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Pioneer Linux is a desktop-oriented, Kubuntu-based distribution targeted at new as well as experienced Linux users. The product comes in two flavours: as a freely downloadable live and installation CD, and as a commercial boxed edition with CrossOver Office and technical support.
Test and try before you install Thats right, you can test Pioneer Linux running off the CD before you decide to perform an installation. This means that you can actually run your operating system and learn it before you install or make that critical decision to leave your previous operating system installation. ASPEN for older computers is not a live CD.
Burn CDs Yes take a look at our screenshots and youll see weve included a utility named K3b so you can burn your CDs or DVDs! K3b is a simple yet powerful tool thats simple to use
Browse the Internet safely Yes its safe! You can browse the Internet safely when you use Pioneer Linux. Its not the same anymore with people dropping viruses or keystroke loggers because of that old unsafe browser youve been using for years! Go wild and have fun!
Listen to music You can listen to your favorite music while working using the CD Player included or make cuts and create your own CD from your music! You decide, the tools are included!
Word processing and more! Yes thats right! Your Pioneer Linux operating system comes with OpenOffice.org that allows you to exchange documents with Word users. You even have the opportunity to run spreadsheets and create professional presentations. More? yes a database application is new with OpenOffice.org 2.0
Play some games Weve packed Pioneer with loads of games to help you kill some time. Want more than those included? Check the knowledge base for more games that can be run like Savage or Civilization.
Utilities Weve included some of the best utilities to manage your operating system today. These utilities come with even our basic ASPEN application so you can manage your system day-to-day!
Enhancements:
- Technalign, Inc. has released Pioneer Basic 2.1 of its base Linux operating system. Pioneer Basic 2.1 is being released on DVD. Technalign will continue to ship Pioneer Basic 2.0 for those users who do not wish to purchase a DVD drive for their systems. Pioneer Basic 2.1 is similar to Basic 2.0 with several exceptions. The biggest exception is that Pioneer 2.1 is based on Feisty and not Edgy while it continues to be based on Kubuntu. Adept is no longer incorporated as the update manager, but is now replaced with Synaptic per the business and consumer communities. Also notable are the Guarddog Firewall as well as the KlamAV anti-virus utilities that have been added and OpenOffice.org 2.2.

Pioneer Linux, a product of Technalign, Inc, is a desktop-oriented, Kubuntu-based distribution targeted at new as well as experienced Linux users.
Pioneer Linux comes in two flavours: as a freely downloadable live and installation CD, and as a commercial boxed edition with CrossOver Office and technical support.
Enhancements:
- Technalign, Inc. has announced that they have released Pioneer Rifleman Alpha 3 for testing. Rifleman requires a DVD for installation and is only recommended for P4 systems, or equivalent, and NVIDIA or ATI for graphics support. The new build includes additional drivers not included in Alpha 2 as well as the Guarddog firewall and KlamAV anti-virus. Dianne Ursini, CEO of Technalign, Inc. stated, We have been excluding KlamAV as well as Guarddog in the past for obvious reasons but are including it now due to the demand of our Partner network. Technalign is requesting that the community as well as its partners report bugs and desired drivers.

Icon execute feedback replaces the zooming rectangle that is drawn if you activate an icon in konqueror for execution feedback. It removes the rectangle and instead zooms the icon bigger and fades it out while doing. Its like MacOS X execution feedback.
Currently works in Konqueror, Kicker and all file dialogs. You will need a machine > 600 MHz for this though, else the
animation may be slow.
This is a patch against kdebase-3.5.6 and kdelibs-3.5.6
So you have to recompile the two packages. Please only do
that if you are experienced enough with recompiling KDE.
Apply the patches as follows:
1. Get kdebase-3.5.6
2. Get kdelibs-3.5.6
3. Get this patch
4. Unpack all archives
5. Change to the dir you unpacked kdelibs
6. Execute "patch -p1 7. Recompile kdelibs
8. Install kdelibs (necessary as some header files changed)
9. Change to the dir you unpacked kdebase
7. Execute "patch -p1 8. Recompile kdebase
9. Install kdebase
10. Logout of kde and then login again.
11. Watch the icons zooming
Have fun. If you dont understand the step by step manual above please inform yourself about how to recompile KDE on kde.org
Enhancements:
- Slowed down the animation a bit

SUSE Linux Remastered combines the 10.1 GM and all online updates that have been released for 10.1.

openSUSE Linux provides anyone with free and easy access to the worlds most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com) that promotes the use of Linux everywhere.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:

Make SUSE Linux the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain, and the most widely used open source platform.

