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ArtistX is an italian distro oriented towards multimedia production and edition –graphics in two or three dimensions, audio, music, video, animations, the whole nine yard –based on Debian’s LiveDVD.

The new version 0.4 uses the 2.6.22 kernel (tickless, new WiFi modules) and is available in two LiveDVDs, one for use with Gnome 2.20 and another one for use with KDE 3.5.7. It includes 2500 free software apps designed for artistic and multimedia production and, most notably, a Powua client –Powua is a service offering acceess to an internet distributed super computer from anyplace where there’s an internet connection. The idea is: if you face a very demanding process which will take a lot of your time and your processors’ power, such as an animation rendering, you can upload it to Powua, have it done there, and then get the final product without using too much of your own time and resources.

This Linux distro is available, as noted, in two LiveDVDs, one for each desktop environment which you can try and download from the link in the official ArtistX webpage.