Vlogcanic

The new PAIPIX GNU/Linux 7.10 release is a Debian-based distribution from this version on (it used to be based on Knoppix) developed by the Lisbon University’s College of Sciences. It’s a free distro in both senses of the word.

There’s only one edition available with each new release: an installation LiveDVD which allows to use or try the system without altering your computer and/or install it to your hard drive.

PAIPIX is aimed towards academic and educational use. It provides scientific and academic apps alongside with the more standard desktop software in order to maybe entice the users into exploring the rarer pieces of software included but also to make it fit for home and office use instead of remaining strictly an academic system.

The new release features the KDE desktop environment, kernel version 2.6.22 and OpenOffice 2.2 among many other interesting stuff.

The LiveDVD is available in a variety of download mirrors for i386 and amd64 architectures and is about 3.5 GB. More information available at the PAIPIX home page.

Today’s release (it’s rather yesterday’s but I didn’t write it up until now) is Elpicx Linux 1.1, a LiveDVD based on Knoppix and CentOS.

Now, this is not a desktop oriented distro per se nor a server. This one is meant to make you study hard.

The whole point in Elpicx is to get you ready for the Linux Professional Institute’s certification examination. It includes test simulations, study guides, excercises, reference cards, all the stuff you’d probably complain if you don’t had and wanted to shape up in order to get certified.

The LiveDVD is about 1800 MB in size and is available in two languages, German and English. More info and links to the downloadable .iso images at elpicx’s download web page.