Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB hard disk or from network with PXE.

Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB hard disk or from network with PXE. It is designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more.

Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB harddisk or from network with PXE. It's designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more.


System requirements.

    * Intel i486 compatible processor
    * 64MB ram

Updates (via Distrowatch):

Elmar Hanlhofer has announced the release of Plop Linux 4.1.2, a small utility live CD (now also with Fluxbox and GNOME options) designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems and automate common tasks. From the changelog: "Plop Linux 4.1.2 released. Updated Linux kernel 3.0.1, Nmap 5.51, NTFS-3G 2011.4.12AR.4, OpenSSH 5.8p2, OpenSSL 1.0.0d, Samba 3.5.9, Squashfs 4.2, udev 171, Plop boot manager 5.0.13; setupavg - environment variables set automatically when the user logs in; fpupdate - alias is set to avoid 'Out of memory problem' when running without full path; default kernel compiled for i586 with PAE enabled additional kernel with i486 settings compiled; possible resolv.conf conflict during network boot fixed."

Links to download the larger live CD with GNOME/Fluxbox: ploplinux-4.1.2-X.iso (673MB, MD5), ploplinux-4.1.2-x64-X.iso (673MB, MD5).

Recent releases:

 • 2011-08-10: Distribution Release: Plop Linux 4.1.2


Features.

    * booting from CD/DVD, USB and network
    * Linux kernel 3.0.1
    * 32bit and 64bit versions
    * sshfs
    * NTFS read/write with ntfs-3g (except compressed and encrypted files)
    * add your own scripts
    * IDE, SATA, SCSI, and RAID support
    * Partimage to save or restore partitions
    * pimgrestore
    * proftpd server
    * ssh connections
    * samba connection
    * nfs connection
    * btrfs
    * vmstat
    * systat package
    * fsarchiver
    * mbuffer, udpcast, multicast
    * partclone
    * memtest
    * cryptsetup luks
    * tftp (tftpd)
    * xinetd
    * dhcp server
    * testdisk, photorec
    * Plop Boot Manager
    * nmap
    * perl
    * lilo, grub, grub2
    * chntpw, reged
    * chkrootkit
    * bluetooth
    * wake on lan (wol, ether-wake, ethtool)
    * lot of network tools
    * Linux F-PROT Antivirus from F-PROT.
      This antivirus is free for personal users.
    * Linux AVAST Antivirus from avast! Linux Home Edition.
      This antivirus is free for non-commercial use. You need a licence key to use it.
    * Network connections to windows network shares, ftp servers, web servers or ssh connections.
    * wine, mono, vnc, gparted, firefox, ...

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