The objective of the ADIOS project is to provide students with an operating system where they have administrative privileges.  At the same time provide a reliable version of the operating system.  One method is to download a pre-installed version of the operating system onto the PC in the laboratory.  There are many ways to do this and many software packages available.  The ADIOS project uses a web server to deliver Operating System ../images.  The ADIOS setup image is used to install other operating systems into disk partitions.  It has also been configured to save copies of the OS ../images on spare disk partitions to reduce network traffic.  Recently the setup image has been ported onto the CDROM.  In summary the work is now divided into the following directions:

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• Homepage http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Arabbix

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• Homepage http://www.zaralinux.org/proy/augustux/

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Created by the Zaporozhec Linux User Group (ZLUG) in the Ukraine, is a free Linux operating system for x86 processors. It doesn't need to be installed on a hard disk as it is run directly from the bootable CD. The comfortable graphical user interface, based on Ximian GNOME, and excellent support for Cyrillic alphabet (Russian, Ukrainian...) makes Blin Linux a useful alternative to similar existing products. It is designed for novice users who have just started using Linux as well as for experienced system integrators. The distribution's web site is in Russian.

• Homepage  http://www.zaralinux.org/proy/augustux/

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ByzantineOS fits in 32MB (or 48MB) of media and should work on any PC.

Note: With ByzantineOS CD-ROM, there is no need of hard-disks, floppy drives and others. All is needed is a diskless computer

• Homepage   http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/

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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 configurable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA, SCSI, USB, etc.).

CDlinux is still under developing, currently only Simplified Chinese is fully supported.

• Homepage http://cdlinux.berlios.de/

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Features:

• OpenMosix terminal server - uses PXE, DHCP and tftp to boot Linux clients via the network.
• No cdrom drive/harddisk/floppy needed for the clients
  openMosix autodiscovery - new nodes automatically join the cluster (no configuration needed)
• Cluster Management tools - openMosix userland/openMosixview Every node has root access to every other node via ssh/RSAkeys
  MFS/dfsa support
• Every node can run full blown X (PC-room/demo setup) or console only (more memory available)

• Homepage http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/

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• Description for version 2.3:
• Kernel 2.4.20-wolk and 2.4.22 with supermount, squashfs, shfs patches and ALSA 0.9.6 drivers;
• Choice Linux kernel and params for FrameBuffer and XFree86 (resolution);
  Save/restore config on floppy;
• Restore config from second session on CoolLinuxCD (in multisession mode);
• Write to CD-RW devices in second CDRW device (if this not boot device);
• Choice language in bootup process (now support only English and Russian languages);
• Autodetect all hardware and autoconfig XFree86;
• USB mouse and keyboard support;
• IceWM window manager with ROX-filer as desktop and file manager;

• Homepage http://www.linux.rodniki.ru/ (Russian)

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.

Because having a working Linux desktop on a 50 MB bootable business card CD is just too cool not to do.

Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spell-check (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic printer support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support.

• Homepage http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

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An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.

However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd . The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features. The Hurd is free software produced by the GNU project.

• Homepage http://www.debian.org/

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This is made possible by a set of technological features in the Linux kernel, and by means of some other free software (notably by S.u.S.E. and RedHat) that they reused

they wanted to make it possible to everybody to look at what Linux can offer, and to make it possible for software publishers wanting to show their Linux-based software to distribute a no hassle hands-off demo CD.

But this kind of CD makes also a wonderful Linux-to-go solution: you might carry your favourite desktop configuration in your pocket, sit in front of a non-Linux box, boot from the CD and be in front of your preferred environment in minutes.

• Homepage     http://www.demolinux.org/

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The goal of Devil-Linux is to have a small, customizable and secure (what is secure in the internet?) Linux.

The future of Devil-Linux will go far beyond an ordinary Router, we will provide a lot of other services, but the Distribution will still be easy and fast to maintain.

• Homepage  http://www.devil-linux.org/

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You don't need to install anything, you don't even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you'll get back true love ;^)
dynebolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!

dynebolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and peripherals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, USB devices and more. The basic requisites you need are just a i586 PC with 64Mb of RAM and a IDE CD-ROM.

dynebolic is free software
released under the GNU General Public License.

• Homepage   http://www.dynebolic.org/

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Eagle Linux is a floppy/CD based distribution that boots and operates completely independent of permanent storage media. The unique feature of Eagle Linux is its main form of distribution - a complete how-to manual which walks the user through each step in creating a fully functional bootable Linux CD. Eagle Linux can be downloaded in ISO format as well (as of version 2.2), but its popularity stems from the freely available documentation. A Linux user who downloads Eagle Linux documentation can easily create a bootable CD in an afternoon.

