Peppermint OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to be lightning fast and easy on system resources.

Peppermint OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to be lightning fast and easy on system resources.

By employing Mozilla's Prism technology Peppermint integrates seamlessly with Cloud and web-based applications.

The distribution's other features include automatic updates, easy step-by-step installation, sleek and user-friendly interface, and increased mobility by integrating directly with Cloud-based applications.

Don't get me wrong here though, Peppermint OS is an interesting idea and one takes advantage of the current hot trends in computing. Other have kinda/sorta tried this route before (remember gOS?) and it's certainly a good idea. Just be aware that you don't necessarily have to switch distro's to get the benefits of a 'cloud OS' though, with a few tweaks you may be able to leverage what you're already using.

Peppermint One.

Default Cloud Applications:

Note: The default Cloud Applications are simply included in Peppermint One as an example of the flexibility of Mozilla’s Prism technology as opposed to locally installed applications. These defaults can easily be removed and added again later as the user sees fit. There is an article on removal in the FAQ as well as adding them in the Quickstart Guide
Editor by Pixlr [Image Editor], Facebook, Hulu, Last.FM, Pandora, Seesmic Web, The Cloud Player, YouTube, eBuddy, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Reader

Default Installed Applications:

Firefox Web Browser, Drop-Box, Exaile [Music Management & Player], Prism, X-Chat [IRC Client], Transmission [Bit Torrent Client]


Peppermint Ice.

Default Cloud Applications:
Note: The default Cloud Applications are simply included in Peppermint Ice as an example of the flexibility of the Peppermint Ice SSB as opposed to locally installed applications [see "What is Ice" below]. These defaults can easily be removed and added again later as the user sees fit.
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Default Installed Applications:

Chromium Web Browser, Drop-Box, Xnoise [Music Management & Player], Ice, X-Chat [IRC Client], Transmission [Bit Torrent Client]


Updates:

Kendall Weaver has announced the release of Peppermint OS Two, a lightweight, Lubuntu-based distribution featuring the Openbox window manager: "It is our distinct honor to announce the release of the second major iteration of Peppermint OS. Peppermint Two is now available either for free download or via purchasable live CD. This edition is based upon Lubuntu 11.04 and includes a number of new features. Also this marks the first time Peppermint has been available for the 64-bit architecture. I'll take a moment to cover some of the new features present in this release: we're now using Chromium as the default web browser in our main release; the Ice SSB application has added functionality for removing SSBs as well as creating them; we've added some additional example SSBs to the default install from pixlr...."

Read the remainder of the release announcement for further details.

Download (MD5): Peppermint-Two-i386-06052011.iso (442MB), Peppermint-Two-amd64-06052011.iso (479MB).

Recent releases:

 • 2011-06-10: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Two
 • 2011-03-06: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Ice-10012010
 • 2011-01-05: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS One-01042011
 • 2010-10-04: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Ice-10012010
 • 2010-08-09: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS One-08042010
 • 2010-07-20: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Ice-07142010


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The Endian Firewall is an open source Linux distribution that specializes on Routing/Firewalling and Unified Threat Management

Endian Firewall is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance that protects networks and improves connectivity.

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Endian Firewall is 100% open source and includes a wide variety of features, such as stateful inspection firewall, HTTP/FTP anti-virus, content filter, POP3/SMTP anti-virus, anti-phishing and anti-spam tools, true SSL/TLS VPN, IDS, and other features.

Recent releases;

• 2010-05-27: Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.4
• 2009-10-27: Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.3
• 2009-09-18: Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.3 RC1
• 2008-07-26: Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 RC2
• 2008-05-14: Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 RC1
• 2008-04-23: Development Release: Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 4

Endian Firewall 2.4, a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls and gateways based on CentOS, has been released: "Endian Firewall (EFW) Community version 2.4 is now available. This release introduces new features and lots of bug fixes that make EFW 2.4 a significant improvement in the development of the Endian product family." Features: "If you are using EFW 2.4 and you wish to switch to Endian UTM 2.4, you can now do so by simply pushing a button.

