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The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:

• Make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source platform.
• Provide an environment for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.
• Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

OpenSuse is covered in SourceLabs Self-support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

A GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of the popular Ubuntu distribution and makes it free.

WiiLi is a project to bring Linux to the Nintendo Wii.

Before WiiLi comes WiiLi Live, a Live CD that turns standard PCs into a media and gaming center designed around the Wii Remote. We’re developing on PCs right now, with hopes of porting WiiLi to the Wii later on.

Ebuntu is an Ubuntu derivative livecd that uses Enlightenment as an x window manager.

Xubuntu is a version of Ubuntu that uses XFCE instead of GNOME as a desktop environment. Typically this means you have a older/slower computer, or just want a very efficient desktop OS. Xubuntu can be run with just 1.5 Gigs of hard drive space and 64-128 MB of RAM.

It is similar to Kubuntu in that it is a derivative of Ubuntu for those who do not want to use GNOME.

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Xubuntu and Beryl

• installing beryl on Xubuntu

Local Area Security Linux is a security minded linux distribution that runs from a cd, or miniCd as the project aims to be small enough to fit in 180mb.

ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distribution that uses the OpenMosix kernel. It features an OpenMosix terminal server that uses PXE, DHCP, and tftp to boot Linux clients via the network.

VectorLinux is a small, fast, Slackware-based Linux distribution. It requires only 425M of disk space and 16M of RAM, and retains full functionality with a GUI desktop, full development environment, FTP server, sendmail, networking utilities, laptop support, and a full range of desktop and console applications.

LLGP is a Knoppix based distribution with many games. It contains deep changes the in Knoppix startup scripts.

SLAX is a 180 MB Linux liveCD. Version 5 and later has a Webconfig feature that allows you to save your SLAX configuration in a Web-based online repository and restore it on request.

Libranet is a linux-distribution based on Debian that is designed to be easy to configure.

Tal Libranet announced on June 2006 that he will not continue development on the Libranet project.

Fedora Core is a community linux-distribution from Redhat. Version 8 is the most recent release. Fedora 9 is expected in April, 2008.

Fedora Core is RPM based, using the yum package management system.

The design of Fedora Core is centered around creating a general purpose distro that is easy to use and up-to-date, the Fedora project typically releases every 6 months.

Fedora is developed by Redhat, and the distro derives from the original eponymous distribution that has since forked into two branches, the cutting edge community based Fedora Core and the enterprise focused Red Hat Enterprise License.

For a window manager, Fedora Core uses GNOME, but also includes KDE. Other notable packages include Mono and Eclipse.

Documentation: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Project Wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

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Freespire is a free community run version of the commercially oriented Linspire Debian-based linux distribution.

Originally, a 3rd party project called Freespire (later SquiggleOS) started a community build of the Linspire sources, which were not available for free binary download.

In response, Linspire started the official Freespire project, which is a community driven build with close ties to Linspire, much as Fedora-Core has close ties to its commercial counterpart RHEL.

There are two versions of Freespire planned, one release includes proprietary libraries licensed by Linspire such as WMA libraries, and the other release only includes open source components.

Linspire is a commercial Linux distribution and as such charges money for their releases. Parts of it are covered under the GPL but other parts including some code that Linspire has created is not covered under the GPL.

Linspire was once to be called Lindows, except Microsoft took exception to that. A project was started to distribute free binaries of Linspire called ‘Freespire’, however Linspire took exception to that, Freespire become known as SquiggleOS. SquiggleOS eventually shut down however as Linspire promises a community focused distribution also called Freespire.

Knoppix is a liveCD Linux distribution, featuring automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals.

Due to Knoppix’s excellent support for a wide array of hardware and Knoppix being one of the first livecd distributions, Knoppix has virtually become a byword for bootable cd and many derivative distributions have been established based on the work the Knoppix project has done.

Knoppix packages a wide variety of software, the contents of which depends on the version—the full DVD version packaged over 2500 projects. Knoppix, unlike some other linux distributions, packages some proprietary software in addition to free software packages.

Some of the notable packages that Knoppix packages are: KDE, XMMS, Firefox, OpenOffice, K3b, and the GIMP.

DeLi Linux stands for “Desktop Light” Linux. It is a Linux Distribution that uses only “lightweight” alternative software so that it can run on lightweight computers, a 386 with 8mb of RAM is all that is needed to run DeLi Linux.

For a window manager, DeLi Linux uses the lightweight window managers IceWM or Fluxbox. It includes Siag Office, Dillo web browser, and the mutt email client, all extremely lightweight alternatives to richer and heavier software such as OpenOffice.

DeLi Linux uses Slackware’s package management system, as the distribution originally based on Slackware.

Xandros Desktop is a Linux desktop linux distro that provides an easy to use operating GeekTime Linux, Xandros Business 3.0 A great new distro!

CentOS or Community ENTerprise Operating System is a community-based release of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), built from the sources of RHEL. The project was started due to the fact that RedHat does not release binaries for RHEL free of charge.

Thus CentOS aims for binary compatibility with RHEL, but all copyrights and trademarked RedHat content outside of the source code, such as trademarked terms or images, is replaced.

A guide for setting up CENTOS with a number of services, including email, LAMP, dns and ftp

To echo the package management system controlled by RedHat, CentOS instead uses a mirror network to obtain release or updates through the same package management used by RHEL: yum and up2date.

Also See

• Whitebox-Linux another RHEL derivative.