Eagle Linux is a core Linux distribution, meaning the documentation or ISO image provide a complete Linux base system. The modular construction of Eagle Linux allows users to easily include desired applications such as compilers, network tools, client/server functionality, etc.

With version 2.0 came the need to forgo the floppy capability, as the El Torito standard was found to be too restrictive. In its place is ISOLinux, an offset of Syslinux, which allows a boot image of virtually any size.

• Homepage      http://eaglelinux.w32.net

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The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free 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 the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

Fedora Core 1 is now available

• Homepage     http://fedora.redhat.com/

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FreeLoader is a bootable Linux CD. It's for people wondering what Linux is like. FreeLoader lets you try Linux without making any hard drive changes. No knowledge of Linux is required.

• Homepage     http://freeloaderlinux.sourceforge.net/

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Also provides necessary tools for live forensics/analysis on win32, sparc solaris and x86 Linux hosts just by mounting the cdrom and using trusted static binaries available in /statbins.

• Homepage http://biatchux.dmzs.com/

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Until now - and probably for a while in most heads - the GNU/Linux system at school has been perceived as a good replacement of other proprietary servers. However the server is probably the least important things in term of freedom in a school network. It doesn't allow a teacher to share a workstation software with students. Supporting GNU/Linux in the workstation side can grant higher freedom and liberty between users in a school.. Therefore, OFFSET has setup Freeduc , a tool to help to list, to evaluate and to package only free - non GPL exclusive - edu soft.

• Homepage  http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html

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So, GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need of hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is a free software, created thanks to many open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.

All the programs used by the GeeXboX are protected by their respective license.
They all are free software and most of them are covered by the GNU General Public Licence.
The GeeXboX itself, meaning all the scripts which are used in the building process, are covered by the GNU General Public Licence.

• Homepage http://www.geexbox.org/

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Gentoo Linux in a paragraph

Gentoo Linux, a special flavour of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a meta distribution.

What is Portage? 

Portage is the heart of Gentoo Linux, and performs many key functions. For one, Portage is the software distribution system for Gentoo Linux. To get the latest software for Gentoo Linux, you type one command: emerge sync . This command tells Portage to update your local "Portage tree" over the Internet. Your local Portage tree contains a complete collection of scripts that can be used by Portage to create and install the latest Gentoo packages.

• Homepage  http://www.gentoo.org/

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It's still in the development faze they are planning to create a GUI installation tool to make installing GNU/Linux with a GNOME desktop as easy as possible.

• Homepage http://www.gnoppix.org/

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Hakin9 is a magazine about security. The magazine is of Polish origin, but now it is distributed in thirteen European countries (in four language versions - Polish, German, French and Spanish). Since January 2004 we also start the English and Italian versions.
Haking deals with the problems of systems' security from the point of view of both the person providing the security and the person violating it.
Haking is read by people responsible for computer systems security, programmers, security specialists, professional admins, as well as people taking up security issues in their free time. Haking cooperates with the best specialists who have had a lot of experience in the field of operating systems security.

• Homepage  http://www.haking.pl/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live

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Jusix Is a Polish distribution of Linux. The homepage is of curse in Polish to.

• Homepage  http://jusix.rulez.pl/

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Developed by Klaus Knopper in Germany, it is safe to say that Debian-based Knoppix has raised the bar of standards to a new level, especially with its automatic hardware detection that puts many well established commercial Linux distributions to shame. Its hands-free booting, enormous selection of software, its on-the-fly decompression technique and the ability to install it on a hard disk have turned Knoppix into an indispensable tool. It can be used as a rescue disk, a tool to demonstrate Linux to those who haven't seen it or a tool to test a new computer before purchase. It can even be used as a full-blown Linux distribution for every-day tasks.

• Homepage http://www.knoppix.org/ (German)

• http://www.knoppix.com/ (English)    

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Kurumin Linux is Brazilian project based on Knoppix. The program is developed by Carlos E. Morimoto, The Brazilian Kurumin Linux seems to have gained many followers in a very short time. It differs from Knoppix in that many packages have been removed, so the size of the full ISO image is much smaller about 200 MB. The Kurumin Linux web site is in the Brazilian Portuguese language with plenty of good documentation, active user forums and download mirrors.

The CD boots into a graphical environment with Brazilian Portuguese as the default language and KDE as the default desktop.

