[ Linux Distributions ]

Full Distros

CD-based / Mini-cd / BBC Distros

• ArchLinux 0.5 - 1 CD
• ArchLinux 0.6 - 1 CD
• ASPLinux Server 7.2 - 2 CDs
• ASPLinux Server 7.3 - 3 CDs
• ASPLinux 9.0 - 3 CDs
• Astaro Beta 6 ( 5.9 050624 ) - 1 CD
• Astaro 6.2 - 1 CD
• Asterisk@Home 2.8 - 1 CD
• Centos 3.1 - 3 CDs
• Centos 3.3 - 3 CDs ( RHEL 3 Update 1 )
• Centos 4 - 1 DVD ( RHEL 4 )
• Centos 4.2 i386 - 5 CDs
• Centos 4.2 x64 - 5 CDs
• Centos 4.3 x64 - 4 CDs
• Centos 4.5 - 1 DVD
• Centos 5.1 i386/x64 - 1 DVD
• Centos 5.3 i386/x64 - 1 DVD
• Crux 2.0 - 1 CD
• Dyne:Bolic 1.3 - 1 CD
• EnGarde Community - 1 CD
• Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) - 3 CDs
• Fedora Core 2 - 4 CDs
• Fedora Core 4 64-bit - 5 CDs
• FreeBSD 5.0 - 1 CD
• FreeBSD 5.1 - 1 CD
• Gentoo 1.4
• Gibraltar 2.0 - 1 CD
• Gibraltar 2.3 - 1 CD
• Icepack Linux 2.0.1 - 1 CD
• Immunix 7.0 - 1 CD
• K12LTSP 2.0.2 - 2 CDs
• K12LTSP 2.1.0 - 3 CDs
• K12LTSP 2.1.2 - 3 CDs
• K12LTSP 3.1.1 - 4 CDs
• K12LTSP 4.0 - 4 CDs
• Libranet 2.7 Classic - 1 CD
• Lycoris ( Amethyst Update 2 ) - 1 CD
• Mandrake 8.1 - 3 CDs
• Mandrake 8.2 - 3 CDs
• Mandrake 9.0 - 2 CDs
• Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) - 3 CDs
• Mandrake MNF - 1 CD
• Mandrake 10 Official - 3 CDs
• Mandrake 10.1 Official - 3 CDs
• Peanut Linux 9.2 - 1 CD
• Peanut Linux 9.5 - 1 CD
• Red Hat 7.1 ( Seawolf ) - 2 CDs
• Red Hat 7.2 ( Enigma ) - 2 CDs
• Red Hat 8.0 ( Psyche ) - 3 CDs
• Red Hat 9.0 ( Shrike ) - 3 CDs
• Sentinix 0.70.5 - 1 CD
• SimplyMEPIS 3.4.3 - 1 CD
• Slackware 7.1 - 1 CD
• Slackware 8.0 - 1 CD
• Slackware 8.1.01 - 1 CD
• Slackware 9.0 - 2 CDs
• Slackware 9.1 - 2 CDs
• Slackware 10.0/1 - 2 CDs
• Slackware 11 - 2 CDs
• Slackware 12.0-12.2 - 1 DVD
• Slackware 13 - 1 DVD
• SLED 10 x64 - 1 DVD
• SLES 10.1 i386 - 1 DVD
• SLES 10.1 x64 - 1 DVD
• Skolelinux - 1 CD
• Smoothwall 2.0 Express - 1 CD
• Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 - 1 CD
• Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 - 1 CD
• Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 - 1 CD
• Turbolinux Server 6.5 - 1 CD
• Turbolinux WS 6.1 - 1 CD
• Turbolinux WS 7.0 - 2 CDs
• Ubuntu 5.0.4 ( Hoary ) - 1 CD
• Ubuntu 5.0.4 64-bit ( Hoary ) - 1 CD
• Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 - i386/x64 - DVD
• Vector Linux 1.8 - 1 CD
• Vector Linux 3.2 - 1 CD
• Vector Soho 2.1 Beta - 1 CD
• Vector Linux 4 - 1 CD
• Vector Linux SOHO 5.0.1 - 1 CD
• Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3.0 ( Liberation ) Fixed - 3 CDs
• Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3.0 ( Liberation ) Respin 1 - 3 CDs
• Yoper Linux 1.1 - 2 CDs
• Zenwalk Linux 1.2 ( formerly minislack ) - 1 CD
• Zenwalk 2.4 - 1 CD

