Linux graphical bootsplash allows you to use custom graphics during early system startup. It makes it possible to place a nice graphic behind or above the kernel boot messages.

Linux graphical bootsplash hooks into the fbcon layer and, if activated, searches the initial ramdisk for a JPEG picture to show.

On any output operations to the console, it takes care of painting a margin around your text and a background picture behind the text with a set of special cfb functions.

Here are some key features of "Linux graphical bootsplash":

· Nice graphics (JPEG)
· Antialiased text rendering (TrueType)
· Animations (MNG)
· Progress Bar
· Display of boot messages above or below a graphic. ("verbose" and "silent" modes)
· Fully themeable

Whats New in This Release:

· The bootsplash patch was updated to apply cleanly against Linux kernel 2.6.21.

AliXe is a Canadian project known for developing a SLAX-based live CD localised into French, has released a bi-lingual (English and French) edition of their latest version.

Called "ICE Edition", the new live CD includes the IceWM window manager, together with a range of GTK+ applications, such as:

· Bluefish
· Gvim
· Ghex
· Gimp
· Inkscape
· Gtkam
· GQview
· ePDFView
· BMP
· gMplayer
· VLC
· Firefox
· Sylpheed
· Gaim
· BitTorrent
· Gftp
· AbiWord
· Gnumeric
· Galculator
· Gparted
· D4X
· Aumix
· Graveman
· Xarchiver

Full packages list is here.

Its based on SLAX 5.1.8 Popcorn.

Whats New in This Release:

· Based on SLAX 6.0.0 RC6
· Kernel 2.6.21.5 with Xfce 4.4.1
· With the GTK applications
· Bilingual (english and french)

Wolvix is a GNU/Linux LiveCD built from SLAX. Wolvix is a desktop oriented distribution made to fit the needs from regular to advanced desktop users.

Whats New in This Release:

· Im pleased to announce the final release of Wolvix Cub and Wolvix Hunter version 1.1.0. This release marks a turning point in the Wolvix development as its not longer a SLAX remaster, but now based on the stable Slackware releases and the Linux-Live scripts. New features in Wolvix 1.1.0 are: LZMA compressed modules, SMP support, NTFS write support, auto mounting through HAL, Xfce 4.4.1, and as always a full range of applications for office, graphics, multimedia and development use. Though this release is based on Slackware 11.0 it comes with the 2.6.21.5 kernel and many other package upgrades.

Free60 Gentoo LiveCD Xenon is a liveCD for Linux on the Xbox 360. It is based on the experimental gentoo liveCD that can be found here:

http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/experimental/ppc64/livecd/

It has a few changes to boot on the Xbox 360 (codename xenon).

How does it work ?

Burn gentoo-livecd-xenon-beta-v2.iso. Upload the cdreader binary via serial, or use the new king kong patcher with built-in readcd code, this will open the dvd tray. Put the gentoo-livecd-xenon-beta CD in the drive. cdreader will automatically start the xell bootloader located at lba 0x20 on this cd and boot the Linux Kernel.

Thanks to stonersmurf for the compilation of the liveCD.

Where to find more info on Linux for Xbox 360 :

http://www.free60.org/

Free60 is a project towards porting GNU/Linux, BSD, Darwin and related open-source operating systems to the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console.
Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox360 (and probably some more) are registered trademarks by Microsoft Corp. No affiliation between the Free60 Project and Microsoft Corp. exists or is implied. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.

The new Live CD supports all Xbox 360 consoles with firmware versions 4532 and 4548 and can be run without affecting the consoles normal functionality. It contains the latest free60 patches against the Linux kernel 2.6.21 and ships with a full Gnome desktop environment, including applications like Firefox and Evolution. It also offers an entire 64-bit PowerPC compiler toolchain for developers.

Free60 is a project towards porting GNU/Linux, BSD, Darwin and related open-source operating systems to the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console.

Whats New in This Release:

· New 2.6.21 based kernel
· Improved networking support
· Improved framebuffer kernel level support
· Supports Toshiba-Samsung drives, now

UDPcast project is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PCs at once.

The advantage of UDPcast over using other methods (nfs, ftp, whatever) is that UDPcast uses Ethernets multicast abilities: it wont take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install just 2.

UDPcast is released under the GPL 2.0 license.

UDPcast can be started from the included linuxrc boot disk for OS installations, or from the command line when using it for other purposes.

Whats New in This Release:

· The kernel was upgraded to 2.6.21.3 and busybox was upgraded to 1.5.1.
· The code was adapted to Solaris 10 x86 by adding includes and configure checks.
· A patch was made to fix parallel make and make DESTDIR=/tmp/xxx install.
· gcc4 warnings were addressed.

Bluewhite64 Linux is an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the AMD64 architecture. This means that it runs on AMD64 based servers and computers.

Bluewhite64 Linuxs goal of this port is to mimic the user experience of the Intel x86 distribution at its best. I will try to include the same software, configuration scripts and so on. If you notice any differences between Bluewhite64 and the original Slackware, dont hesitate to email me.