• Homepage http://www.kurumin.org/

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LindowsOS TM is a new, affordable, fun, and exciting operating system like Microsoft Windows XP or Apple Mac OSX. LindowsOS has the ease of use that you have come to expect from an operating system, plus the speed and stability you have always desired. By making the switch to LindowsOS you'll have the power, stability and cost-savings of Linux with the ease of a windows environment. LindowsOS is perfect for you if you use your computer for the Internet, school or office work, video, music, games, or anything else!

• Homepage http://www.lindows.com/

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• Homepage http://linuxconsole.free.fr/

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LNX-BBC can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, and perform many other tasks that we haven't yet imag ined.

• Homepage http://www.lnx-bbc.org/

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Lycoris is located in Redmond, Washington. The privately held company 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 the award winning Desktop/LX OS, a simplified Linux desktop operating system in tandem with a growing software product line including the Productivity Pak Office Suite and GamePack Gaming Suite .

• Homepage http://www.lycoris.com/

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Mandrake Linux 9.2, which is based on Linux 2.4.22 (and ready for Linux 2.6.0) offers the most advanced Linux features currently available -- in terms of technology as well as the most up-to-date software. In addition to recently introduced technologies such as NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, "Zeroconf" network support and expanded WiFi support, Mandrake 9.2 offers countless improvements, such as a refined "MandrakeGalaxy" theme, improved configuration tools and of course KDE 3.1.3, GNOME 2.4.0, OpenOffice 1.1 and Mozilla 1.4.

• Homepage http://www.linuxmandrake.com/,

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Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-CD support (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works.. no harddisk-installation necessary, doesn't touch your data). Also, installing Morphix on a harddisk is a breeze, if you want to. Just click on the icon on the desktop, or choose the installer from the morphix/babytux submenu. Morphix should still be considered experimental in nature. No guarantees are given, use Morphix at your own risk!

Currently, ISO's with XFCE4, Gnome2.4, KDE3.1 and a game ISO are available for download. Morphix is an Open Source/Free software project, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix.

• Homepage http://morphix.sourceforge.net/

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• eMoviX : a micro Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want, so that the CD will be able to boot and automatically play all of its own files.
  eMoviX CDs can now be written with K3b (Linux), MoviXMaker (Linux) & MoviXISOCreator (Windows).
• MoviX : a mini CD Linux distro able to boot directly from CD and load in RAM a console interface to MPlayer. From the interface you can easily play DVDs, VCDs, audio/video files Audio CD, internet radios, TV, you name it!
  MoviX is now able to boot also from HD, USB pen, CF card and from the net.
• MoviX 2 :same as MoviX, but it makes use of X and makes use of the nice MPlayer GUI.
  MoviX 2 is now able to boot also from HD, USB pen, CF card and from the net.

• Homepage http://movix.sourceforge.net/

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First, in lowering the barrier to install the software.

Today, the CD might offered to an experimented person, a fast way to have GNU/Linux on a PC.

The Oralux project must go further.

• Homepage http://oralux.org/

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PCLinuxOS is a community based non-profit distribution initially based on Mandrake Linux. Just think of it as Mandrake Linux enhanced by Texstar on a single bootable live CD with 1.5GB of desktop applications and the ability to install right to your hard drive with everything ready to work out of the box. NVIDIA drivers, Flash, Java, urpmi setup, and of course all the cool application updates by Texstar. And if we get all the bugs out of the mklivecd program then YOU can make your own Mandrake-style bootable CD as well.

• Homepage http://www.pclinuxonline.com/

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• Forensics/Data Recovery
• System/Network Analysis and Security Scanning
• Temporary Network Device/Server
• IDS / NIDS System
• Network Status Report Creation

• Homepage http://www.projectplanb.org/

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What began as a better way to build software--openness, transparency, collaboration--soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution continues. Today Red Hat is the world's most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology. And that technology is pervasive, running systems of all sizes, and, more than ever, powering mission-critical computing in the enterprise.

For many, the name Red Hat epitomizes Linux, as it is probably the best-known Linux company in the world. Founded in 1995 by Bob Young and Marc Ewing, Red Hat, Inc. has only recently started showing signs of profitability, due to services and its Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. However, Red Hat Linux 9 was the last version in the Red Hat Linux product line, which was replaced by Fedora Core in late 2003. While Fedora is officially sponsored by Red Hat, it is developed with community participation, has a short life-span and serves mainly as a testing base for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

What is so special about Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core? It is a curious mix of conservative and leading-edge packages put together on top of many knowledge-intensive utilities developed in-house. The packages are not the most up-to-date; once a new beta version is announced, the package versions are frozen, except for security updates. The result is a well-tested and stable distribution, the beta program and bug reporting facility are open to the public and there are several mailing lists. Red Hat Linux has become a dominant Linux distribution on servers around the world.

