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ChorusOS

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Web site: docs.oracle.com/cd/E19048-01/chorus5/index.html
Origin: USA
Category: workstation, embedded
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86, Motorolla 68000, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS
Based on: Mach kernel
Wikipedia: ChorusOS
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 5.1 | 2011

ChorusOS – a highly scalable and reliable embedded operating system that has established itself among top telecommunications suppliers. The ChorusOS operating system is used in public switches and PBXs, as well as within access networks, cross-connect switches, voice-mail systems, cellular base stations, web-phones, and cellular telephones.

The Sun Embedded Workshop software provides a development environment with the necessary tools to build and deploy the ChorusOS operating system on a telecommunications platform. The ChorusOS operating system is the embedded foundation for Sun’s Service-Driven Network. Offering high service availability, complete hardware and software integration, management capabilities and JavaTM technology support dedicated to telecom needs, the ChorusOS operating system allows the dynamic and cost-efficient deployment of new features and applications while maintaining the reliability and functionality of existing networks.

The ChorusOS operating system supports third-party protocol stacks, legacy applications, and applications based on real-time and Java technology, on a single hardware platform.

The ChorusOS operating system can be tuned very finely to meet the requirements of a given application or environment. The core executive component is always present in an instance of the ChorusOS operating system. Optional features are implemented as components that can be added to, or removed from, an instance of the ChorusOS operating system.

Each API function in the ChorusOS operating system is contained in one or more of the configurable components. As long as at least one of these components is configured into a given instance of the operating system, the function is available. Some library functions are independent of any specific component and are always available.

ChorusOS 5.0 runs over Solaris operating environments, and supports the following targets:
– UltraSPARC II (CP1500 and CP20x0)
– Intel x86, Pentium
– Motorola PowerPC 750 and 74×0 processor family (mpc7xx)
– Motorola PowerQUICC I (mpc8xx) and PowerQUICC II (mpc8260) microcontrollers

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NeoShine

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Web site: cs2c.com.cn
Origin: China
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GNOME
Architecture: x86
Based on: Red Hat
Wikipedia:
Media: Install CD
The last version | Released: 5.0-b21 | October 12, 2009

NeoShine Linux – a Chinese Linux distribution based on the Red Hat Linux and Fedora. The distribution was launched by the company Chinasoft Network Technology Company in Beijing, China together with Openoffice.org, and was named after this software package.

The distribution utilized the GNOME desktop environment and supported the 32-bit x86 computer architecture.

Version 2.0 was released on March 9, 2001. The latest version was 5.0 b21 and was released on October 12, 2009.

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Polippix

Polippix

Web site: polippix.org (not active)
Origin: Denmark
Category: Specialist, Privacy
Desktop environment: KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Ubuntu
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 2.1 | June 23, 2009

Polippix (The Political Linux Distribution of Denmark) – a privacy enhanced CD presented by IT-Political Associtation of Denmark. This CD demonstrates some programs that can be used to ensure privacy on the internet and to exercise your rights according to copyright laws.

Polippix is an open source and completely free distribution of Linux derived from the Kubuntu operating system and designed to be used by German-speaking users on home or office computers. It uses KDE Plasma as its default and only desktop environment.

The OS is distributed as a dual-arch Live CD ISO image of approximately 700MB in size, which fits perfectly on a CD disc. It can also be used from a USB stick and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.

Polippix 2.1 is based on Kubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” i386.

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Polippix 2.1 i386 MB.iso
md5sum: 8aa7907ef948cc875cd6f4721becb096

SparkyLinux

SparkyLinux 1 Enlightenment17

SparkyLinux 1 Fluxbox    SparkyLinux 1 WindowMaker

Web site: sparkylinux.org
Origin: Poland
Category: Desktop, Game, Multimedia, Rescue
Desktop environment: KDE, LXQt, MATE, Openbox, Xfce
Architecture: x86, x86_64, ARM
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia: SparkyLinux
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: active
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SparkyLinux – a desktop-oriented operating system based on the Debian operating system. The project offers a ready to use operating system with a set of various customized lightweight desktops to choose from.

The project was born on October, 2011 as an Ubuntu remix with Enlightenment as the default desktop having the name ue17r (Ubuntu Enlightenment17 Remix). After a few months of testing, the base system was changed to Debian and it was renamed to SparkyLinux.

The default desktop environments are LXQt (former LXDE), MATE and Xfce but users can install other desktops via ‘Sparky APTus’.

As Sparky iso image features a few proprietary packages, the ‘Sparky APTus’ provides a small tool called ‘Non-Free Remover’ which can easily uninstall all ‘contrib’ and ‘non-free’ packages from the system.

Special Editions:
– GameOver Edition, targeted to gamers. It features a large set of free and open-source games and some needed tools;
– Rescue Edition, provides a live system and a large number of applications for recovering broken operating systems;
– Multimedia for audio, video and html pages creating;

SparkyLinux is still under active development, the post is published on 10th Sparky anniversary.

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SparkyLinux 1.0 E17 Full English 1.31GB.iso
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SparkyLinux 1.0 E17 Full Polish 1.33GB.iso
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SparkyLinux 1.0 Fluxbox Lite English 655MB.iso
md5sum: 3a39413b1aa08799e2743edec80a0d84
SparkyLinux 1.0 Fluxbox Lite Polish 674MB.iso
md5sum: bac5f3460649aa440dea8310db7e0813

SparkyLinux 1.0 WindowMaker Lite English 654MB.iso
md5sum: e7f1767365e02dff6f78fe331f653a1a
SparkyLinux 1.0 WindowMaker Lite Polish 673MB.iso
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SparkyLinux all present editions/versions amd64/i686/arm
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PendriveLinux

PendriveLinux

Web site: pendrivelinux.com (not active)
Origin: unknown
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia:
Media: Live
The last version | Released: June 14, 2007

PendriveLinux – a Debian based Linux distribution, aimed to work as a live system from a flash USB disk.

