CDlinux
CDlinux is a compact Linux distribution. It is small in size, yet rich in features. It ships with an up-to-date version of the Linux kernel, Xorg, Xfce, and many popular applications. It has good internationalization and locale support and is highly user-configurable.
| Tags | Operating Systems Linux Distributions CD-Based Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Awk C Unix Shell |
Recent releases
- 28 Feb 2009 08:08
Changes: This release fixed a bug in the install wizard. Installing to the Windows C: drive works again. It is now possible to boot the ISO image directly and install without burning a CD. A bug in rc.swap that caused CDlinux to fail to set up pagefile.sys as swap on some VFAT partitions wa s fixed. A bug in the cups package was fixed, and printing now works again. Wine was downgraded to 1.0.1. qt-x11-opensource 4.4.3, Opera 10.00.4102, smplayer 0.6.6, gmlive 0.21.2, xfburn 0.4.1, and gparted 0.4.3 were included.
- 12 Feb 2009 21:39
Changes: This release adds a new GUI installation/upgrade wizard. The "persistent mode" code has been rewritten, and persistent data is saved as a squashfs image. fcitx has been replaced with scim to support IM for more locales. There is full support for de_DE, en_CA, en_GB, fr_CA, fr_FR, ja_JP, and ru_RU. There is support for "Safe Graphics Mode" in case the native Xorg driver failed. It determines whether to run in RAM or loop mode more intelligently. There is some fine-tuning to improve performance on machines with lesser memory. There are many package upgrades.
- 20 Dec 2008 07:26
Changes: This release is a major step toward version 1.0. There are many changes and enhancements, including support for "persistent mode", auto save/restore user changes support for printing, support for booting directly from an ISO image, Samba client and printing support, support for Java, a new boot splash image, and a revised and more efficient package management system.
- 22 Oct 2008 15:26
Changes: This edition emphasizes usability and user experience. Many handy tools and applications are added. There are also some new GUI configuration tools to make CDlinux more user friendly.
- 10 Oct 2008 17:49
Changes: A smart handling codepage (FAT/NTFS) of hotplug-able media. Ppower management support (ACPI/cpufreq). Auto-guessing the current time zone. Multimedia keyboard support. Booting from Linux RAID and ATA RAID. Improved support for a lot of newer hardware (video/WLAN/Linux UVC). Several new GUI configure tools. For those who love the old CDlinux 0.4.x, a new console-only CDlinux_mini edition is also released.
