribution that can run on a 386sx with 2Mb of ram.

163. 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.

164. 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:
     • Bering - like Dachstein, with Shorewall and 2.4.x kernel
     • Bering uClibc - similar to Bering, but uses uClibc
     • Dachstein - LRP based floppy disk firewall
     • Oxygen - firewall using Linux 2.2.20 with Openwall
     • PacketFilter - MultiPurpose Gateway
     • WISP-Dist - wireless gateway or an access point

165. 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 20040930 was released October 8, 2004.

166. Linux/Epia
     http://www.qrey.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxepia/
     Q Rey Linux/Epia is a Linux distribution for Epia M motherboards. It boots quickly (in less than 20 seconds), has a quick installation (less than 4 minutes), and allows quick configuration (less than 5 minutes). It's ready for classic precompiled software (OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, etc.). Any GTK application should compile directly. Version 1.0 was released March 26, 2003.

167. MIZI Linux
     http://www.mizi.com/en/prod/embed/mizilinux.htm
     MIZI Linux, a product of Korean company MIZI Research, Inc., is a embedded Linux operating system with a full set of applications. It is designed to be adopted various type of smart handhelds including graphical windows manager, SDK, and GUI applications such as web browser, E-Mail client, PIMS, Multimedia player, text editor, and other products developed by MIZI Research. This entry updated July 28, 2003.

168. 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. Entry updated March 12, 2004.

169. Qplus-P
     http://qplus.etri.re.kr/qplus-p/index.html
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/qplus/
     Qplus-P is ETRI's embedded Linux solution for internet appliances such as PDA, Digital TV setopbox and webpad. Target Builder is an embedded Linux development toolkit tightly coupled with ETRI Qplus-P . It provides many features for developers to build embedded Linux systems. These features include configuration, dependency checking, conflict resolution, project management and deployment support to the target system. Using Target Builder, developers can make fully functional operating systems easily and quickly. Version 1.0 was released December 16, 2002.

170. RedBlue Linux
     http://www.esfia.com/
     Esfia, Inc. is based in Taipei, Taiwan. Its RedBlue Linux is used in the company's BlueTooth enabled PDA.

171. RedIce-Linux
     http://www.redsonic.com/
     REDSonic's REDICE-Linux is a real-time Linux kernel, designed to support mission and time critical applications and provide quality of service to your system.

172. RTLinux
     http://www.fsmlabs.com/
     FSMLabs makes RTLinux, providing hard real-time solutions.

173. 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 are at SnapGear). SnapGear adds development expertise, toolchain, library and multi-architecture support to create a complete embedded development environment. The initial release is dated April 16, 2003.

174. 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.

175. Tunix
     http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/gleicon/code/tunix.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/tunix/
     Tunix is a small Linux setup, a toolkit to build your own small Linux image, and boot from a floppy or flash card. It's based on uClibc and busybox, using a pretty straightforward approach, based on KISS principle ( Keep it simple, stupid). Should be easy to understand and extend. Tunix joins the list at version 0.11, released February 28, 2004.

176. Tynux
     http://www.palmpalm.com/
     PalmPalm Technology is a Korean based company. They put Tynux into the Zaurus PDA and other appliances.

177. 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.

178. 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. A set of kernel patches for 2.4.x: v2.4.27-uc1 was released October 21, 2004. The 2.6.x patches: v2.6.9-uc0 was released October 29, 2004. Version 20040408 of the uClinux distribution was released April 16, 2004.

179. White Dwarf Linux
     http://www.emjembedded.com/linux/dimmpc.html
     http://www.whitedwarflinux.org/
     White Dwarf Linux is named for a White Dwarf Star. White Dwarf Stars are small but extremely dense stars. White Dwarf Linux is small enough to load in 16MB of Flash, but dense enough to contain the features that embedded applications demand. Version 1.2.0 was released July 28, 2002. Version 2.1.0 was released February 4, 2004.

     Handhelds/PDAs

180. 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 v0.7.2 was released November 13, 2003.

181. 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.

182. Linux DA OS
     http://www.linuxda.com/
     More info on LinuxDevices.com
     Empower Technologies makes this embedded OS for the Motorola Dragonball platform. Other platforms are "in the works".

183. OpenZaurus
     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 3.5.1 was released October 30, 2004.

184. PsiLinux
     http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/
     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), Series 7 and netBook machines.

185. TuxMobil
     http://tuxmobil.org/
     TuxMobil is a good site for all things Linux on mobil computers, including handhelds, laptops, phones, etc.

     Secured Distributions

186. 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.

187. 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. Alpha2 was released August 26, 2004.

188. Astaro Security Linux
     http://www.astaro.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/
     A firewall and VPN product based on the 2.4 Linux kernel. Available for free download but not completely open source. There are several branches. Stable 2x (i386): v 2.033 was released April 25, 2003. Sun Cobalt: v 2.033 April 28, 2003. Stable 3.x (i386): v 3.220 was released September 17, 2003. Stable 4.x (i386): v 4.024 was released November 2, 2004. Beta: v 4.770 was released March 25, 2004. Stable 5.0 was released March 18, 2004. Stable 5.x: 5.026 was released October 22, 2004.

189. 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.

190. Debian Hardened
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/debianhardened
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian-hardened/
     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.

191. 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. A new unnamed, unnumbered update was announced February 9, 2004.