The process is completely managed by EFW, ensuring you a safe and effective upgrade. Updating your EFW 2.3 does not require to install a new system from scratch any more. Instead, you can update single packages using our dedicated repository. With the new version of the kernel the number of supported hardware devices - most of all network interface cards - increases significantly."

Here is the full release announcement.

Download: EFW-COMMUNITY-2.4.iso (128MB, MD5).

Version 2.4 contains the following packages:

* Firewall (both directions)
* Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway with OpenVPN or IPsec
* Web Antivirus
* Web Antispam
* E-Mail Antivirus
* E-Mail Antispam
* Transparent HTTP-Proxy
* Content Filter
* Hotspot/Wireless Security
* SIP VoIP Support
* Network Address Translation
* Multi IP address (aliases)
* HTTPS web interface
* Connection statistics
* Log of networking traffic
* Forwarding of logs to an external server
* DHCP-Server
* NTP-Server
* Intrusion Detection System
* ADSL-Modem Support
* Updates via a single command

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Caixa Mágica is a Portuguese Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux.

Caixa Mágica is a Portuguese Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux and maintained by Caixa Mágica Software.

Its name translated to English is Magic Box.

It uses the RPM Package Manager. There are two editions: Desktop and Server.

This project was created in 2000 by Paulo Trezentos and Daniel Neves at ADETTI, a Portuguese research centre.

In 2004 there was a need to restructure the project because of the growth of the team and new challenges faced, so a spin-off of ADETTI was created, designated by "Caixa Mágica Software".

Updates: (via Distrowatch)

Linux Caixa Mágica 16, a new stable version of the Portuguese desktop Linux distribution, has been released. This is the project's first version based on Ubuntu (previous releases were based on openSUSE and later on Mandriva) and it comes in separate live media with GNOME and KDE desktops. Other new features and applications of the release include Firefox 4.0.1, LibreOffice 3.3.2, Caixa Mágica software centre, Shotwell photo management program, Banshee media player, automatic detection of proprietary firmware, new package management formant and system, and simplified system installer.

Read the release announcement (in Portuguese) for further information and links to documentation files.

Download: caixamagica-16-desktop-i386-gnome-dvd.iso (1,310MB, MD5), caixamagica-16-desktop-i386-kde-dvd.isoMD5), caixamagica-16-desktop-amd64-gnome-dvd.iso (1,448MB, MD5), caixamagica-16-desktop-amd64-kde-dvd.iso (1,628MB, MD5). (1,509MB,

Recent releases:

 • 2011-06-03: Distribution Release: Linux Caixa Mágica 16
 • 2011-05-12: Development Releases: Linux Caixa Mágica 16 Beta
 • 2010-05-26: Development Release: Linux Caixa Mágica 15 Beta
 • 2009-06-03: Distribution Release: Linux Caixa Mágica 14
 • 2009-04-24: Development Release: Linux Caixa Mágica 14 RC1
 • 2008-02-21: Distribution Release: Linux Caixa Mágica 12

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Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software.

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost.

It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive.

With Clonezilla, one can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

'Clonezilla Live' enables a user to clone a single computer's storage media, or a single partition on the media, to a separate medium device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data.


The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, a SSH server, Samba Server or a NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.
The Clonezilla application can be run from a USB-flash-drive, a CD-ROM, or a DVD-ROM. Clonezilla requires no modification to the computer; the software runs in its own booted environment.

Recent releases:

 • 2011-05-17: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.8-42
 • 2011-03-29: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.8-23
 • 2011-01-18: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-59
 • 2010-11-09: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-40
 • 2010-09-27: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.6-24
 • 2010-07-27: Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35

Updates (via Distrowatch):

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.8-42, an updated version of the specialist Debian-based live CD designed for disk cloning tasks: "Stable Clonezilla Live 1.2.8-42 has been released. This release of Clonezilla Live includes major enhancements, changes and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'sid' repository (as of 2011-05-13); Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.38; syslinux was updated to 4.04; initrd was compressed with XZ, and this makes Clonezilla Live ISO image smaller by 3 MB; the pre-run and post-run commands were moved to the login shell instead of init so now it can be interactive; the GRUB 2 boot loader for EFI was added, this is a testing function for booting an Apple machine from an USB device with GPT partition...."