Provide an environment for open source collaboration tha makes SUSE Linux the worlds best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.

Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make SUSE Linux the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

Currently, SUSE Linux is an unsupported, open source only, preliminary edition of SUSE Linux that contains bleeding-edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot. If you intend to test for bugs or contribute patches, this version is for you...

JSpente is a Javascript/DHTML implementation of the strategy board game "Pente". Runs in the browser with several challenging computer intelligence levels. Play human versus computer, human versus human or computer versus computer.

Pente is a simple strategy game played on a grid. The pieces, called "winks" are placed on the line intersections of the board rather than in the squares. Players take turns placing pieces. Pieces may be placed anywhere on the board, though it is customary to place the first piece on the center position.

There are two ways to win the game: place five winks in a row or capture five pairs of your opponents winks. Rows may be established in any direction, including diagonally. Capturing a pair of winks is done by surrounding a pair of your opponents winks with your own so they form a row of four. The captured pair is removed from the board.

It is customary to warn your opponent when you have four in a row. If neither end of your row of four is blocked, you have an "open four" and will win on your next turn. JSpente visually alerts rows of four winks for both players.

JSpente may be adjusted to balance the game if an experienced player is playing an inexperienced one. The required number of winks in a row and the required number of pairs to capture can be adjusted for either player. The computer can control either player or both players with varying levels of intelligence.

openSUSE Live DVD contains a base desktop system (KDE and Gnome) with applications for office, multimedia and internet usage.
The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution.
The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the worlds most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.
Enhancements:
- The last piece of the openSUSE 10.2 distribution got released today.
- The Live DVD image has a size of 1.7 GB and can be used on every x86 compatible system with at least 512 MB of memory.
- It contains a base desktop system (KDE and Gnome) with applications for office, multimedia and internet usage.

Tao Linux is a project to build a free Linux distribution from the sources used in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line.
The target market is either experienced system administrators who would like freely available binaries of this code, or end users who are interested in experimenting with enterprise functionality.
Besides being mostly compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, it also includes software packages such as Eclipse and clustering tools not found in the base RHEL products.
Main features:
- Yum used for updates
- Based on commercially produced Enterprise sources
- Many packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux also run on Tao Linux
- Free as in speech and beer
- Security updates (in SRPM form, at least) available for seven years.

KLearnNotes2 helps learning the names of music notes.
In future KLearnNotes2 will be a full-featured music teacher (rhythm, scales, key signatures, chords) with special focus on guitar playing.
Main features:
- a wise quick learning algorithm (focusing training on what a student knows the worst)
- a flexible lesson choice and a set of preset lessons focused on gradual learning of successive notes
- bass and treble clefs
- a flexible speed goal choice and a set of preset speed-goal levels (to encourage training for fast, automatic notes reading)
- two training modes:
- static, vertical notes positions (preparation for chord reading)
- horizontal, game-style (preparation for sight-reading)
- voice recognition (you can answer questions with your voice!)
- sound output choice: standard, for guitar players or custom
- qt/kdelibs; midi sound output for OSS or using timidity (any system) or ALSA (experimental! using tse3 library); voice recognition from microphone (OSS only).
- Perfect for a music newbie and for an experienced musician trying to learn new stuff (for example a new staff.
Enhancements:
Thu May 12 09:58:57 CET 2004
- src/kln* major: added horizontal exercise ("game")
- added first trial of midi for aRts/tse3
- added configure option --with-cvsfeatures
- added kln2 option --quiet (or -q)
Sun Apr 11 06:25:55 2004 UTC
- src/* major: added Solfeggio notes naming
Sun Mar 7 00:40:55 CET 2004
- src/* major: first version of PianoKeyboard and
- BaseMusicNote classes
Mon Mar 1 01:46:28 CET 2004
- src/* major: added timidity MIDI output; new MidiOutput
- class, ready for implementing other supports
Mon Feb 23 00:30:46 +0000
- src/voice_recog* minor: fixed compilation problems:
- variable-size array prefetch_buf
- pointer of type `void * used in arithmetic