192. Euronode
     http://euronode.org/
     The Euronode Project is based on Debian GNU/Linux Woody Release 2, offering the Euronode Minimal Woody, Euronode Simple Firewall, and the Euronode Advanced Firewall. The three Euronode versions are available as ISO files to download. You burn it and boot the live CDROM.
     Euronode Minimal Woody v0.2-rc1 was updated May, 1 2004.
     Euronode Simple Firewall v0.2-rc1 was updated May, 1 2004.
     Euronode Advanced Firewall v0.2-rc1 was updated May, 1 2004.

193. evelin
     http://evelin.psycode.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/evelin/
     Evelin is a Linux distribution based upon Mandrake. Its main purpose is to be kept secure and small, while providing the basic functionality that system administrators might need. It runs within its own chroot jail on an existing Linux system. The initial release is version 0.1, dated September 5, 2003.

194. FrazierWall Linux
     http://www.frazierwall.com/
     Originally developed as a customized firewall, early versions were based on the Linux Router Project and Coyote Linux 1.03. It has evolved into a unique router/firewall distribution. FrazierWall 3.4 was released on August 29, 2001. FrazierWall 3.5b was released on June 10, 2003.

195. Immunix
     http://www.immunix.org/
     Immunix, Inc. provides Immunix System 7 a secured Red Hat 7.0 distribution with StackGuard 2.0, FormatGuard 1.0, SubDomain 1.0 and a suite of application-level security tools. Immunix Secured Linux 7.3 was released November 2003, with 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.2.5 glibc, and 2.96 GCC. The company announced March 16, 2004 that this is the end of the line for the Immunix distribution. Support for Immunix 7.3 continues through March 2005.

196. IPCop Firewall
     http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome
     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 1.4.0 was released October 1, 2004.

197. NSA Security Enhanced Linux
     http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/selinux/
     The results of several previous research projects by the National Security Agency have been incorporated in a security-enhanced Linux system. This version of Linux has a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated into the major subsystems of the kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. Version 2003081307 was released August 14, 2003. Version 2004110116 was released November 3, 2004.

198. 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.

199. 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. Version 1.0 was released October 14, 2002. Owl 1.1 became freely available for download January 6, 2004. A new ISO image of Owl-current dated April 18, 2004 includes Linux 2.4.26-ow1 as the kernel and has updates to many userland packages that were updated since Owl 1.1. Owl kernel 2.4.26-ow2 was released June 19, 2004.

200. redWall
     http://redwall.sourceforge.net/
     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 0.5.4c was released July 7, 2004.

201. 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.

202. 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.

203. 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.

204. 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 2.0 (Cloud) was originally released July 2, 2003. TSL 2.2 (Sunchild) was released November 8, 2004.

     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.

205. 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.

206. Agnula
     http://www.agnula.org/
     The Agnula Project aims to develop two reference distributions for the GNU/Linux operating system completely based on Free Software and devoted to professional and consumer audio applications and multimedia development. One distribution will be Debian-based (DeMuDi) and the other will be Red Hat-based (ReHMuDi). AGNULA/ReHMuDi 2.0 was announced September 15, 2004. AGNULA/DeMuDi 1.1.1 was released April 23, 2004. AGNULA/DeMuDi 1.2.0 was released September 30, 2004.

207. 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 0.3.2 was released June 16, 2004.

208. 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 0.2.1 beta was released March 9, 2004.

209. 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.

210. Bluewall GNU/Linux
     http://www.bluewall.za/pages.net/home.php
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluewall/
     Bluewall is a GNU/Linux Distribution that allows you to install a system from a small set of preconfigured binaries packages based on Debian Linux. Bluewall doesn`t have any specific installation procedure so that you can install Linux in the way you want, using command line tools. Initial version 0.1 was released December 26, 2003. Version 1.1 was released February 11, 2004.

211. 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.

212. 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.

213. ChainSaw Linux
     http://www.chainsawlinux.com/
     ChainSaw Linux had video production, but as of May 4, 2002, the original Editing Edition is seen as "the ultimate goal for ChainSaw Linux."

214. Circle MUDLinux
     http://mujweb.cz/www/vladon/
     MUDLinux is minidistribution of Linux containing a running Circle MUDServer.

215. CLIC
     http://clic.mandrakesoft.com/index-en.html
     MandrakeSoft, Bull and INPG/INRIA, a Grenoble Research Group created CLIC, a Linux Clustering Distribution. The first CLIC version, released October 30, 2002, features rapid deployment, auto-configuration, MPICH, LAM and PVM support, a large number of mathematical libraries, and Netjuggler (a parallelized virtual reality 3D engine). CLIC 2 became available October 24, 2003.

216. ClusterKnoppix
     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.

217. 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 public release, version 0.1.2, is dated January 29, 2004. Version 0.1.4 was released July 23, 2004.

218. 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.

219. DietLinux
     http://lart.info/~bwachter/projects/dietlinux/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/dietlinux/
     DietLinux is a dietlibc-based Linux distribution. Glibc is fully avoided. Some of the most important server daemons (DHCP, DNS, etc.) are working. The initial version, 0.1, was released May 16, 2003. Version 0.1.2 was released September 30, 2003.

220. 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 0.4 was released October 28, 2004.

221. 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. Version 0.2-final was released October 14, 2004.