Read the full release announcement for a full changelog and a list of bug fixes.

Download (MD5): clonezilla-live-1.2.8-42-i686.iso (133MB), clonezilla-live-1.2.8-42-amd64.iso (139MB) 

Features of Clonezilla.

* Free (GPL) Software.
* Filesystem supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (5) VMFS of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, and FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
* LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
* Grub (version 1 and version 2) is supported.
* Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
* Based on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition. However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
* By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.

Limitations.

* The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one.
* Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet.
* Online imaging/cloning is not implemented yet. The partition to be imaged or cloned has to be unmounted.
* Software RAID/fake RAID is not supported by default. It's can be done manually only.
* Due to the image format limitation, the image can not be explored or mounted. You can _NOT_ recovery single file from the image. However, you still have workaround to make it, read this.

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FuguIta is an OpenBSD live CD featuring portable workplace, low hardware requirements, additional software, and partial support for Japanese.

FuguIta is an OpenBSD live CD featuring portable workplace, low hardware requirements, additional software, and partial support for Japanese.

This live CD is intended to be as close as possible to the default OpenBSD when installed on a hard disk.

FuguIta is the LiveCD/LiveUSB which was built from OpenBSD, which has following features;

Similar to HDD installation
This Live CD was intended to be similar to HDD installation as much as possible.
After CD booting, you can login to the environment like the one which was just installed on HDD.
In this environment, many ordinary files have replaced to symbolic links. So you can replace or modify them by yourself.
Portable workplace
You can save your own environment into Floppy Disk and/or USB flashdrive. Then you will be able to retrieve it at next boot time.
Low hardware requirements
Unless you will use X, this LiveCD requires 40MB of memory to run.
Additional Softwares
Some softwares were added from ports or building from other source packages. See following software list.
Useful for Japanese users
Kernel and Time Zone are set to JST. And some softwares are configured to be able to use Japanese.
Following stable version
We're trying to track the OpenBSD-stable version, and to apply all errata patches.

Software List.

Base System
OpenBSD 4.7	The Operating System
Network
fetchmail	POP/IMAP email client
procmail	email proccessing filter
w3m	text-based web browser (images, tables, frames are OK)
cURL	get files from FTP, Gopher, HTTP or HTTPS servers
rdesktop	remote desktop client for MS Windows RDP
rsync	remote file synchronization tool
Mew	email user agent (works on Emacs)
Riece	IRC client (works on Emacs)
Emacs-w3m	web browser which works on Emacs
Transmission	BitTorrent client
youtube-dl	YouTube downloader
DeleGate	multi-purpose proxy server
Media
xv	image viewer
mplayer	media player
cdparanoia	CDDA reading utility
lame	lame ain't an MP3 encoder
Other tools
bash	Bourne again shell
bzip2, zip/unzip	file compression/expand tools
screen	text screen manager
ttyrec	tty console recorder/player
IceWM	Window Manager
ROX-Filer	File Manager
Ruby	object oriented script language
Python	object oriented script language
Gauche	Scheme language interpreter
Tcl/Tk	Tool Command Language / Tool Kit
Emacs 23	text editor
QEMU	multi system emulator
For Japanese
kterm	Kanji terminal emulator
jless	Japanized file pager
nkf	character code converter
freefonts, ja-fonts-funet, ja-fonts-gnu	Japanese fonts
Navi2ch, Mona font	2ch BBS browser
Migemo	Japanse direct incremental search

Download.

FuguIta supports two boot medium. One is CD-R/CD-RW, the other is USB flash drive. You must take different ways to create Such two medium.

Followings illustrate the each case of create CD or USB flash media.

• Download Source
  The mirror site are more recommended because of uplink bandwidth.
  • mirror: http://livecd-mirror.ebug.jp/LiveCD/ (100Mbps)
  • master: http://kaw.ath.cx/dl/pub/OpenBSD/LiveCD/ (8Mbps)

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