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June 15 Distro of the Day: Damn Small Linux 3.3
Today's Distro of the Day is Damn Small Linux 3.3. Damn Small Linux (DSL) was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. It was at first just a personal tool/toy. But over time Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with hundreds of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device.
June 14 Distro of the Day: NexentaOS
Today's Distro of the Day is NexentaOS Alpha 7. NexentaOS is a little bit different in that it is based on Sun's OpenSolaris kernel rather than the Linux kernel. The Solaris kernel is well-known to be very solid and sophisticated. NexentaOS includes many Debian/Ubuntu packages and is as easy to use as Ubuntu.
June 13 Distro of the Day: Austrumi 1.5.0
Today's Distro of the Day is Austrumi Linux 1.5.0. Austrumi Linux is a multilingual distribution out of Latvia that is only 70MiB but is packed with many great applications, including Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, Abiword, MPlayer, homebank, numerous games and much more. You should be able to download the entire LivePC in less than ten minutes on a broadband connection.
June 12 Distro of the Day: EDU-Nix 3.1
Today's Distro of the Day is EDU-Nix 3.1. EDU-Nix is a Linux distribution that aims to provide public schools with Open Source alternatives to expensive proprietary software products. It attempts to bridge the digital divide by allowing all students access to the same software they use at school.
Com! magazine uses moka5 LivePCs to implement their "best ideas" for virtual machines.
The July issue of German computing magazine, "com!" has an article about "the five best ideas for virtual computers." In it, they recommend using moka5 LivePCs as the method for making any virtual machine mobile on USB sticks or other mobile memory. In their article they build a Windows XP virtual machine and a Linux-based virtual machine which runs a webserver. Then they import those virtual machines into the moka5 LivePC Engine to make LivePCs which can be carried on mobile memory.
June 11 Distro of the Day: Dreamlinux 2.2MM
Today's Distro of the Day is Dreamlinux 2.2MM. Dreamlinux is a Brazilian distribution based on Debian, Knoppix and Morphix. (Don't worry, along with Brazilian Portuguese, it supports English and a slew of other languages.) Dreamlinux uses the zippy XFCE window manager and has taken quite a few cues from Mac OS X, from the application panel at the bottom of the screen to the round button style.
June 10 Distro of the Day: OO2Go+
Today's Distro of the Day is OO2Go+, which stands for OpenOffice on the Go. This also includes the Evolution email client, in case you aren't a fan of webmail.
Take your web browser, instant messenger, and office suite along with you anywhere. This customized extension of the Virtual Gentoo 2006.1 LivePC allows to have the tools you need to communicate where ever you are (and whoever's DeadPC you are using).
June 9 Distro of the Day: Pocket Democracy
Today's Distro of the Day is Pocket Democracy. Pocket Democracy contains the Democracy Player, a free player that allows you to subscribe to video RSS "channels" and automatically download new content using peer-to-peer technology. All your downloaded video files are stored in the shared documents folder for easy access.
June 8 Distro of the Day: BackTrack 2
Today's Distro of the Day is BackTrack 2. BackTrack is a highly rated Linux distribution focused on penetration testing. BackTrack consists of more than 300 different up-to-date tools, all preconfigured and optimized to be used by security penetration testers.
New Beta Release: moka5 LivePC Engine can directly upload LivePCs to our library
Better yet, it is still FREE!
We would like to inform you that a new version of the moka5 LivePC Engine has been released. In this release, we've made LivePC creation and sharing a lot easier. With our new LivePC Publisher, you can create and customize your own computing environment in just a few simple steps. Click the create button, install your OS and applications in the LivePC and you will have your own LivePC today.