222. 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. Version 2.0 was released August 31, 2002.

223. Firenet mini linux
     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.

224. Freepia
     http://freepia.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/freepia/
     Freepia is small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. At present it only runs on the M-9000. The motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. It currently uses Freevo, but in the future there maybe support for other media players like mythtv or vdr. Version 0.3.6 was released on June 11, 2003. Version 0.3.7-pre4 was released August 30, 2003.

225. freevix
     http://www.freevix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/freevix/
     freevix is a tiny GNU/Linux distribution designed to provide a complete but small foot print environment for people wanting to build a media player system with Freevo. Initial version 0.2 was released March 12, 2003. Version 0.72 was released August 29, 2003.

226. 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. Version 0.98 was released August 11, 2004.

227. 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.

228. 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. Version 011 was released June 6, 2004.

229. HA Linux
     http://www.mcg.mot.com/cfm/templates/swdetail.cfm?
     PageID=682&PageTypeID=10&SoftwareID=6&ProductID=202
     Motorola Computer Group's Advanced High Availability Software for Linux. Runs on Motorola platforms, naturally.

230. 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.

231. 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).

232. 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 0.6 was released March 31, 2004.

233. Mindi Linux
     http://www.mondorescue.org/
     http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/index.html
     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.

234. Minislack
     http://shweps.free.fr/minislack.html
     Minislack is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Slackware-Linux. Minislack is focused on Internet applications and development tools. Minislack supports all Slackware packages. A new Minislack based on Slackware 10 was released August 23, 2004.

235. MoviX
     http://movix.sourceforge.net/
     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 0.9.0rc1 was released August 14, 2004.

236. MSC.Linux
     http://www.msclinux.com/
     http://www.mscsoftware.com/products/products_detail.cfm?PI=52
     MSC.Software makes this distribution, designed for high-performance, high-availability, cluster computing. Itanium 2-based MSC.Linux V2002 is available, as is MSC.Linux IA-64 2002 (July) for the HP zx1 chipset.

237. Mulimidix
     http://www.sysconfig.info/
     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, 2003.

238. 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. The third release of Overclockix 3.4 was available June 22, 2004.

239. Phlak
     http://www.phlak.org/
     Phlak (Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit) is a LiveCD Linux distribution with a focus on pen-testing, forensics, and network analysis. It includes two lightweight GUIs (XFCE4 and Fluxbox) and loads of tools, including crackers, sniffers, MITM utilities, and data recovery and duplication utilities. It includes a seven-step GUI to install to your hard drive if you desire. The initial version, 0.1, was released October 1, 2003. Version 0.2-1 was released January 11, 2004.

240. PHP Solutions Live
     http://www.phpsolmag.org/en/index.php?page=phpsol_live
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsollive/
     PHP Solutions Live is a bootable Linux distribution, created for people who want to run and test scripts in a new environment without modifying the current platform. PHP Solutions Live joins the list at version 1.2.0 released July 23, 2004.

241. Puppy Linux
     http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
     Puppy Linux is a very small, yet quite fully featured distribution. Puppy boots into a 48M ramdisk, and then runs entirely in RAM. 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. Puppy live-CD version 0.7.9 was released December 22, 2003. Version 0.9.5 was released October 5, 2004.

242. 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. Version 11.2 was released October 22, 2004.

243. 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. Version 2.1 was released April 27, 2004.

244. Rocks Cluster Distribution
     http://www.rocksclusters.org/
     Rocks Cluster emphasizes ease of management, configurability and security in clusters. As early version was based on Red Hat Linux 7.3. Version 2.3.2 was released April 1, 2003. Rocks 3.2.0 Beta was released April 8, 2004.

245. RUNT
     http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/runt/
     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 3.2 was released January 29, 2004.

246. SCMLinux
     http://scmlinux.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmlinux/
     The SCMLinux distribution provides a minimal, secure, and redundant architecture for those who seek a software configuration management system. It includes a rewrite of CVS version 1.11.6 that includes problem reporting functionality. Version Alpha was released December 11, 2003.

247. Scyld Beowulf
     http://www.scyld.com/scyld_os.html
     The Scyld Beowulf Cluster Operating System is a complete Linux distribution designed to operate and manage an entire beowulf cluster. It features a single-system-image (SSI) design that virtually eliminates the pains associated with software provisioning and version skews. The operating system needs only to be installed on the designated "master node." As each compute node is powered up on the private network, the master node automatically installs and configures the appropriate software on the compute node. All software installation and configuration is performed on the master node. Supported systems include 32-bit version supporting the Intel and AMD processors, 64-bit version supporting the AMD Opteron processor family, 64-bit version supporting the Itanium 2 processor family in Q3 2004.

248. Sentinix
     http://www.sentinix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/sentinix/
     Sentinix (formerly Compledge Sentinel) is a Linux distribution designed for monitoring, auditing and intrusion detection. - a complete solution to solve as many monitoring needs and aspects as possible. A wide variety of open source software is included: Nagios, Nagat, Nessus, Snort, ACID, openMosix, Apache /w OpenSSL, PHP and MySQL. The whole package is distributed on one CD, ready to install on any x86-based computer. Version RC2.1 was released May 22, 2003. Version 1.0 beta 01 was released on November 12, 2003. Version 0.70.5 (beta 2) was released November 24, 2003.

