Free hardened distribution software for linux

Linux distribution race is a cool car race for 4 players, cars are named by Linux distributions (Mandrake, SUSE, RedHat, Debian).

You can create maps in GIMP. Controls: WSAD, TGFH, IKJL, arrows.

JackLab Audio Distribution is a remastered openSUSE for musicians, producers and media creators.

The JackLab Team is proud to present the first public alpha-release of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD). The 1.2GB DVD iso can be downloaded from jacklab.org.

We have found that musicians have particular requirements for their Linux environment. A Linux-based distribution that is designed for music needs to be flexible, powerful, yet easy and quick to use. All of these things are essential in a busy, creative environment. Thinking about these requirements, we decided to base JAD on openSUSE due to its stability and long development history. All major administrative tasks can be done graphically and easily without having to learn any complicated terminal commands.

JAD will be fully compatible with the recently released openSUSE 10.2. It will contain a full production environment for media production, primarily music. For this, the JackLab team added a Realtime Kernel version 2.6.19 to have fast audio processing with a latency up to 1.5ms. The default audio system will be based on the the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) which is designed for the needs of musicians and producers and gives a professional audio/midi controlling interface.

The installer is based on the acclaimed YaST2, which also serves as an easy-to-use administrative tool. To keep as many essential computer resources for music as possible, we have decided to use Enlightenment D17 desktop shell as the default window manager. KDE desktop environment is also included, so the user-friendly file manager - Konqueror, is available along with Kmail, Konversation, k3b and other KDE tools. For music creation and editing, we have included around 70 audio applications with sequencers, synthesizers and tools all installed and ready to go. User-friendly support for setting up and running VST instruments and effects is given. Additionally, there are applications for video production and a graphic suite that are included on the DVD. For browsing the internet, we have included Firefox 2.0 chosen for its stability, security and extendability.

JAD is a community based effort and is the culmination of the work of many contributors. Recently, JackLab and PackMan (packman.links2linux.de) have joined forces to offer JAD access to the PackMan repositories so that up-to-date audio software, non-audio software and multimedia codecs are available to JAD users. The JAD development team would like you to participate in the development process too. There are different ways you can help:

-As a tester, you can download the most recent version and use the bugtracker to report any problems.
-You can participate in the graphics contest: The best graphics submitted will be used as default for the bootscreen, wallpaper, skins and icons.
-You can submit feature requests and take part in discussions on the mailing list.
-For taking part in providing user support, there is a web based forum and an IRC channel - it is also an essential part of the development process to see feedback.

Statistics::Distributions is a Perl module for calculating critical values and upper probabilities of common statistical distributions.

SYNOPSIS

use Statistics::Distributions;

$chis=Statistics::Distributions::chisqrdistr (2,.05);
print "Chi-squared-crit (2 degrees of freedom, 95th percentile "
."= 0.05 level) = $chisn";

$u=Statistics::Distributions::udistr (.05);
print "u-crit (95th percentile = 0.05 level) = $un";

$t=Statistics::Distributions::tdistr (1,.005);
print "t-crit (1 degree of freedom, 99.5th percentile = 0.005 level) "
."= $tn";

$f=Statistics::Distributions::fdistr (1,3,.01);
print "F-crit (1 degree of freedom in numerator, 3 degrees of freedom "
."in denominator, 99th percentile = 0.01 level) = $fn";

$uprob=Statistics::Distributions::uprob (-0.85);
print "upper probability of the u distribution (u = -0.85): Q(u) "
."= 1-G(u) = $uprobn";

$chisprob=Statistics::Distributions::chisqrprob (3,6.25);
print "upper probability of the chi-square distribution (3 degrees "
."of freedom, chi-squared = 6.25): Q = 1-G = $chisprobn";

$tprob=Statistics::Distributions::tprob (3,6.251);
print "upper probability of the t distribution (3 degrees of "
."freedom, t = 6.251): Q = 1-G = $tprobn";

$fprob=Statistics::Distributions::fprob (3,5,.625);
print "upper probability of the F distribution (3 degrees of freedom "
."in numerator, 5 degrees of freedom in denominator, F = 6.25): "
."Q = 1-G = $fprobn";

This Perl module calculates percentage points (5 significant digits) of the u (standard normal) distribution, the students t distribution, the chi-square distribution and the F distribution. It can also calculate the upper probability (5 significant digits) of the u (standard normal), the chi-square, the t and the F distribution. These critical values are needed to perform statistical tests, like the u test, the t test, the F test and the chi-squared test, and to calculate confidence intervals.

If you are interested in more precise algorithms you could look at: StatLib: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/apstat/ ; Applied Statistics Algorithms by Griffiths, P. and Hill, I.D., Ellis Horwood: Chichester (1985)

Red Hat Linux is probably the best-known Linux distribution. Red Hat Linux is well-supported by commercial software, and tends to be easy to install and have good hardware support out of the box.

Compaq has taken over the maintenance for Red Hat for their Alpha processor - theres a link to their Alpha Red Hat page below.

Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat will stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux distribution, "Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution, "The Fedora Project".

Gendist is a live CD generator system. Gendist has nice features like multi-distribution CDs, support for grub, isolinux, and gfxboot boot managers, and a modules system for configuring your distribution in live mode.

This system is independent from the kernel version (but need unionfs and squashfs support). It only works on Debian Sid or Ubuntu Dapper.

UbuntuTrinux seeks to integrate elements (and code, where appropriate) of Trinux with the Debian/Ubuntu mkinitramfs infrastructure to allow easy development and packaging Ubuntu binary (and ultimately package and repository) compatible ramdisk distributions using recent 2.6.x kernels. As before, the most common use is network security monitoring and analysis.

Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit was a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that was under active development from 1998-2003.

FreeNAS is a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution(for run it on a Compact Flash, CD-ROM or USB key) that provide NAS (Network-Attached Storage) services, supporting: CIFS, FTP, NFS protocols, with a Full WEB configuration interface.

The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface,PHP scripts and documentations are based on M0n0wall.