• ByzantineOS 14062003 - mini/bbc
• ByzantineOS 04042004 - mini/bbc
• Chaos 1.3 - mini/bbc
• ClusterKnoppix 3.3 05-2004 - 1 Full
• ClusterKnoppix 3.4 08-2004 - 1 Full
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 0.3.11 - 1 mini/bbc
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 0.4.6 - 1 mini/bbc
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 0.4.8 - 1 mini/bbc
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 0.7 - 1 mini/bbc
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 1.0.1 - 1 mini/bbc
• Damn Small Linux ( DSL ) 1.5 - 1 mini/bbc
• Knoppix 3.1 31-10-2002 - 1 Full
• Knoppix 3.2 03-2003 - 1 Full
• Knoppix 3.4 08-2004 - 1 Full
• Knoppix 3.6 16-08-2004 - 1 Full
• LNX BBC 2.1 - mini/bbc
• MoviX² 0.3.0rc2 - mini/bbc
• MoviX² 0.3.1pre4 - mini/bbc
• MoviX² 0.8.3 - mini/bbc
• Morphix Base 0.41 - mini/bbc
• Salvare 0.1.0 - mini/bbc
• Slax 5.0.4 - mini
• Slax 5.0.5 - mini
• Slax 5.0.6 - mini
• Smoothwall 1.0 - cd-based firewall
• Smoothwall 2.0beta5 - cd-based firewall
• Smoothwall 2.0 Express - cd-based firewall
• Smoothwall 3.0 Express - cd-based firewall
• Salvare 0.1.0 - mini/bbc
• Trinity ( TRK ) 1.0 Build 80 - mini/bbc
• Trinity ( TRK ) 1.1 Build 98 - mini/bbc
• Ubunutu 5.0.4 Live - 1 CD
• Winslack 16-8-2002 - 1 Full

Distro Descriptions

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 quite streamlined compared to some other distributions. Things that are relatively unused are not kept (info-pages, for example). A default Arch install leaves you with a solid base; from there, you can add packages to create the custom installation you're looking for. Arch has a package build system that allows you to easily create your own packages, which makes it very easy to rebuild a package with your own custom configuration. Arch also aims to use the newer features available to linux users, such as ReiserFS/ext3 and udev.

ASPLinux

ASPLinux is Russian company developing ASPLinux distribution and providing a wide range of professional services such as porting existing applications to Linux from other OS, development of embedded GNU/Linux solutions for custom hardware platforms such as consumer electronic devices, including porting GNU/Linux OS itself if needed, software development for GNU/Linux, technical support, consulting, training. In March 2001 ASPLinux and Black Cat Linux Team, developers of the popular in Russia and CIS Linux distrubution, merged. ASPLinux company headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia and it has offices in the Ukraine and representative offices in Bulgaria, USA, Singapore and Korea.

Centos

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users. Typical CentOS users are organisations and individuals that do not need strong commercial support in order to achieve successful operation. CentOS is 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system stability without the cost of certification and support.

Dynebolic

dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution running from a CD and able to recognise most of your devices and peripherals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, USB devices and more. It is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creative individuals, a practical tool for multimedia production. You can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools t o record, edit, encode and stream, all using free software!

Fedora

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.

Icepack Linux

Icepack linux is an independent Linux distribution built from scratch. Our objective is to offer you a user-friendly full-featured operating system, pre-configured, well structured and easy to work with, and filled with the latest stable versions of great Linux applications. You don't need a profound Linux knowledge to install and use Icepack - our install manager guides you safely through the installation process, and the desktops and menus are self-explanatory!

Immunix

"Immunix" is a family of tools designed to enhance system integrity by hardening system components and platforms against security attacks. Immunix secures a Linux OS and applications. Immunix works by hardening existing software components and platforms so that attempts to exploit security vulnerabilities will fail safe, i.e. the compromised process halts instead of giving control to the attacker, and then is restarted. The software components are effectively "laminated" with Immunix technologies to harden them against attack.

K12LTSP

K12LTSP is based on Red Hat Linux and the LTSP terminal server packages. It's easy to install and configure. It's distributed under the GNU General Public License. That means it's free and it's based on Open Source software. Once installed, K12LTSP lets you boot diskless workstations from an applications server. You can use old PC's as diskless clients or buy new ones for under $200 each. All applications run on the terminal server. Workstations are "thin." They have no software or hard drives. Thin-clients are perfect for schools because they are easy to install and require little maintenance. They are reliable and immune to malicious tampering and viruses.

Libranet

The Libranet Linux Desktop is a production of Libra Computer Systems Ltd. Libra has been providing UNIX systems and software development since 1984. We are located in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada. We chose Debian as the base of Libranet. Debian GNU/Linux is solid and true to the spirit of GNU/Linux. We are a small team who see the future in GNU/Linux. We believe that Libranet is not only a solid replacement for Microsoft Windows, but surpasses it in almost all aspects. As GNU/Linux evolves and more and more hardware becomes supported, we find no need to run anything else. Libranet runs in our own office on both desktops and servers and fulfills all our business and personal computing needs. Our goal is to continue to produce a system to be proud of.