249. 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.

250. slimlinux
     http://slimlinux.freezope.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/slimlinux/
     slimlinux is a multi-purpose Linux mini-distribution which fits on one floppy or can be installed to a FAT partition. The initial release, v0.31, is dated January 12, 2004. Version 0.8.0 was released September 27, 2004.

251. SmartPeer
     http://www.smartpeer.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/smartpeer/
     SmartPeer is a free, open source load balancing solution that runs from a single bootable CD-ROM (based on Morphix). SmartPeer allows you to balance your web traffic to distribute the load across multiple servers and also gives you an easy way to keep your website running while individual web servers are removed from production for maintenance, replacement, or due to failure. SmartPeer joins the list at version 0.0.2, released April 26, 2004.

252. SPB-Linux
     http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/
     2.1 beta site 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.

253. 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 0.3.0pre1 was released August 29, 2004.

254. System-Down::Rescue
     http://www.system-down.com/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/sd-rescue/
     System-Down::Rescue is a free downloadable live distribution. It is designed to recover damaged file-systems, copying the data around other physical discs or networks, or burning them on a CD-ROM, using cdrecord. It features a working hardware detection system. Initial version 1.0.0pre4 was released June 9, 2003. Version 1.0pre7 was released June 21, 2004.

255. 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 0.2.15 was released August 17, 2004.

256. 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 1.0.2 was released November 5, 2003. Version 2.0 was released May 6, 2004.

257. 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 0.17 was released September 12, 2004.

258. Tkfp Live!
     http://tkfp.sourceforge.net/
     Tkfp Live! is 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.

259. Trinux
     http://trinux.sourceforge.net/
     Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies. Trinux contains network security tools as well as support for Perl, PHP, and Python scripting languages. Remote Trinux boxes can be managed securely with OpenSSH. Version 0.80rc2 was released February 4, 2002. Version 0.890 was released August 8, 2003.

260. 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 is based on KNOPPIX v3.3. VigyaanCD v0.1-beta was released on March 22, 2004. Version 0.1 was released April 14, 2004.

261. Warewulf
     http://warewulf-cluster.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/warewulf/
     Warewulf is a unique Linux distribution for cluster nodes. It facilitates a central administration model for all nodes and includes tools needed to build configuration files, monitor, and control the nodes. It is totally customizable and can be adapted to just about any type of cluster. The node distributions are built from a virtual node filesystem residing on the master, transfered to the nodes either by Etherboot or CDROM images, and run from RAM. Administration is scalable and easy. It was originally designed for Beowulf, but can be used in other environments as well. The initial version, 0.3, was released March 11, 2002. Version 2.1 was released April 7, 2004.

262. 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. Version 0.51 was released June 28, 2004.

263. 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.

264. XenoLinux
     http://xen.terrabox.com/
     Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems. Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. XenoLinux is a fully functional port of Linux, 2.4 and 2.6, running over Xen, for a virtural general purpose Linux server.

     Floppy-based

265. 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 1.8.1 was released May 16, 2003.

266. 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 2.0.8 was released October 9, 2004.

267. 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.

268. Brutalware
     http://hysteria.sk/brutalware/
     Brutalware fits on two floppy disks with TCP/IP networking (currently only bootp-based) and one supplementary floppy with tons of hacking utilities. Great distribution for use in school labs and Internet cafes. Brutalware Linux 1.1 is a libc5 based 2.0.36 Linux distribution.

269. 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.

270. 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. Version 2.06 was released January 15, 2004. Stable version 2.13 was released August 31, 2004.

271. 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.

272. 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.

273. Fli4l (Floppy ISDN/DSL)
     http://www.fli4l.de/
     English: http://www.fli4l.de/e_index.htm
     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 2.1.8 was released September 12, 2004.

274. floppyfw
     http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/floppyfw/
     floppyfw is a static 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. Stable version 2.0.10 was released August 31, 2004. Development version 2.9.5 was released September 8, 2003.

275. 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.

276. herbix
     http://www.cuodan.net/~sina/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/herbix/
     Herbix is a Linux server that fits on a floppy. It supports ipchains and can serve FTP, HTTP, IRC, DHCP, SMTP, and IDENT. Version 1.0-25 was released April 1, 2002. Version 1.0-67_2 was released September 29, 2003.

277. Orange Linux
     http://orangelin.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/orangelin/
     Orange Linux is a floppy-based Linux distribution that includes a set of tools for making your own distribution, a VGA graphics library, and a small Pong game. Initial version 1.0 was released March 11, 2003. Version 1.0.1 was released February 18, 2004.

278. 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.

279. 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.

280. 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.

281. 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 is the current version, released December 6, 2001.

282. 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.

283. 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.

284. 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.

285. ADIOS
     http://dc.qut.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. Version 3.09 was released May 8, 2004.

286. BBLCD Toolkit
     http://bblcd.berlios.de/
     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 was released October 1, 2003.

287. 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 0.4.8 (stable) was released April 6, 2004. Version 0.5.3 (Alpha) was released March 28, 2004.

288. Cool Linux CD
     http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/emergencycd2/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/coollinuxcd/
     Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD that contains a live Linux distribution based on Red Hat 7.3. It also includes the XFS filesystem, devfs, IceWM, QVWM, ROX-filer, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Mozilla, Sylpheed, Pan, Licq, X-chat, GFTP, ppp-redialer, xmms, xine, mplayer, gqview, LinNeighborhood, IPTraffic, VMWare, and more. Initial version 1.30 was released August 13, 2002. Version 2.01 was released November 24, 2002. Version 2.3 was released September 17, 2003.

