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The main goal of the Linux Trustees project is to create an advanced permission management system for Linux. The solution proposed is mainly inspired by the approach taken by Novell Netware and the Java security API.

Special objects (called trustees) can be bound to every file or directory. The trustee object can be used to ensure that access to a file, directory, or directory with subdirectories is granted (or denied) to a certain user or group (or all except user or group).

Trustees are like POSIX ACLs, but trustee objects can affect entire subdirectory trees, while ACLs a single file. Trustees works with the 2.6 Linux kernel.

Linux Cluster Manager is a graphical tool for managing multiple Linux systems from a central location. Meant primarily for Beowulf style clusters, it has many useful features for general system administration and even some non Linux specific possibilities like block level imaging.
Imaging with LCM is quick and easy as each node has its IP and hostname changed ready for boot as an independant node preloaded with all of your applications. Using a file based image, items can be changed such as the target device, the file system capacity, or even the file system type. Imagine requiring a new partition on boot disks already filled across hundreds of machines. It is a simple property change, re-image the node(s), and you are ready to go.
Image creation can be done from a running system or LCM can remote power on a node through WOL, PXE boot it, collect an image, and power off the node when complete.
All operations are simple point and click, no command line options to remember (these are optional), or complicated setup.
Main features:
- Easy to use GUI for all operations
- Real time status information for all nodes
- Connect to individual nodes via a user specified protocol (ssh, rsh, rlogin ,etc)
- Report on running processes across the cluster
Imaging Features
- Imaged nodes have IP and hostname information changed automatically, just image and boot
- Block level system imaging (can be used for any x86 based operating system)
- File level system imaging
- Wake on LAN for imaging
- Preconfigured for PXE boot of clients
- Images can be customized - target device changed, file system size, file system type
Monitor Features
- Real time status monitoring for all nodes, CPU and Network
- Scrolling, scalable graphs
- View all nodes or a subset you are interested in
Scripting Features
- Run scripts across the cluster or on select nodes without a client agent
- Connects via a user selected protocol with secure authentication
- Command line or GUI interface
- Can be incorporated into external scripts

Wazobia Linux is a complete Linux-based operating system designed and developed by Leapsoft.

Wazobia Linux distribution delivers quality desktop computing solutions that combine the best of open source technologies with a corporate attention to completeness, usability, and support.

It represents the next step in the evolution of the desktop computing in Africa and the rest of the developing world.

Wazobia Linux provides everything todays computer user needs for home and office desktop computing, including a stabilized, secure, stable and reliable, user-friendly Linux based operating system plus a complete set of desktop applications--office suite, Web browser, instant messaging client, multimedia viewers, and graphical software.

It also offers the latest open source applications for developing applications, setting up a home network, running a Web server, and more. Wazobia Linux includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD.

The OS is accessible in Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, to make users feel more at home in their computing environment. Leapsoft provides professional support for Wazobia Linux.

Frankie Linux is a bootable CD containing the Linux desktop operating system for PC. Frankie Linux runs Linux directly from the CD without installing.

All your available partitions and data storage devices (CD-ROM, USB storage devices, etc.) should be recognized at boot and should be mounted to /mnt/**.

Lots of useful applications are included.And you can also copy the CD to a FAT32 partition, and run it on your hard disk by launching a ms-dos program called loadlin.

A Live-CD is a completely operational Linux system contained on one bootable CD that can de run from any CD-ROM drive, without requering the installation of anything on your hard drive. When you want to return to your previous operating system, reboot and simply remove the CD from your drive. If you want to run Frankie Linux on your harddisk, just copy to a FAT32 Partition.

Frankie Linux is a distro base on Slackware , and it contains almost all usefull software for running full-fledged desktop, including Xwindow graphics user interface and lots of useful applications.

Frankie Linux can also be installed (manually) to a ext2/ext3/Reiserfs partition like other distributions, but you have to configure boot loader manually.

Asianux is a Linux server operating system which is co-developed by Chinese Leading Linux vendor Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. and Japanese Linux vendor Miracle Linux Corporation and Korean Linux software vendor Haansoft, INC, aiming at the common-standard enterprise Linux platform for Enterprise systems in Asia.

It provides enterprise customers with high reliability, scalability, manageability and better hardware & software compatibility.

Asianux certification partner program will invite more hardware and software products to be certified on Asianux, and it will definitely help to reduce developing and certificating resources and provide Linux with high quality and low cost.

Red Flag Software, Miracle Linux, and Haansoft INC. will distribute and market Asianux without any modifications in each Linux distribution package in China, Japan and Korea. New products such as Red Flag 5 Family , Miracle Linux V4.0 and Haansoft Linux 2005 will be based on Asianux and each will be bundled with localized features in each country.

Perl/Linux is a Linux distribution where ALL programs are written in perl.

Many of the programs came from Perl Power Tools (PPT). Other programs came from Jay Komineks Perl/Linux page.

Other programs, I wrote or enhanced, including: plHttpd (web server), edit (aced based), vi (enhanced aced), mount (enhanced unSlider version), xargs, login, passwd, getty, halt, init, ifconfig, route

The only compiled code in this Perl/Linux system is: Linux Kernel (not currently built with this project), perl, and uClibc.

With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and many more.

Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common architectures (ARM, Alpha, HPPA/HPPA64, ia64, MIPS, PowerPC/PowerPC64, Sparc/Sparc64 and x86/x86-64 - theoretically any GCC/Linux supported one).

T2 comes with many predefined targets (desktop, router, live CD ...) and over 1400 package descriptions ready to build.

T2 features an automated build system which manages the whole compilation process including a possible installer CD creation. After initial creation of the build-tool chain, all packages are built inside a sandbox environment to monitor installed files and dependencies automatically. The build system can also modify the execution of various programs to provide a generic way to control compiler flags and file manipulations.

The T2 framework allows the creation of individual custom build target definitions and to customize any build aspect, as well as every single package built for it. Due to the nature of the clean source packages and its automatic build system, T2 is highly portable. It includes support for ARM, Alpha, HPPA/HPPA64, ia64, MIPS, PowerPC, x86, sparc/sparc64 and x86-64. Adding new architectures is easy and can be done within a day!

Since the automatic build system controls the whole build, it can transform compiler arguments used by the various packages on-the-fly. This allows adapting the optimization for the specified CPU platform, thus accelerating your product over its current limits.

During T2 development, measurements are used to assure the high quality level defined by the developers. The sandbox environment is used to review the content installed by the packages, as well as the preconditions needed to build the package. In addition, a regression tester automatically verifies cross builds for the supported architectures and tracks the build status for every package included in T2.

With all the points outlined above, T2 offers a solid base and a flexible framework for integration with your custom applications. The state-of-the-art technology reduces the development time and the time to market.

Many end users and system administrators enjoy T2 with its clean and tested packages for daily home or office use.

With developers around the world, T2 is best suited for commercial scale products, especially in the embedded and high performance clustering market.

T2 aims to be open for active maintainers. Currently seven people have write access to the T2 Subversion repository. This organization provides for delivery of quick bug and security fixes (not relying on a single person in the process) and offers a nice development climate.