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Monday, April 30th, 2007498 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Puppy Linux is still a relative newcomer to bootable Linuxes, but it seems to have a good following and fairly active forums and development effort. Tools for configuring your network and detecting devices seem to work better in KNOPPIX derivatives, such as Damn Small Linux, at the moment. But look for these areas to improve as Puppy Linux develops. Special Purpose Bootables As people begin learning about and playing with customizing bootable Linux distributions, I believe more special-purpose distributions will begin to emerge. The eMoviX2 distribution (part of the MoviX project) is an example of a distribution geared specifically toward a particular function (in that case, playing video content that you package yourself with the distribution). Here are examples: . Gaming distributions More than 100 open source games are included on the Linux Live Game Project (http://tuxgamers.altervista.org/ llgp.php) CD. In addition to games, the distribution offers other features of interest to gamers, such as NVIDIA video drivers, an applet for choosing random games, and music players. Another distribution focusing on games is the GamesKNOPPIX distribution (http://games-knoppix.unix-ag.uni-kl.de). While the current version fits on a CD (about 700MB), a new version expected out soon will fit on a DVD. Refer to Chapter 23 for descriptions of many open source games available today. . Windows applications distribution The SLAX project (www.slax.org) which is based on Slackware, offers some good examples of special-purpose bootable Linuxes. By including WINE, DOSBox, and QEMU software, along with an easy-to-use KDE interface, SLAX KillBill offers a special Linux system designed particularly to get Windows applications running in a bootable Linux. Figure 19-4 shows an example of the SLAX KillBill desktop with the Windows WINAMP application running under WINE. The SLAX KillBill CD image is included on the CD that comes with this book. Refer to Appendix A for information on copying and burning that image to CD. Using the features just mentioned, many Windows applications can run natively, without any modification. This distribution offers a great way to try different kinds of Windows compatibility and emulation software to see if you can move your application to Linux. On the CD-ROM Cross- Reference
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