289. 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. Version 2.6.7 for X86_64/AMD64 was released July 17, 2004.

290. Damn Small Linux
     http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
     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. Version 0.8.3 was released October 27, 2004.

291. Debian From Scratch
     http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/
     DFS is yet another Debian live CD, with an emphasis on system rescue tools and the ability to install Debian (including the x86_64 port) onto a hard disk. Perhaps the most interesting part, however, is the "DFSbuild" utility, which enables the creation of custom live CDs with whatever packages seem like they might be useful. The initial version was released May 21, 2004.

292. Deep-Water/Linux
     http://deep-water.berlios.de/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/deep-water/
     Deep-Water/Linux is a fully graphical minimalist boot CD distribution, featuring the Deep-View file browser. It joins the list at version 0.2.0, released January 26, 2004. Version 0.4.0 was released July 4, 2004.

293. 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.

294. 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 was released October 16, 2004.

295. distccKNOPPIX
     http://opendoorsoftware.com/cgi/http.pl?p=distccKNOPPIX
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/distccknoppix/
     Open Door Software created distccKNOPPIX, a directly bootable and self-configuring Linux system on a small iso (~48MB) running a distccd daemon. It is a simple remastering of Damn Small Linux (which is KNOPPIX-based) running a distccd daemon and some general cleaning up/removal of unneeded packages/apps. Its obvious target is for those who have other machines at their hands, and for some reason or an other can not get a distccd daemon running on it. distccKNOPPIX joins the list at version 0.0.4, released July 4, 2003. Version 0.1.3 was released August 21, 2004.

296. dyne:bolic GNU/Linux
     http://www.dynebolic.org/
     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. Initial version 0.3.1 was released February 17, 2002. Stable version 1.3 was released April 22, 2004.

297. EMERGENCY CD
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/emergencycd2/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/emergencycd2/
     The LINUX EMERGENCY CD project has a bootable CD-ROM distribution, with Linux kernel 2.4.19-xfs(i586). It's a console-only mini-distribution based on Red Hat 7.3 and includes many console tools and utilities. The initial version, 2.01, was released under the GNU General Public License on January 27, 2003. Version 3.0 was released October 28, 2003.

298. 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 0.6.1 was released October 26, 2004.

299. FIRE
     http://biatchux.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.

300. 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 2.0 was released June 6, 2004.

301. 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. Version 0.8 was released August 15, 2004. Version 0.8.1b9 was released October 14, 2004.

302. GNUstep Live CD
     http://www.linuks.mine.nu/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 0.5 was released June 2004.

303. 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 2.0.1 was released July 19, 2004.

304. 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 1.2.16 was released October 18, 2004.

305. 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.

306. KANOTIX
     http://kanotix.com/
     KANOTIX is a KNOPPIX based live CD using mostly Debian sid packages optimized for i586. KANOTIX "BUG HUNTER" 08-2004 was announced September 20, 2004. An update to "Bug Hunter" 09-2004 was released October 5, 2004. Another update, version 09-2004-A, was released October 17, 2004.

307. 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.

308. 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 0.7 was released October 14, 2004.

309. KNOPPIX
     http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
     German: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/knoppix/
     A German distribution. 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. Version 1.5 (the initial Freshmeat announcement) was released May 29, 2002. Knoppix 3.6, "aKademy Edition" was released August 23, 2004. Version 3.6-2004-08-16 was released October 6, 2004.

310. 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.

311. 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.

312. LinuxDefender
     http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=40
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxdefender/
     LinuxDefender Live! CD is a Rescue CD based on Knoppix. It features full NTFS write support (using Captive). It also includes instant antivirus and antispam SMTP protection, which is managed via Webmin. Desktop antivirus protection is integrated into the KDE interface, using BitDefender for Linux technology. The first version of the LinuxDefender Live! CD (2003-12-18) was launched at the Romanian LUG event LinuxConf 2003. Version 1.5.6 was released June 18, 2004.

313. 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 4.2.4 was released October 17, 2004.

314. Linux LiveCD
     http://www.wifi.com.ar/english/
     Spanish: http://www.wifi.com.ar/
     Portuguese: http://www.wifi.com.ar/brasil/
     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 2.0.5 was released November 1, 2004.

315. 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.

316. LNX-BBC
     http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
     The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a business card sized CDROM. LNX-BBC can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, install Debian, and perform many other tasks. Version 2.1 was released May 1, 2003.

317. 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.

318. 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.

319. Mandows
     http://www.ackmicro.com/mandows/
     English: http://trans.voila.fr/voila?systran_lp=fr_en&systran_f=1076046293&
     systran_id=Voila-fr&systran_url=http://mandows.apinc.org/?id=news
     Mandows is a live CD project based in France. Mandows is based on Mandrake 9.2 fivestar. A package list is available here. Version 1.4 was released under the GPL on February 3, 2004. Current version is 1.5, released February 15, 2004.

320. Mastodon
     http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Mastodon/
     Mastodon, version INST0064 was released March 9, 2001. It is a self-booting 360MB CD image, suitable for burning onto a CD-ROM.

