Free winutilities 6.21 software for linux

GParted LiveCD is a linux distribution based on Gnome Partition Editor.
It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partitiontables while several (optional) filesystemtools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.
These optional packages will be detected at runtime and dont require a rebuild of GParted.
GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm as Graphical Toolkit. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible. Thats why i try to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
GParted comes under the terms of the General Public License.
Enhancements:
New package :
- bc (text-calculator)
Packages updated :
- sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7
- sys-fs/ntfs3g-1.616-r1
- sys-fs/udev-112-r1
kernel-2.6.21
- - adding support in kernel to fix i810 problem ! According to : http://www.gkmac.co.uk/linuxacer.php
Device drivers --> Character devices -->
- < * > /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
- < * > Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
- [*] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
- < * > Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver)

Avahi is a framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery on Linux.
It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration.
For example, you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at, and people to talk to.
Main features:
- Licensed under LGPL
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- DBUS interface
- Drops all priviliges and runs as user "avahi"
- Embeddable mDNS stack (i.e. mDNS stack available as library)
- Support for loading static service definitions from XML fragments
- Interface to GLIBC NSS using [WWW]nss-mdns
- Ability to reflect mDNS traffic between multiple subnets
- Ability to configure a unicast DNS server automatically from server data published on the LAN

LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) is a kernel patch and admin tools which enhances the kernels security by implementing Mandatory Access Control (MAC).

When it is in effect, chosen file access, all system network administration operations, any capability use, raw device, memory, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root. You can define which programs can access specific files.

It uses and extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the kernel to enhance the security.

You can finely tune the security protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts through the network, and more. LIDS currently support kernel 2.6, 2.4.

Free60 Gentoo LiveCD Xenon is a liveCD for Linux on the Xbox 360. It is based on the experimental gentoo liveCD that can be found here:
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/experimental/ppc64/livecd/
It has a few changes to boot on the Xbox 360 (codename xenon).
How does it work ?
Burn gentoo-livecd-xenon-beta-v2.iso. Upload the cdreader binary via serial, or use the new king kong patcher with built-in readcd code, this will open the dvd tray. Put the gentoo-livecd-xenon-beta CD in the drive. cdreader will automatically start the xell bootloader located at lba 0x20 on this cd and boot the Linux Kernel.
Thanks to stonersmurf for the compilation of the liveCD.
Where to find more info on Linux for Xbox 360 :
http://www.free60.org/
Free60 is a project towards porting GNU/Linux, BSD, Darwin and related open-source operating systems to the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console.
Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox360 (and probably some more) are registered trademarks by Microsoft Corp. No affiliation between the Free60 Project and Microsoft Corp. exists or is implied. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
The new Live CD supports all Xbox 360 consoles with firmware versions 4532 and 4548 and can be run without affecting the consoles normal functionality. It contains the latest free60 patches against the Linux kernel 2.6.21 and ships with a full Gnome desktop environment, including applications like Firefox and Evolution. It also offers an entire 64-bit PowerPC compiler toolchain for developers.
Free60 is a project towards porting GNU/Linux, BSD, Darwin and related open-source operating systems to the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console.
Enhancements:
- New 2.6.21 based kernel
- Improved networking support
- Improved framebuffer kernel level support
- Supports Toshiba-Samsung drives, now

Hardened Linux is a hardened distribution based on a minimalized Slackware Linux 11.0.
This distribution is still under heavy development.
Hardened Linux (a.k.a. "Wendzel Linux") is a security distribution with 3 main targets:
- maximum security
- maximum stability
- maximum usuability
It is optimized to run on as firewall system, vpn gateway, IDS system and authentication system. Currently not all of these features are fully implemented.
Enhancements:
- This just an updated version of the 1.6.6-snapshot release. This release includes our current packages (gcc-4.2, glibc-2.5, kernel 2.6.21.3 and different other package updates). Nothing else has changed. We released this new version because it will still take a few weeks (if not months) before we can release the next snapshot version that includes a completely new package system and a completely new installer system. Please report any kind of bugs.

