Free operating system software for linux

Knorpora is a modified version of the Knoppix 3.3 Live CD for students of corpus-based computational linguistics.

Like Knoppix, the Knorpora CD allows you to run a fully operational Debian/Linux operating system from the CD-ROM drive, without installing anything on the computer.

The Knorpora edition of Knoppix contains programs and data files that should be of interest to computational linguistics students (WordNet, the Natural Language Toolkit, taggers, etc.)

When you launch Knorpora on your computer, you can immediately start learning how to use a UNIX-like operating system while at the same time experimenting with the kind of UNIX-command-line-based NLP tools that make UNIX the ideal operating system for NLP work.

Even if you already work with UNIX, Knorpora may give you the chance to try some interesting software before you install it.

I tested Knorpora only superficially, and there will definitely be all kinds of problems.

If you experience problems with Knorpora, you can contact me (baroni AT sslmit unibo it), and I will try to help.

However, if you have problems with a specific tool, you are probably better off contacting the authors of the tool, or posting to the relevant list, and if you have general problems with the CD or the operating system, you are probably better off posting to a list where Knoppix and Linux issues are discussed.

I would like to hear from you about your Knorpora experience, suggestions for future releases, etc.

I optimistically named this release Knorpora 1.0, but I am not going to be able to release up-to-date versions on a regular basis.

loonix-live is a bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. loonix-live runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing.


The Live CD described here is based on the gentoo Linux distribution and uses the Unification File System (also known as unionfs), allowing a read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory.

loonix-live was created with the help of Tomas Matejiceks Linux live scripts. Tomas is also the developer of slax a slackware based live cd.

Yet another Linux FAQ is a comprehensive FAQ about the Linux Operating System. Yet another Linux FAQ is a great document for Linux beginners to read.
This FAQ tries to help those new to Linux help themselves. It covers topics such as kernel recompilation and X Window System configuration.
Enhancements:
- The FAQ was completely redesigned, and dead links were cleaned up.

Kaboot Linux Operating system aims to provide an operating system which you can take anywhere and has all your favourite programs on.

Kaboot operating system is avaliable as a Live CD or Live USB you can take with you anywhere.

A number of different versions are avaliable, two optimised for size or speed, one for functionality, and one science based.

All containing a host of useful programs able to boot virtually any computer (meeting the minimum requirements) from CD and

USB.Kaboot is still in active development and if you find a bug or fix, you can let me know in the forums.

Kaboot Science - contains a number of Scientific programs already setup and ready to go, with the purpose of introducing those unconvinced by the power of open source programs.

Packge List:

net-dialup/rp-pppoe
x11-misc/adesklets
media-gfx/scrot
sys-apps/coldplug
x11-misc/pypanel
sys-apps/slocate
sys-kernel/linux-headers
app-office/gnumeric
sys-devel/gettext
media-gfx/feh
sci-calculators/galculator
x11-themes/commonbox-styles
x11-themes/openbox-themes
app-admin/syslog-ng
sci-chemistry/easychem
app-admin/testdisk
sys-process/vixie-cron
x11-misc/obconf
sys-boot/grub
perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
x11-misc/bbrb
x11-misc/gdeskcal
net-ftp/gftp
sci-astronomy/predict
sci-astronomy/stellarium
x11-wm/openbox
x11-base/xorg-x11
net-misc/dhcpcd
app-admin/torsmo
media-gfx/gnuplot
sci-mathematics/octave
sys-libs/glibc
sci-libs/gsl
www-client/mozilla-firefox
app-editors/nano
app-arch/gzip
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
net-im/gaim
net-dialup/mingetty
sys-apps/hotplug
app-editors/cute
sci-chemistry/ghemical
x11-terms/aterm
app-office/abiword
sci-calculators/qalculate-units

J Operating System is primarily intended for programmers.
Target Users:
- Hobbiests--You used to buy computers to do programming. They didnt do much else. Windows doesnt even come with a compiler, which is ironic since Bill Gates wrote BASIC. The "J" operating system is primarily intended for programmers. Ive attempted to lower the bar, so amateurs can contribute. I hope to recreate the dynamic environment that used to exist when the Commodore 64 was around and everyone was creating odd-ball software.
- Researchers--Im sure many lab researchers still use DOS because they have to interact with hardware, which is difficult with Windows.
Main features:
- No security! You can access all ports, memory and disk blocks to your hearts content. When youre working with your own computer, security just gets in the way and makes things slow--I hate anti-virus and anti-spyware because they just slow things down. When you know you dont have a risk, have no secrets and do regular back-ups, who needs security?
- Uniformity
- There is no virtual memory and everyone is on the same address-map. You can easily communicate between tasks, passing addresses. Addresses start at a base of zero and, essentually, segment registers are not used.
- There is basically one language to learn called "C+" which is a little more than "C", but less than "C++". You dont need to learn a scripting langauge because everything uses this syntax.
- There is an extension of ASCII called "J" rich text which allows colors, links, graphics and various widgets in your documents. This format is used in source code, documents, help, menus, etc.
- Support for compressed, encrypted and contiguous files.
- FAT32, FAT12 and ISO9660 filesystems.
- Blazing-fast compiler which can recompile everything in 5 seconds. It doesnt optimize.
- All source code is included and its still around a Meg.
Hardware:
- PS/2 mouse and keyboard
- VGA graphics
- Some hard drives. Must be on the primary or secondary IDE controller and support LBA28. Drives of 120Gig are the limit.
- Some CD-ROM/DVD drives, including burning.
- Some floppies. Just 1.44Meg and not all types.
- No USB support yet
- No network support yet
- ASCII printers on the parallel port are supported.

Buenos is a small SMP operating system skeleton which can be used as a base for operating systems project courses. Buenos runs in a machine simulator called YAMS, which is also available here.

Buenos project is intended to be used as OS project base code which students can improve. Extensive documentation with suggestions for assignments or exercises is included with the system.

The Buenos system has fully pre-emptive kernel threading with SMP support. The system includes spinlocks, sleep queues and semaphores as synchronization primitives (locks and condition variables are documented as an exercise).

Userland programs are partially supported: system call interface is done, but most system calls are only documented, but not implemented. Virtual memory subsystem is not implemented, only tools for implementation are provided.

Buenos also includes device drivers for all YAMS virtual devices except the network interface (left as an exercise). A simple filesystem with a Unix tool to access it outside the virtual machine is also provided. Packet oriented networking is supported, reliable streams are documented as an exercise.