321. Mediainlinux
     http://www.mediainlinux.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/mediainlinux/
     Mediainlinux is a live CD based on Knoppix. It includes all audio, graphics and video software included in Debian. Version 1.0 was released February 17, 2004 - based on KNOPPIX 3.3 with extra packages from Debian experimental and unstable trees. Version 2 was released July 29, 2004.

322. MEPIS Linux
     http://www.mepis.org/
     MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux that is also easy to configure 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. MEPIS Linux 2003.06 for Pentium processors, released June 16, 2003, includes features such as automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased truetype fonts, personal firewall, KDE 3.1.2, and much more. MEPIS Linux is derived from the Debian GNU/Linux code base. Version 2003.08.01 was released October 1, 2003. Version 2003.10 was released November 27, 2003. SimplyMEPIS 2004.04 was released October 25, 2004.

323. 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).

324. Morphix
     http://www.morphix.org/
     http://am.xs4all.nl/drupal/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/morphix/
     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. Version 0.4-1 was released Sepptember 23, 2003.

325. 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 0.6-alpha was released May 21, 2004.

326. PCLinuxOS
     http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos
     PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 is a live CD based on Mandrake 9.2. Data on the CD is uncompressed on the fly, allowing up to 2 GB worth of system and programs on one CD including a complete X server, KDE 3.1.4 and Gnome 2.4, and large packages like OpenOffice 1.1final and Mozilla 1.5 plus plugins. Since it runs solely off the CD, PCLinuxOS can be used as a portable Linux demo or system rescue disk, but its completeness makes it a good general purpose desktop as well. PCLinuxOS should work on most modern computer hardware. PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 was the current version as of December 17, 2003. PCLinuxOS 2k4 Preview 7 was released June 7, 2004.

327. 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.

328. 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.

329. 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 released March 16, 2004.

330. 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 0.6.9.1 was released November 1, 2004.

331. 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.

332. rpm-livelinuxcd
     http://nwst.de/livelinuxcd/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpm-livelinuxcd/
     rpm-livelinuxcd is a 120MB RedHat-based distribution that runs completely from CD, fits into around 80MB of RAM and is nearly indistinguishable from a system installed on a hard disk. Features include hardware recognition at boot, samba, dhcpd, name, xinetd, and SSH servers, virtual terminals, PAM, etc. Useful for dedicated servers, routers, emergency systems, cluster nodes and such, it does not contain an X11 Server. Initial version 0.9 was released March 5, 2003. Version 0.9-98 was released August 22, 2003. Workstation version 1.3 was released June 12, 2004.

333. RunOnCD
     http://www.easylinux.co.kr/
     Use Linux without the installation. Version 2.1 of RunOnCD is based on Red Hat 7.1. This site is mostly in Korean, with some English. Version 2.1 is dated December 7, 2001.

334. RxLinux
     http://on-x.ca/html/rxlinux.html
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/rxlinux/
     RxLinux seeks to centralize configuration and management of multiple Linux servers. A Web interface is used to build custom ISO CD-ROMs dedicated for specific servers. Servers, also called rxnodes, boot up from that CD-ROM and get the rest of the configuration and software from a master server. No administration is done directly on the nodes; everything is controlled from the master servers. When the rxnode has finished booting up and all software is running, it is completely independent from the rxmaster until the next reboot. The initial version, 1.0 beta1 was released July 5, 2002. Version 1.7.0 was released April 23, 2004.

335. 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.

336. SAM
     http://sam.hipsurfer.com/
     SAM is a bootable Linux-CD based on Mandrakelinux. Installation on hard drive is not necessary with SAM, but it is possible. SAM is under 210mb, so it fits on a 8cm-mini-CD and is ideal for carrying in the pocket. Although it is small, it contains a full graphical desktop environment with office, Internet, multimedia and graphics applications, and even a few games. SAM joins the list at TestRelease 1.0, released September 28, 2004. Version 1.1 was released November 10, 2004.

337. ScummLinux
     https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummlinux/
     http://freshmeat.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.

338. 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-rc15 was released September 22, 2004.

339. SLAX-Live CD
     http://slax.linux-live.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 4.1.4 was released August 30, 2004.

340. 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 0.7 was released April 16, 2004.

341. 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.

342. 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.

343. Trinity Rescue Kit
     http://trinityhome.org/trk/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/trk/
     The Trinity Rescue Kit is based on Mandrake 9.0. 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. Version 1.1 build 98 was released July 27, 2003.

344. TURKIX
     http://www.turkix.org/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/turkix/
     Turkix is a Mandrake based live Linux distribution with support for Turkic languages like Turkish and Azerbaijani. The second major release (2.0) will be in English. Turkix comes with a rehack of rpm packaging system, called as "rpmx", an embedded wrapper of rpm that understands the new virtual file hierarachy used by TURKIX. Designed to make Windows and MacOS users feel at home while getting them acquainted with the classical UNIX file hierarchy. Version 1.9 was released September 26, 2004.

345. X-Evian
     http://www.x-evian.org/
     http://freshmeat.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.

346. 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.

