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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.