Lycoris

Lycoris is located in Redmond, Washington. The corporation was started in the year 2000 with a vision of making Linux easy enough for anyone to use. Lycoris has enjoyed amazingly positive press coverage and has rocketed into the spotlight as the company that builds Desktop/LX, a simplified Linux desktop. Lycoris is currently seeking funding from angel investors and positioning itself as the leading provider of Linux specifically targeted for the desktop market.

Mandrake

Mandrake Linux was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was already well-known as a powerful and stable operating system that demanded strong technical knowledge and extensive use of the "command line"; MandrakeSoft saw this as an opportunity to integrate the best graphical desktop environments and contribute its own graphical configuration utilities and quickly became famous for setting the standard in ease-of-use and functionality. With this innovative approach, MandrakeSoft offers all the power and stability of Linux to both individuals and professional users in an easy-to-use and pleasant environment. Thousands of new users are discovering Linux each and every day and finding it a complete replacement for their previous operating system. Linux as a server or workstation has no reason to be jealous of any other more established operating systems.

Peanut Linux

Do you want an alternative to your existing OS? With Peanut Linux you only have to download 85 MB. How's that! Just 85 MB of data contain this already pre-software configured OS with a spectacular GUI and the most versatile operating system available today! (It's especially made for people new to Linux). This is the most POWERFUL and FUN distribution yet! We aim to please all users, experts and newbies alike who have already installed Windows 9x or Windows NT/2000 with a full installation. And of course Peanut Linux is jam packed with the newest LINUX software available today.The entire system when installed is less than 299 MB and this makes it the most convenient, fastest, operable and appealing LINUX distribution... you decide!

Red Hat

Red Hat is the leader in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure - ranging from embedded devices to secure Web servers. Red Hat was founded in 1994 by visionary entrepreneurs Bob Young and Marc Ewing. Open source is the foundation of our business model. It represents a fundamental shift in how software is created. The code that makes up the software is available to anyone. Developers who use the software are free to improve the software. The result: rapid innovation. Red Hat solutions combine Red Hat Linux, developer and embedded technologies, training, management services, technical support. We deliver this open source innovation to our customers via an Internet platform called Red Hat Network. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Slackware

The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table. Originally developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, the UNIX-like Linux operating system now benefits from the contributions of millions of users and developers around the world. Slackware Linux provides new and experienced users alike with a fully-featured system, equipped to serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machine-room server. Web, ftp, and email servers are ready to go out of the box, as are a wide selection of popular desktop environments. A full range of development tools, editors, and current libraries is included for users who wish to develop or compile additional software.

Smoothwall

SmoothWall is a family of Internet security products, designed to defend your users and your network from external attacks. SmoothWall Express is based on the Linux operating system. Linux is the ideal choice for security systems; it is well proven, secure, highly configurable and freely available as open source code. SmoothWall includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system, so there is no separate OS to install. Designed for ease of use, SmoothWall is configured via a web-based GUI, and requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use.

Skolelinux

Skolelinux is the Debian-edu project's Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) in development. It is aiming to provide an out-of-the-box localised environment tailored for schools and universities. The out-of-the-box environment comes with 75 applications aimed at schools, as well as 15 network services pre-configured for a school environment. The simple, three-question installation requires minimal technical knowledge. Skolelinux is Debian, which means, among other things, that there are no license costs or worries, and that upgrade and maintenance of the software can be done over the Internet with the power of Debian's apt-get. The core goals of Skolelinux are localisation and ease of system administration.

Morphix

Morphix is a derivative of Knoppix, another live CD distribution. Morphix is modular; this means that it consists of a number of parts which together form a working distribution. What does this mean to a normal user? Well, that's the good part: it doesn't even know about the modules. They are invisible to it, save the startup-output on the console. So, if you don't care about how it works, just grab one of the combined ISOs and boot it! There are different pre-made cd images with a whole range of (currently GUI-centered) software. It has an easy-to-use installer, if you wish to install it to your harddisk, but it doesn't need to be installed. It doesn't touch the rest of your system without specifically asking you.

Trustix

Trustix is the leading provider of systems and security management solutions for Linux. Trustix is a privately held corporation, with 60 employees located in Asia (Jakarta) and Scandinavia (Trondheim, Norway). The company was established late in 1997 by entrepreneurs from USA and Norway. The Trustix mission is to provide cost efficient eBusiness Systems Management Solutions for small and medium sized enterprises. Trustix Secure Linux is a Linux distribution aimed towards the server market. Its packages are carefully selected to provide the services in the most secure manner.