347. XoL - Diskless X office Linux
     http://www.sol-linux.com/Private/XoL/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/xol/
     XoL is a diskless Linux "Live CD" distribution from the makers of SoL (Server optimized Linux). Nothing is written to the hard drive unless the user really wants to save it. It offers both KDE and GNOME, OpenOffice.org, and USB storage device support for storing data. XoL joins the list at version 17.00o.BETA, released January 14, 2004. XoL 18.00 was released May 5, 2004.

     Zip disk-based

348. 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.

349. 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

350. 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 3.32 was released October 12, 2004.

351. Peanut Linux
     http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/
     Peanut Linux is only a 375 Mb. download, packed with fun and useful applications.

352. 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. TA-Linux 0.2.0-Beta2 (i386) was released August 22, 2002. Version 0.2.0-beta4 (i386) was released June 10, 2003.

353. Tomukas
     http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/tomukas/
     Tomukas is a small Linux mini-distribution, featuring busybox, tinylogin, mc, joe, ssh, X-window with fvwm1 and not much else. Not for beginners.

354. 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 4.3 was released October 31, 2004.

355. 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 4.3 was released September 21, 2004.

     Wireless

356. Bambi Linux
     ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/bambi/
     A Red Hat based wireless distribution. Bambi 7.0 was released April 13, 2003.

     Hardware-specific

     (Alpha)

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

     (ARM)

358. Aleph ARMlinux
     http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/distros.html
     Aleph One provides well-documented Linux distributions for various ARM-based systems. LWN distribution survey results for February 6, 2000.

359. 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.

     (PA-RISC)

360. 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 release is the latest in a series representing several years of work by developers in the Free Software community including developers from The Debian Project, Hewlett Packard, ESIEE, and Linuxcare.

     (PowerPC)

361. Black Lab Linux
     http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/blacklab/
     Terra Soft Solutions provides Black Lab for HPC Clusters. It features a graphical installation, configuration, and maintenance suite for Yellow Dog Linux HPC (high performance computing) clusters. It's designed to work with Apple Macintosh and Terra Soft's Yellow briQ Nodes. Black Lab ships with the YDL 2.1 foundation and includes a subscription for 2 upgrades to future releases of both YDL and Black Lab.

362. 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.

363. 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.

364. Yellow Dog
     http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
     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" (Blue & White G3s and newer) machines. Simple to install, YDL offers a graphical installer, KDE (an elegant, mature GUI), and over 900 applications to fulfill server, code developer, and home/office needs. YDL 3.0 was released March 19, 2003. YDL 4.0 was released September 29, 2004.

     (Sparc)

365. Aurora Sparc Project
     http://auroralinux.org/
     This Sparc Linux distribution is 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. Version 1.92 (Tangerine) was released October 16, 2004.

366. UltraLinux
     http://www.ultralinux.org/
     UltraLinux is one of the first, if not the first, port of Linux to the SPARC family of processors most commonly found in Sun workstations and clones. It supports most workstations including the older 32bit SPARC processors and the newer 64bit UltraSPARC based workstations.

     (Older Intel)

367. 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.

368. 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, 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.

369. 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.

     DOS/Windows install

370. APAWS Linux with Gallery
     http://www.swimmingbird.com/download.php
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/apawsdistro/
     APAWS Linux with Gallery is a customized mini Linux distribution that runs mostly in RAM and includes everything you need to run a personal photo repository using Gallery. It is about 40MB in size and is configured with defaults to let you upload photos straight after booting it. A demo version of APAWS 1.0.0, that runs on Windows 2000 or XP, became available May 4, 2004.

371. 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 0.6.2-pre6 was released October 30, 2004.

372. Klinux
     http://www.daif.net/klinux/english.htm
     Klinux is 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 (563MB) 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.

373. Linux for Windows 9X
     http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/patv/
     This is a Windows 9X friendly version of Linux. It installs onto a Windows 9X disk and allows for two way exchange of files between both Linux and Win9X.

374. 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.

375. Phat Linux
     http://www.phatlinux.com/
     In late 1998, Phat Linux created a simple, easy to use Linux operating system that ran on a Windows 95/98 partition. Phat Linux v3.3 comes with lots of popular software, including KDE 2.0, XFree86 3.3.6, Netscape, and much much more.

376. TopologiLinux
     http://http://hem.passagen.se/svto/tlinux/
     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 was based on Slackware 8.1. TopologiLinux v1.0 was released August 25, 2002. Topologilinux 5.0.0 was released October 19, 2004.

     Diskless Terminal

377. 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.

378. ARSIG
     http://www.arsig.ru/
     ARSIG is a GNU Linux distribution designed especially for diskless routers, where the main (primary) boot-up device is compact-flash card. The goal is to make the "static" part of the operating system lay on the CF card, mounted as readonly. All other parts of the OS that need read-write access are mounted in RAM. ARSIG is based on Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl). Initial Freshmeat announcement, version 1.0_pre01 (PHDS), was released January 4, 2003.

379. GNU/Linux TerminalServer for Schools
     http://termserv.berlios.de/
     Administration of school networks is complicated, time- and money-consuming. Even stable and low-adminstration Linux networks still need complete and powerful computers. Software still has to be installed on each computer. The FSuB TerminalServer (Code name "Dead sisyphos") is an approach to make administration of networks easier and to enable the reuse of older computers. Debian based. The website is available in German and English.

380. K12LTSP
     http://www.k12ltsp.org/
     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. Version 4.1 was released August 10, 2004.

381. 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. Version 4.1 was released August 4, 2004.