• Homepage http://www.redhat.com/

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RPM Live Linux CD 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, DHCP, named, 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.

• Homepage http://nwst.de/livelinuxcd/

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The Sentry Firewall CD is a complete Linux system that runs off of an initial ramdisk, much like a floppy-based system, and a CD. The default kernel is a current 2.4.x series kernel with various Netfilter patches applied. An OpenWall -patched current 2.2.x kernel is also available on the CD.

• Homepage http://www.sentryfirewall.com/

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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.

The Slackware Philosophy

Since its first release in April of 1993, the Slackware Linux Project has aimed at producing the most "UNIX-like" Linux distribution out there. Slackware complies with the published Linux standards, such as the Linux File System Standard. We have always considered simplicity and stability paramount, and as a result Slackware has become one of the most popular, stable, and friendly distributions available.

Slackware Overview

Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system.i It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.2 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. A full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server, a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. Slackware Linux can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon).

• Homepage http://www.slackware.com

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Slackware-Live CD is a bootable CD containing Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from CDROM without installing. The live CD described here is based on Slackware GNU Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO. There are also available all scripts and source codes, which can be used to build your own live CD.

When your computer boots from Live CD, at first Linux kernel image (vmlinuz) is loaded. Then, 13 MB virtual disk (ramdisk) is created in computer's RAM. Rootdisk image (initrd.gz) is unpacked into it and then mounted as a root file system.

• Homepage http://www.slackware-live.org/

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SULIX is a Hungarian edition of the well-known Knoppix CD-based distribution. Also the website is in Hungarian. Its main features are usability, Hungarian language support, 'freshness' in terms of software updates and educational purpose. It can be used in schools, for IT education or even as a Linux 'migration tool', because it requires no installation and further configuration. It can be handed out to students for individual practicing at home. The name 'SULIX' comes from Hungarian: 'suli' means 'school' in child's language. SULIX is developed by a very small group of teachers in Hungary. While the distribution's main language is Hungarian, speakers of other languages can also use it. Development of a next release, which will include up-to-date versions of KDE, XFree86, etc. is in progress.

• Homepage http://sulix.homelinux.net/

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Established in 1992, SUSE LINUX is one of the world's leading providers of Linux software and services. With the largest dedicated Linux research and development team, SUSE delivers enterprise-ready software and services that harness the innovation, speed-to-market and independence of the open source community.

Apart from operating systems and application software for private customers, SUSE LINUX AG offers software solutions and turnkey systems for the deployment of Linux in the enterprise. SUSE supports its business customers with an extensive range of qualified consulting, training, and support services. SUSE makes its unique project and support expertise publicly available by means of the world's largest online Linux knowledgebase. Currently, SUSE LINUX AG hosts about 380 employees at six national and four international locations.

SUSE is another company with desktop focus, although a range of less visible enterprise class products are also available. The distribution has received positive reviews for its installer and YaST configuration tools, developed by SUSE's own developers. The documentation, which comes with the boxed product, has repeatedly been labelled as the most complete, thorough and usable by far. The distribution has achieved substantial market share in Europe and North America, but it is not marketed in Asia and other parts of the world. SUSE was acquired by Novell in late 2003.

• Homepage http://www.suse.com/

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TRX Live Firewall is a Turkish project created by Gürkan Sengün. TRX produces a Debian GNU/Linux-based desktop router and firewall package. This package is bootable directly from CD-ROM, so hard disk installation is not necessary. TRX is designed to work completely off the CD-ROM, with configuration data stored on a floppy disk, harddisk partition or, in future versions, on a USB storage device.

Recently the homepage is lined true Gnoppix Homepage

• Homepage http://www.trxlinux.org/

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Xandros delivers a desktop solution that combines the best of open source technologies with a corporate attention to completeness, usability, and support. It is based on v3.0 of the award-winning Corel LINUX OS and represents the next step in the evolution of the desktop. Furthermore, Xandros will be unveiling server and enterprise management solutions in 2003 to provide an end-to-end solution.

Founded in May 2001, Xandros is the leading developer of a cost-effective, installation-friendly, complete Linux-based operating environment offering Windows compatibility and unparalleled technical support. Xandros is specifically designed to meet the computing needs of both professional and consumer users alike. Based on the former Corel Linux OS, Xandros marks the first true collaboration of ease of use philosophy and ground breaking technology aimed at the creation of the first true "Complete Linux Desktop Solution".

Version 2 will become available in December

• Homepage http://www.xandros.com/

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