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Ark Linux
"Ark Linux is a Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use, primarily for people without prior Linux experience."
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Astaro Security Linux
"Combines a firewall via stateful packet inspection filters, virtual private network (VPN - IPSec/PPTP) support, anti-virus protection, content filtering, application-level proxies, High Availability, load balancing, QoS (Quality of service) and user authentication. Automated virus-signature updates and remote administration are performed securely via the Web. Includes the hardened Linux OS."
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Balance
"A simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. Its behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax."
Open source.
Platform(s): Linux, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, Cygwin, OS X.
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Beginner's Guide to Linux Distros
"There are two major trunks for most Linux distros. There are plenty of ground up distros, but most are derived either from RedHat using RPMs (RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager) or Debian using dpkg files. This file formats are used to install software on your computer. Currently, the biggest distros not derived from RedHat or Debian are Slackware and Gentoo which also have their own package management systems with various advantages/disadvantages. ..."
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Cooperative Linux
"Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software."
Platform(s): Windows.
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Damn Small Linux
"Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Why? Because having a working Linux desktop on a 50 mb bootable business card CD is just too cool not to do."
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ECT for Linux
"Enhanced Cluster Tools (ECT) for Linux is a set of additional tools for the enhancement of Cluster Systems Management (CSM), which assists an administrator in managing a whole set of Linux machines. CSM includes features such as parallel installation, hardware control, configuration file management, event monitoring, and more that help make it easier for an administrator to set up and maintain clusters. ECT provides additional features such as an xCAT-to-CSM transitional tool and scripts for easily collecting data from service processors. Many of the scripts in ECT are early versions of tools that will eventually be merged into CSM in future releases." From IBM alphaWorks.
Platform(s): Linux.
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EnGarde
"EnGarde is a secure distribution of Linux engineered from the ground up to provide organizations with the level of security required to create a complete corporate online presence."
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Rating: 9.57
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Fedora distribution
"The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc. The goal? Work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Public forum. Open processes. A proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products."
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Rating: 9.00
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Gentoo Linux
"Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution for x86, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha systems that's geared towards Linux power users. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, 'fake' (OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more."
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Linux InfiniBand Project
The Linux InfiniBand Project is a collection of sub-projects and activities all focused around the common goal of providing the operating system software components needed to support an InfiniBand fabric, specifically for the Linux operating system." Open source.
Platform(s): Linux.
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Linux Mobile System
"LMS is a full Linux system within a USB Flash Memory Drive. This system will be able to boot from any i386 based PC, so we can to run a lot of utilities: network diagnostic, disk diagnostic, etc."
Platform(s): i386.
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Linux-HA Project Web Site
"Provide a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) through a community development effort." Open source
Platform(s): Linux.
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Linux-iSCSI Project
"The Linux iSCSI driver acts as an iSCSI protocol initiator to transport SCSI requests and responses over an IP network between the client and an iSCSI-enabled target device such as a Cisco SN 5420 storage router."
Platform(s): Linux.
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openMosix
"openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive."
Platform(s): Linux.
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OpenWrt
"OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G. Instead of trying to cram every possible feature into one firmware, OpenWrt provides only a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages. For users this means the ability to custom tune features, removing unwanted packages to make room for other packages and for developers this means being able to focus on packages without having to test and release an entire firmware."
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Ramenfind
"The Institute for Security Technology Studies has developed a tool to detect and remove the Ramen Worm from infected Linux Servers."
Platform(s): Linux.
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Security-Enhanced Linux
A Linux distro from the National Security Agency: "This version of Linux has a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated into the major subsystems of the kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications."
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Sourceforge
A Web site for posting and tracking open source software projects, offering a plethora of Linux-friendly applications and software.
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Tinfoil Hat Linux
"Tinfoil hat is useful if: You're using a computer that could have a keystroke logger installed; You need to use your personal GPG keys at work, school or a web hosting facility where you don't trust or own the equipment;
If you maintain a PGP Certificate Authority or signing key and have to have a safe place to use the CA key;
If you simply don't want to risk putting a PGP key on a hard drive where someone else might have access to it;
The Illuminati are watching your computer, and you need to use morse code to blink out your PGP messages on the numlock key."
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Tripwire
"Tripwire is a tool that checks to see what has changed on your system. The program monitors key attributes of files that should not change, including binary signature, size, expected change of size, etc." Open source for Linux (commercial versions available for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows NT).
Platform(s): Linux.
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Rating: 8.50
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Ubuntu Linux
"Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit."
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Rating: 9.75
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UserLinux:
A Debian-based Linux distribution intended for enterprise servers and clients: "UserLinux is a streamlined distribution with one key application in mind for a given piece of functionality. One web browser, one word processor, one mail client, one web server. This reduces support overhead both for users and for maintaining security."
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Page updated on: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 16:14:09
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