382. 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.

383. PXES Linux Thin Client
     http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/pxes/
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxes
     PXES will convert any complaint 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. Version 0.9-1 was released August 5, 2004.

     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.

384. 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.

385. CAEN Linux
     http://www.engin.umich.edu/caen/systems/Linux/caenlinux/
     The CAEN RedHat 6.1 (BlueHat) distribution was an effort put together by CAEN to provide a free, downloadable release of RedHat 6.1 that would be "secure out of the box" and well configured for the University of Michigan environment. The site seems to have been last updated in September 2000.

386. 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.

387. Definite Linux
     http://www.dlsl.demon.co.uk/definite.html
     http://www.definitelinux.com/
     Definite Linux was a boxed set of desktop Linux and applications. It hasn't been maintained since late 2000.

388. DLX
     http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html
     DLX is a full featured Linux system running on Intel PCs. DLX comes on a single 3.5in. floppy disk. DLX also supports a parallel-port ZIP-Drive drive. Good for network trouble-shooting and/or FTPing from a university pc-lab. Last new version was released in 1996.

389. 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. The DragonLinux project was declared dead on May 30, 2002.

390. 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.

391. 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.

392. Finnix
     http://www.finnix.org/
     Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution, based on Red Hat Linux 6.1. Finnix was created as a system maintenance distribution. You can mount hard drives, set up network devices, repair filesystems, and pretty much do anything you can do with a regular distribution.

393. FlightLinux
     http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/
     FlightLinux is a concept that uses a real-time variation of the open source Linux Operating System for onboard spacecraft use. The Flight Linux Project officially completed on June 30, 2002.

394. Fried Chicken
     http://linuxlab.dk/fcl/
     Fried Chicken Linux (FCL) is a Linux software repository designed for use by students and staff at the IT University of Copenhagen. FCL contains Fried Chicken Linux packages and integrates these with Red Hat Linux. The Repository furthermore comprises mirrors of the Red Hat distributions and updates to these. Finally, automatically updated Red Hat distributions are 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 does seem to be alive and well.

395. Giotto
     http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/giotto/
     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.

396. 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.

397. 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.

398. Ivrix
     http://ivrix.org.il/
     Ivrix is a project aimed at creating a free Linux distribution with complete Hebrew support.

399. Jailbait
     http://jailbait.sourceforge.net/
     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.

400. JAMD-Linux
     http://www.jamd-linux.com/upgraded69/index.php
     JAMD-Linux is a distribution based on Red Hat aimed for the end user, recompilied for i686 and above processors. It fits on a single CD, yet is fully featured with OpenOffice, Mozilla Web browser, Evolution PIM, GnuCash personal finance, the Gimp graphics editor, games, educational software, and more; with a four step install (mouse, timezone, administrator password, User account creation). The initial version, 0.0.1, was released September 2, 2002. Version 0.0.6 was released May 29, 2003.. Merged with Blue Linux in January 2004 to become Ares Desktop (in the Non-technical desktop section).

401. Laonux
     http://files.moo.ca/~laotzu/laonux.html
     Laonux is a relatively small Linux distribution that contains most of the basics that you would expect in a Linux system, but nothing more. It features gcc-2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, and kernel 2.2.14. It is not easy to install, but it provides a complete system. It is great for hobbyists who wish build up their own personalized Linux distribution from a basic core.

402. 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.

403. Leka Rescue Floppy
     http://leka.muumilaakso.org/
     Leka Rescue Floppy is a small Linux distribution that fits on a single 1,44Mb floppy. It is mainly aimed for OS/hardware disaster recovery. (Leka is Finnish for sledgehammer) The initial release, version 0.5.0, was dated February 26, 2002. V0.5.1 was released the following day. Stable version 0.7.1 was released July 6, 2002.

404. Linux in a Pillbox (LIAP)
     http://www.liap.eu.org/
     This project puts together encapsulated pieces of a Linux operating system. Site is in English and Polish. Last update September 8, 2002.

405. Linux Router Project
     http://www.linuxrouter.org/
     LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and makes building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial. The site is still there, but not much else. This entry was moved to historical section July 23, 2003. There is a new LRP, with an entry in "Special Purpose".

406. 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).

407. 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.

408. Netserva Dlite
     http://www.netserva.com/sw.php
     Netserva Dlite is a small 20mb downloadable Debian based distribution that comes with a basic set of pre-configured ISP-related services such as virtual web hosting, email and RADIUS. All client authentication is via MySQL so normal user shell accounts are not required. The system, in theory, could scale to supporting millions of users. The latest update was on February 2, 2002. Moved to historical section October 22, 2003.

409. 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.

410. 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.

411. 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.

412. Stampede
     http://www.stampede.org/
     Stampede is a development project whose goal is to create the definitive Linux distribution for novice and experienced users alike. It aims to be fast, stable, secure, and to create new innovations and spur new growth of the Linux operating system in a world otherwise saturated with bloated, yet feature-lacking distributions. Stampede development has been on hiatus since March 1, 2002.

413. Think Blue Linux
     http://linux.s390.org/
     Think Blue was the original port of Linux to the IBM mainframe. ThinkBlue/64 7.1a, a respin of ThinkBlue/64 7.1 with all updates integrated was released October 11, 2001.

414. 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).

415. 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.

416. 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.

417. 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.