Whats New in This Release:

· This version includes the Linux 2.6.21.5 kernel with the IA32-emulation enabled, the testing Linux 2.6.22 kernel in the testing/ directory with support for IDE, SATA, SCSI, and RAID controllers, Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, and IBMs SGI filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume, software RAID, LVM2, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), and encrypted file systems. It also includes the GCC 4.1.2 compiler and Glibc 2.5 with NPTL, the latest KDE 3.5.7 and XFce 4.4.1, the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4, SeaMonkey 1.1.2, Apache 2.2.4, PHP 5.2.3, and MySQL 5.0.37.

Hardened Linux is a hardened distribution based on a minimalized Slackware Linux 11.0.

This distribution is still under heavy development.

Hardened Linux (a.k.a. "Wendzel Linux") is a security distribution with 3 main targets:

- maximum security
- maximum stability
- maximum usuability

It is optimized to run on as firewall system, vpn gateway, IDS system and authentication system. Currently not all of these features are fully implemented.

Whats New in This Release:

· This just an updated version of the 1.6.6-snapshot release. This release includes our current packages (gcc-4.2, glibc-2.5, kernel 2.6.21.3 and different other package updates). Nothing else has changed. We released this new version because it will still take a few weeks (if not months) before we can release the next snapshot version that includes a completely new package system and a completely new installer system. Please report any kind of bugs.

GParted LiveCD is a linux distribution based on Gnome Partition Editor.

It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partitiontables while several (optional) filesystemtools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.

These optional packages will be detected at runtime and dont require a rebuild of GParted.

GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm as Graphical Toolkit. The general approach is to keep the GUI as simple as possible. Thats why i try to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

GParted comes under the terms of the General Public License.

Whats New in This Release:

New package :
· bc (text-calculator)

Packages updated :
· sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7
· sys-fs/ntfs3g-1.616-r1
· sys-fs/udev-112-r1

kernel-2.6.21
· - adding support in kernel to fix i810 problem ! According to : http://www.gkmac.co.uk/linuxacer.php

Device drivers --> Character devices -->
· < * > /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
· < * > Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
· [*] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
· < * > Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver)

Wolvix is a GNU/Linux LiveCD built from SLAX. Wolvix is a desktop oriented distribution made to fit the needs from regular to advanced desktop users.

Along with the applications youll get some of the best free Linux games. (No 3D gfx card required).

Whats New in This Release:

· Im pleased to announce the final release of Wolvix Cub and Wolvix Hunter version 1.1.0. This release marks a turning point in the Wolvix development as its not longer a SLAX remaster, but now based on the stable Slackware releases and the Linux-Live scripts. New features in Wolvix 1.1.0 are: LZMA compressed modules, SMP support, NTFS write support, auto mounting through HAL, Xfce 4.4.1, and as always a full range of applications for office, graphics, multimedia and development use. Though this release is based on Slackware 11.0 it comes with the 2.6.21.5 kernel and many other package upgrades.

Wolvix is a GNU/Linux LiveCD built from SLAX. Wolvix is a desktop oriented distribution made to fit the needs from regular to advanced desktop users.

Along with the applications youll get some of the best free Linux games. (No 3D gfx card required).

Hunter is the large standard version of Wolvix, its designed to fit on 512MB USB Flash Drives and use Wolvix Cub as its base. It includes more applications, a lot of games and larger packages like Samba, Java and libraries for printer support which its younger brother Cub doesnt have. Wolvix Hunter is desktop and multimedia oriented operating system for everyday computing tasks , fun and entertainment. It comes with both the Xfce desktop environment and the Fluxbox window manager.

Whats New in This Release:

· Im pleased to announce the final release of Wolvix Cub and Wolvix Hunter version 1.1.0. This release marks a turning point in the Wolvix development as its not longer a SLAX remaster, but now based on the stable Slackware releases and the Linux-Live scripts. New features in Wolvix 1.1.0 are: LZMA compressed modules, SMP support, NTFS write support, auto mounting through HAL, Xfce 4.4.1, and as always a full range of applications for office, graphics, multimedia and development use. Though this release is based on Slackware 11.0 it comes with the 2.6.21.5 kernel and many other package upgrades.

Yoper is a high performance operating system which has been carefully optimized for PCs with either i686 or higher processor types.

The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch using the original sources combined with the some of the best features from other Open Source Linux distributions (distros).

However, Yoper is not like general purpose distros such as Redhat or Mandrake. It is a high performance Desktop OS. It is compact.

Yoper Linux resides on 1 cd-rom. In fact, Yoper is also one of the most standards-based environments in the Linux community! You will find hardware performance as good or better than that of any commercial OS.

Whats New in This Release:

· The Yoper team is proud to announce the long-awaited stable release of Yoper Linux 3.0, codename Titanium. This release ships with kernel 2.6.21.1, including the Con Kolivas patch set and SD scheduler, X.Org 7.2, KDE 3.5.7, KOffice 1.6.3, Firefox 2.0.0.4 and a vast range of other cutting-edge desktop packages. This release will be followed by a bug-fix release in about 4 weeks time. It will only contain simple application updates and bug fixes.