AliXe is a Canadian project known for developing a SLAX-based live CD localised into French, has released a bi-lingual (English and French) edition of their latest version.
Called "ICE Edition", the new live CD includes the IceWM window manager, together with a range of GTK+ applications, such as:
- Bluefish
- Gvim
- Ghex
- Gimp
- Inkscape
- Gtkam
- GQview
- ePDFView
- BMP
- gMplayer
- VLC
- Firefox
- Sylpheed
- Gaim
- BitTorrent
- Gftp
- AbiWord
- Gnumeric
- Galculator
- Gparted
- D4X
- Aumix
- Graveman
- Xarchiver
Full packages list is here.
Its based on SLAX 5.1.8 Popcorn.
Enhancements:
- Based on SLAX 6.0.0 RC6
- Kernel 2.6.21.5 with Xfce 4.4.1
- With the GTK applications
- Bilingual (english and french)

LiMP is a a tiny LIVE CD based linux distro, that loads into memory and works only in the memory. This is the easiest, simpler yet powerful distro that works in all computers (PIII onwards).
Linux Multimedia Player supports most of the known formats, let it be mpeg-I, or mpeg-II, or divx, or wmv,qt-mov,real video for video and for audio mp3,wav,wma, ogg, real audio. It has the auto detection of partitions (ide or sata or scsi), sound cards,video cards, network cards and supports all the the cards as of kernel 2.6.13. It identifies the Partitions and mounts in the folder START.
It has the network support, which can be configured inside the GUI. It also mounts the Windows Shares, Linux Smb shares in the folder START.
It is complete tiny OS, with menu driven option and requires no knowledge of linux. All in a embedded image file of size 35 MB that gives you the entertainment. It can be easily integrated into WINDOWS XP/2000/98/95 or in linux boot loader or boot from cdrom.
LiMP distro runs only from memory and so CDROM/DVD is free to use. LiMP is completely safe to use as it mounts the partitions (NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS) and windows / linux shares in READONLY mode.
Computer Shutdown schedule for bed time listeners. It supports viewing encrypted DVDs (Zone set DVDs). User has to option to load his favorite language font, for viewing subtitle User can set his favorite skin for xmms as default so that it loads on startup.
It runs a vnc server and can be accessed remotely from any vnc client.
Enhancements:
- The kernel was updated to 2.6.21.1.
- ALSA was updated to 1.0.14rc3.
- Idesk, a desktop program, was added.
- Mplayer, conky, and openbox were updated.
- Xdialog was added, providing an even easier interface.
- LiMP includes compressed cache to give better performance (http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/).

SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.
SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!
It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production enviroment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!
Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.
Whats New in 3.8.2 Stable Release:
- fixed a bug in the monitoring: REBOOTED state was not properly reported in some minimal image (without the command which)
- added "--config FILE" option to si_prepareclient and si_mkbootpackage (and removed from si_mkautoinstalldisk: the option must be used in commands that explicitly create an initrd.img from initrd_template)
- do not hard-code common patterns of exclusion in si_getimage (created the configuration file /etc/systemimager/getimage.exclude)
- si_getimage didnt stop correctly the rsync daemon in the golden client, using rsync over ssh for the image retrieval
Whats New in 3.9.2 Development Release:
- Added support for the PS3 architecture
- Improved support and compatibility with Debian (now deb packages can be automatically built from source using the new target "make deb")
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.21 (for i386 and x86_64)
- fixed a bug that broke si_mkautoinstalldisk
- free unused RAM of the initramfs (only with cpio initrd.img) after switching to tmpfs
- updated udev to udev_108-0ubuntu4
- support old versions of the BitTorrent client (better compatibilty with *Ubuntu)
- fixed a lib/lib64 bug with ppc64
- fixed a bug in si_monitor daemon that didnt start correctly when the directory /var/lock/systemimager was not present
- added missing manpages
- remount the filesystems in read-only before giving-up when the umount fails at the end of the installation
- create all the swap partitions before the other filesystems in the autoinstall script: this avoids potential OOM conditions that could occur during the filesystem creation
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img
- removed unmaintained package imagemanip
- removed deprecated command si_mkbootmedia