Projects

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!

Kubuntu

Kubuntu is a a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

openSUSE Linux

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, openSUSE.org provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux is a community-based Linux distribution, suitable for a wide range of solutions: from clustering to servers, firewalls and - most commonly - desktops. Mandriva Linux has a long history of open development, especially via the "Cooker", a fluid distribution that resembles a stable release for a few weeks every six months.

ALT Linux

ALT Linux is a set of Linux distributions that are based on Sisyphus, an APT-enabled RPM package repository that aims to achieve feature completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable mixture.

aptosid

aptosid (formerly sidux) is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, Debian's most modern branch (called "Sid") and many free and open source applications.

PC-BSD

PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard at a click. PC-BSD is a complete desktop operating system, which has ... [More] been designed with the "casual" computer user in mind. It offers the stability and security that only a BSD-based operating system can bring, while as the same time providing a comfortable user experience, allowing you to get the most out of your computing time. With PC-BSD you can spend less time working to fix viruses or spyware and instead have the computer work for you. [Less]

Ark Linux

Ark Linux is a Linux distribution for everyone - designed to be easy to install and learn for users without prior Linux (or computer) experience, while powerful enough for longtime Linux users. Ark Linux is based on KDE desktop environment.

loper

Because Computing Doesn't Have to Suck.Conceptual elegance, simplicity, and hackability are not inevitable casualties of progress. Goals include full reflectivity, introspection, orthogonal persistence (single address space), and full utilization of the new X86-64 architecture's ... [More] capabilities. Most (and eventually all) of Loper will be (re)developed from within Loper. Yet another attempt at Lisp Machine resurrection?Much more than that. A central purpose of the project is to shed certain absurdities that computer users have been putting up with for so long that they are now seen as inevitable: file systems; the distinction between code and data; multiple address spaces; (including the disk/RAM dichotomy) the storage of source code as raw ASCII text; and, last but not least, the "compile/pray/debug" cycle. In the list of goals, playing nice with legacy-anything is dead last. Let's find out what a clean break with the past quarter-century could get us. There will be very little detailed talk of planned features because there remains a very, very long way to go. Talk is cheap. Caveat:Please don't expect to find a working operating system here any time soon! Save yourself the disappointment of clicking the svn view link! If this message ever goes away, begin to be excited. Reading List for the Excited, Disgusted, or the Merely Curious:Why Lisp matters. Why Lisp Machines were and remain important. Why Lisp remains obscure. Rob Pike: Why Systems Software Research has become Irrelevant. Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (video) [Less]

crutchix

The crutch operating system for the x86-64 and eventually z80. Features multitasking ,GUI, etc.