Turbolinux

Turbolinux distributions are designed from the ground-up specifically for enterprise computing. Turbolinux 7 Server was the first-ever to conform to Internationalization standards to help simplify development of applications that require multiple language support - a critical requirement for software distributed globally. Turbolinux 7 Server also supports the Large File Support (LFS) standard for working with applications that manage or handle up to four terabytes of data - a common requirement for infrastructures serving Fortune 500 and larger companies. Such industrial-strength environments provide the basis upon which PowerCockpit and other Turbolinux innovations were created.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

Vector Linux

Vector Linux is a small, fast, Intel based Linux operating system for PC style computers. The creators of Vector Linux had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be. What has evolved from this concept is perhaps the best little Linux operating system available anywhere. For the casual computer user you have a lightening fast desktop with graphical programs to handle your daily activities from web surfing, sending and receiving email, chatting on ICQ or IRC to running an ftp server. The power user will be pleased because all the tools are there to compile their own programs, use the system as a server or perhaps the gateway for their home or office computer network. Administrators will be equally as pleased because the small size and memory requirements of the operating system can be deployed on older machines maybe long forgotten.

Whitebox

What is the goal for White Box Linux? To provide an unencumbered RPM-based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their errata SRPMs. Being based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until October 2008 since RHEL promises errata availability for 5 years from date of initial release. Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL. Why was White Box Linux created? Its initial creation was sponsored by the Beauregard Parish Public Library in DeRidder, USA out of self interest. We have several servers and over 50 workstations running Red Hat Linux and were left high and dry by Red Hat's recent shift in business plan. Our choices were a difficult migration to another distribution or paying Red Hat an annual fee greater than the amortized value of our hardware. So we chose a third path, made possible by the power of open source.... White Box Linux.

Yoper Linux

Yoper is a multipurpose high performance operating system which has been carefully optimised for PC's with either 686 or higher processor types. The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch using the original sources combined with the best features of major distros, measuring up to the demanding proliferation of network communications and more intensive digital multimedia, graphics and audio capabilities which are ushering in a new era of business productivity enabled by a new generation of sophisticated microprocessors, and business application tools.

Zenwalk LInux

Zenwalk Linux (formerly Minislack) is a Slackware-based Linux distribution with focus on Internet applications, multimedia and programming tools. It is a complete system with software for Internet browsing, mail, chat, multimedia and office, as well as for programming in C, Perl, Python and Ruby. The main objectives of Zenwalk Linux are to be simple and fast, provide one application per task, be a complete development and desktop environment and to be small enough to fit on a 400MB ISO image.

ByzantineOS

ByzantineOS is a software Internet Appliance with a home entertainment bias. It is based on a networked Linux distribution/bootable system with Mozilla providing access to a range of services and applications. ByzantineOS fits on a 32MB (or 48MB) media and should work on any PC. With ByzantineOS CD-ROM, there is no need for hard-disks or floppy drives.

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, USB support, and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.

Knoppix

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

LNX BBC

The LNX-BBC is a miniature Linux-based GNU distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card. In 1999 Duncan MacKinnon, Tom Crimi, and Seth David Schoen started work on the project at Linuxcare. Linuxcare printed 10,000 copies of the "Linuxcare Bootable Business Card" to be distributed at the then-upcoming LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The give-away mini CD-ROMs were a huge success and have generated steady praise and thanks for their rescue capabilities, attracting many other developers to the project. The BBC went through seven versions, five of which were pressed into business-card sized CD-ROMs and handed out at trade shows or distributed by mail to Linux User Groups around the world.

MoviX²

MoviX is a package that allows you to create bootable CDs able to boot & autoplay your multimedia files. It is intended mainly to play video files but if you want it can be used to play also audio files. I plan to release eventually a distro similar to MoviX but aimed at audio only, so stay tuned! The philosophy behind MoviX is to make possible to generate video/audio CDs that are self-sufficient, i.e. that you can play on every PC regardless of what is installed on it: just insert the MoviX CD inside a CD/DVD-ROM and boot the PC from there! MoviX2 is a small Linux distro on CD aimed at playing multimedia: when you boot your PC with the MoviX2 CD the distro should be able to start X-Window and launch gmplayer, the GUI interface to mplayer, so that you are left with a nice user-friendly interface you can control by your mouse. At that point you can safely remove the MoviX2 CD and play all multimedia files you want: DVD [no zone constraint], VCD, DivX, avi, mpg, mp3, ogg etc.

Salvare

Trinity

Winslack