Software Map

The Project Akita OS (Orange OS) was started with the intent to design a lightweight operating system. It contains a small kernel designed for those interested in the low-level, practical aspects of building an x86 system. The host development environment is designed to work around the Bochs x86 emulator, so that you can easily test changes to the kernel.

Leeenux is a complete netbook Linux distribution made for the Asus eee 701G with 2GB and 4GB SSD, but other netbooks can run it as well. Its purpose is to make this popular netbook useful once again. Its intention is to provide a fast and reliable experience out of the box with as much usability as a 7" screen can give. It is based on Ubuntu minimal, and it contains only free software. It has the UNR menu and uses light applications and GNOME. There are no Mono or Qt applications.

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. It also includes openMosix
auto-discovery, cluster management tools, and an
optional X environment.

System-Down::Rescue is a free downloadable live
distribution. It is designed to recover damaged
file-systems, copying the data around other
physical discs or networks, or burning them on a
CD-ROM, using cdrecord. It features a working
hardware detection system.

Privatix Live-System is a portable encrypted operating system designed to be run directly from a USB flash drive or an external hard drive. This allows the user to safely edit and carry along sensitive data for encrypted communication and anonymous Web surfing. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Pulse 2 is a tool that simplifies application deployment, inventory, and maintenance of an IT network. It has been designed to handle anywhere from dozens of computers on a single site to 100 000+ computers spread on many sites. It is an easy-to-use, safe, and flexible solution that lets you create and deploy hard disk images of your computers, deploy new software and security updates on all your IT assets, perform software and hardware inventory, and perform remote diagnostics and remote management.

BLAG is a single-CD Linux distribution that has a suite of graphics, Internet, audio, video, office, and peer-to-peer file sharing applications. It is based on Fedora Core, Dag, Freshrpms, etc. It is up-to-date with all Fedora errata updates at the time of release, and uses apt/synaptic for easy upgrades and installation of new applications.

rpm livelinuxcd is a set of ISO images and a
toolkit. The first CD image is a basic live CD
with X/KDE, GNOME, twm, VPN/DSL, kickstart, and
other tools based on RPM packages. The second CD
image includes a server with ssh, Apache, PHP,
MySQL, Samba, Squid, and more, but without X11.
The toolkit consists of shell scripts to create
new CDs from RPM package lists or comps files.

Rocks is a complete "cluster on a CD" solution for
x86 and IA64 Red Hat Linux COTS clusters. Building
a Rocks cluster does not require any experience in
clustering, yet a cluster architect will find a
flexible and programmatic way to redesign the
entire software stack just below the surface
(appropriately hidden from the majority of users).
Although Rocks includes the tools expected from
any clustering software stack (PBS, Maui, GM
support, Ganglia, etc), it is unique in its
simplicity of installation.

Hardened Linux is a hardened and minimalized Linux distribution based on Slackware. It includes a grsecurity/PaX patched
kernel, stack smashing protected and hardened
packages, additional security scripts, and
automatically enabled host intrusion detection.

TurnKey MySQL is an extremely easy way to get up and running with MySQL in just a couple of minutes. It's a pre-integrated turnkey server based on Ubuntu that is packaged as a Live CD image capable of supporting installations on both physical and virtual machines, including VMWare, Xen, VirtualBox, and KVM. It features a small footprint, automatic security updates, a rich Web administration interface, and an easy to use configuration and installation console. It includes a phpMyAdmin database management front-end.

XPontus is a Java-based XML editor designed for
text editing. It aims to provide a free
alternative to commercial XML editors. It has been
reported to run correctly on Linux, Windows, Mac
OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. There are many
installers for platform convenience.

MediaCore is a media-focused CMS. It features rich video and audio support, YouTube/Vimeo integration, HTML5 video, support for the iPad/iPhone, podcasting, iTunes RSS generation, user-submitted content, an embedded media player, and searching. It is highly customizable. There is both a front-end for users and a back-end for administrators. Users can browse videos or podcasts. Users can search for videos by topics and tags. Users can upload videos to the platform; administrators can moderate newly uploaded videos. Administrators can add video, audio, or podcasts. A comment platform for moderation is built-in. Podcasts can be video or audio. It also has automatic iTunes feed generation, automatic RSS feed generation, and feedburner support.