Free knoppix software for linux

PaiPix Linux is a compilation of Free Software, based on KNOPPIX live linux, that is meant to be used in any environment but with special emphasis on science and technologies.
PaiPix Linux should provide an open door to the public including not only the tolls used by the scientists but also the best free applications that make your computer more interesting for any usage.
If you like it for office, video or even gaming, who knows if someday you can get curious and give a look at the scientific applications that are in your DVD.
PaiPix can be used at home, in medium and even large size organizations where the sharing of the compressed DVD image and the included afs file system support make it extreemely powerfull.
PaiPix Linux also serves to support clusters of distributed computing (using the paipix-terminalsever), for data servers, farms simulation farms and user laboratories.
PaiPix linux combines all the versatility of KNOPPIX with optimized configuration for several languages, including Portuguese. It intends to not only serve in document editing tasks but also for advanced technological and scientific systems.
Using the paipix-remaster script, you can change the default language of your iso image or add your personal files to the PAIPIX DVD.
This work was only possible because Free Software experts have created all the infrastructure allowing a gigantic world-wide community of software volunteers develop what is already, without any doubt, the best operative system the world.
However, because (r)evolutions take time, many companies that are developing systems - which in the end are designed to store in practice the technological and scientific knowledge of mankind - still work in a closed form (proprietary).
There is still a reason to use other operative systems while the community of free software does not this knowledge to the whole humanity. In the following table we include a correspondence that facilitates the migration to free software for each application. All mentioned free software is installed in PaiPix!
This software is distributed without any guarantee if not the fact that a great number of components are permanently being used and tested by millions of people in the whole world.
Based on Knoppix 3.8, including kernel 2.6.11. It uses the Unionfs file system that mounts the DVD image in read-write mode. Using this feature, PAIPIX can run your 3D-enabled drivers for ATI or NVIDIA cards. Just use knoppix install=ati or knoppix install=nvidia as boot option and run the FlightGear simulator (fgfs) to see the new fantastic 3D support in Linux
Enhancements:
- The new PAIPIX 7 keeps its focus on scientific software but drops the emphasis on a pure live DVD to integrate installation, live and upgrade systems. The new main use cases are: LIVE - starting PAIPIX in the live mode, one has access to complete system including KDE, office and development; INSTALLATION - by starting PAIPIX in the installation mode one has access to the standard Debian installer system; UPGRADE - as part of the entire system, the DVD includes a Debian CD-ROM repository that includes all necessary packages. The PAIPIX ISO images are available in English and in bilingual editions that support both English and one of the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and German.

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size, Damn Small Linux strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
Having a working Linux desktop distro on a 50 mb bootable business card CD is just too cool not to do.
Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links web browser, FireFox, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor (FLwriter), four editors (Beaver, nVi, Zile [emacs clone], and Nano [Pico clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic and GhostScript printer support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support, some wireless support.
If you like DSL you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.
Originally DSL was based on model_k, which did an excellent distillation of Knoppix down to 33 megabytes. But more recent versions are a reduction from Knoppix proper.
As many know Knoppix is based on Debian which really made my task a lot easier, but the applications on the CD are not pure Debian. I am using a few apps that are not available via apt-get.
Whats New in 4.0 RC1 Development Release:
- New pendrive usbhdd installation script now uses grub with DSL on 2nd small partition.
- Removed pendrive usbzip install script, syslinux and mtools.
- Changed default root menu from dfm to chosen WM menu.
- Updated "Getting Started" to reflect changed defaults.
- Changed kernel from 2.4.34.1 to 2.4.31 to gain user contributed modules, e.g., ipw2and nvidia.
- Created new support modules: cloop, unionfs, ndiswrapper, fuse, and madwifi in support of kernel change.
- Updated nano-tiny to v2.0.6.
- Fixed non-critical bug in dsl-config concerning hard drive installations.
- Added dsl 3 runlevel for multiple user dsl consoles.
- Fixed bug in iwconfig-setup
- Updated functions5.lua
- Updated fluxbox menus to use system default (helvetica).
- Added vim link
- Patched knoppix-autoconfig to correct language issues.

Python CD is a bootable CD based on Debian GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX.
The special thing about it is that it has lots of Python stuff!
Installable Python packages
In the top level directory of the CD is a directory python/, containing several packages of Python:
- Python for Linux - most Linux distributions include Python, so we dont provide it for them
- Python for Mac OS X
- Python for Windows, win32all extension
- Python for DOS - no maintainer yet, so we only provide an URL
- Python source code, if you want to compile it yourself
Ready-to-Use Python
On the bootable Linux system, Python is already installed and ready to run:
- Python 2.3.4 (latest and greatest, use this!)
- Python 2.2.3
- Python 2.1.3
Python CD Packages
Here is an overview of popular packages installed on the PythonCd.
PythonCdRawPackageList has a complete raw list of installed debian packages.
IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)
- eric3 - a very nice and powerful GUI IDE
- IDLE - a simpler, but also popular GUI IDE
- DrPython - another GUI IDE
- IPython - an extended interactive Python command interpreter
GUI Builders
- BoaConstructor
- PythonCard
- ? WxGlade
GUI Toolkit bindings
- PyGtk
- PyQt
- WxPython
Graphics libs
- PIL
- PyGame
- PyOpenGL
Web/HTML/XML stuff
- MoinMoin wiki - you are using it right now
- TwistedMatrix AKA Twisted - a Python internet framework, very powerful
- Quixote
- PyXML, libxml2 and other XML packages
Scientific
- python-numeric and python-numarray - math extensions
- python-pyx - module for generating PostScript graphics, plotting
Database
- Gadfly
- python-mysqldb - interface for MySQL
- python-pgsql - DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x
- python-pygresql - PostgreSQL module
Misc
- PyChecker - checks your source code for common errors"

JDJ is the music player for friends DJs.
No button that makes your screen sounds like a Xmas tree. Just what is useful for friends DJs ! Its a music player specially designed for you, very simple to use, but with powerful features... free and soon open-source !
Main features:
- multi-sound cards support. 2 players with auto-mix between songs,1 pre-listen player
- indexing of thousands of songs in a single efficient database (mp3 supported in the first version. Others will be supported later : ogg, wav, ..)
- direct search / selection over all songs in the database. Management of song categories
- playlist offering the possibility to manage songs by groups. Open / save m3u and m3u8 playlists keeping groups definitions
Usage:
- unzip it somewhere on your disk. If you would like to boot from a Live CD, think to put JDJ on an USB memory stick to enable it to manage and store its database
- think to turn the sound card volume ON (it was OFF by default on my Knoppix configuration<<less