The last version released in 2007.

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PendriveLinux i386 402MB.img
md5sum: 348436087786e44c6ec46cd33c59713d

ue17r

ue17r

Web site: linuxiarze.pl/ue17r-b1/
Origin: Poland
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Enlightenment
Architecture: x86
Based on: Ubuntu
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 1.0 beta3 | December 1, 2011

ue17r (Ubuntu Enlightenment17 Remix) – a Linux distribution, rather a research project or a kind of experiment than a “normal” distribution. The project was born on October, 2011 as an Ubuntu remix with Enlightenment as the default desktop having the name ue17r (Ubuntu Enlightenment17 Remix).

ue17r is a modification of Xubuntu Linux, from which the standard desktop Xfce has been removed and replaced by Enlightenment 17.
The system was compatible with the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

ue17r comes with many applications, codecs and plugins preinstalled (also closed source) which makes it easier to migrate from another non-Linux system.

Alongside of the ue7r desktop lightness and speed, it offers good functionality as well. The Live system works in English as default; other localization are available after installation on a hard drive or a virtual machine.

After a few months of testing, in 2012, the base system was changed to Debian and it was renamed to SparkyLinux.

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ue17r 1.0-beta3 i686 1GB.iso
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InvestiGateIX

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Web site: mandalka.name/investigateix/
Origin: unknown
Category: Specialist
Desktop environment: GNOME
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: Beta 18 | July 7, 2015

InvestiGateIX – a live-system for search empowering investigative journalists to setup an own open-source search engine on an encrypted external device to search in a large amount of documents, files and data for searching, overview, analysis, exploration, document discovery, text mining and document mining.

Features:
– your own internal search engine
– search in many documents and files (full text search, explorative search and interactive filters)
– analyze documents (document mining and text mining, aggregated overviews, viewer, wordlists and visualizations with wordclouds and trend charts)
– structure investigations (semantic wiki for tagging documents, annotations and structured notes and an user interface for managing named entities like persons, organizations, locations or concepts)
– automatic import of many different document formats:
– automatic text recognition (OCR) for images and graphical files like JPG or PNG, i.e. for scanned or photographed documents or for scans inside PDF
– secure: on an encrypted external device
– unhosted: works offline without need of internet or spying cloud services
– empowering journalists and activists: without need for an admin or computer specialist
— easy to setup
— easy to use
— cheep to use: one old standard pc or laptop or even a netbook is enough
– free open source software based on Debian GNU/Linux (Operating system), Apache Solr (Enterprise Search), Open Semantic Search (search engine and user interface) and Cryptsetup for dm-crypt and LUKS (disk encryption)
– extendable: Using open standards and offering a powerfull plugin interface you can write own search tools or data enrichment plugins with a few line of code

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Salvare

Salvare

Web site: salvare.sourceforge.net
Origin: United Kingdom
Category: Rescue
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 1.5.0 | October 31, 2004

Salvare – (the Latin “to rescue”) is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.

Features:
– Everything in tomsrtbt, plus…
– OpenSSH (clients & server)
– Links 2 text & graphical web browser supporting JavaScript, HTTPS and mouse control
– Security tools such as: chkrootkit, nmap and tcpdump
– apt-get: install additional software from Debian into tmpfs
– bash (rather than ash or other lightweight shells in similar projects)
– ncftp
– (Almost) complete distribution of Perl
– Sound support for playing of SoundTracker modules, MP3s etc is possible
– Ability to run entirely from RAM, unlike other “live CDs”

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Salvare 1.5.0 i486 20MB.iso
md5sum: e6659358b6477f63d6b6eaf59c3e152d

HeliOS

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Web site: (not active)
Origin: United Kingdom
Category: workstation
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: Transputer
Based on: UNIX-like
Wikipedia: HeliOS
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 1.3.1

HeliOS – an open-source, Unix-like operating system for parallel computers developed by Perihelion Software. Helios was developed by the (now defunct) company called Perihelion Ltd., mainly targeting the INMOS Transputer but later adding other CPUs like the ARM series or TMS320c4x DSPs when INMOS’ decline became clear.

Perihelion Software Limited was a United Kingdom company founded in 1986 by Dr. Tim King along with a number of colleagues who had all worked together at MetaComCo on AmigaOS and written compilers for both the Amiga and the Atari ST.

The HeliOS primary architecture is the Transputer. The transputer is a series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s, featuring integrated memory and serial communication links, intended for parallel computing.

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pdaXrom

pdaXrom

Web site: pdaxrom.org
Origin: unknown
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Linux
Wikipedia:
Media: Live
The last version | Released: 1.1.04121 | April 7, 2007

pdaXrom – the name of the team comes from a first project in 2003 – a Linux distribution for pocket personal computers (PDAs) Sharp Zaurus, which was called pdaXrom (pda + X + rom – “personal digital assistant” with “X11 graphics” in “read only memory”). The project was also used on other PDAs, developer boards, and thin clients. In 2009, a new distribution was released with support for Sony Playstation 3. Later, the new distribution was used to build thin clients.

pdaXrom is a build system for creating bootable gnu/linux images with preinstalled software. The build system is simple and easy for using. It can be used to build firmware for network routers, Internet and multimedia terminals and much more.

The main programming languages are C and C++. In embedded systems, Linux and FreeRTOS is used.

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pdaXrom 1.1.04121 x86 237MB.iso
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