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Porteus

Porteus

Last Update: Monday 7 May 2012 01:31 GMT


Porteus
Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD (which is no longer actively maintained), with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. The lightweight LXDE is available as an alternative desktop environment.


Porteus Summary
Distribution Porteus
Home Page http://www.porteus.org/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://www.porteus.org/forum/
Documentation http://porteus.org/docs.html
Screenshots
Download Mirrors http://www.porteus.org/distro-download.html
Bug Tracker --
Related Web Sites  
Reviews 1.1: BlogspotLinux Review (Farsi)
1.0: LWNDarkDuckBlogspot
Where To Buy OSDisc.com (sponsored link)

Recent Related News
 • 2012-05-07: Development Release: Porteus 1.2 RC2
 • 2012-02-21: Development Release: Porteus 1.2 RC1
 • 2012-01-08: Distribution Release: Porteus 1.1
 • 2011-11-22: Development Release: Porteus 1.1 RC2
 • 2011-06-23: Distribution Release: Porteus 1.0
 • 2011-05-08: Development Release: Porteus 1.0 RC2

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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the 'nautilus' and 'gnome-shell' packages. As per the Apache project's recommendations, apache 1.3.x is referred to as 'apache', while apache 2.x is referred to as 'httpd'.
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Feature 1.2-rc2 1.1 1.0
Release Date 2012/05/07 2012/01/08 2011/06/23
Price (US$) Free Free Free
CDs 1 1 1
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation -- -- --
Default Desktop Trinity, KDE, LXDE, Xfce Trinity, KDE KDE
Package Management XZ XZ XZ
Office Suite -- -- --
Processor Architecture i486, x86_64 i486, x86_64 i486, x86_64
Journaled File Systems -- -- --
Multilingual      
Asian Language Support -- -- --
Package 1.2-rc2 1.1 1.0
abiword (2.8.6) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.0.25) 1.0.24.1 1.0.24.1 1.0.24.1
ati-driver (8.961) -- -- --
banshee (2.4.0) -- -- --
bash (4.2) 4.1 4.1 4.1
bind (9.9.1) -- -- --
chromium (r138671) -- -- --
cups (1.5.3) 1.4.6 1.4.6 1.4.6
dhcp (4.2.3-P2) -- -- --
firefox (12.0) 12.0 9.0.1 4.0.1
freetype (2.4.9) 2.4.8 2.4.4 2.4.4
gcc (4.7.0) 4.5.2 4.5.2 4.5.2
gimp (2.8.0) -- -- --
glibc (2.15) 2.13 2.13 2.13
gnome-shell (3.4.1) -- -- --
gnucash (2.4.10) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.10.17) -- -- --
grub (1.99) -- -- --
gtk+ (3.4.3) 2.24.4 2.24.4 2.24.4
httpd (2.4.2) -- -- --
inkscape (0.48.3.1) -- -- --
k3b (2.0.2) -- 2.0.2 2.0.2
kdelibs (4.8.3) 4.8.3 4.7.4 4.6.4
libgnome (2.32.1) -- -- --
libreoffice (3.5.3) -- -- --
linux (3.4) 3.3.4 3.1.1 2.6.38.8
Package 1.2-rc2 1.1 1.0
lxde-common (0.5.5) 0.5.5 0.5.5 git
MesaLib (8.0.3) 7.10.2 7.10.2 7.10.2
module-init-tools (3.16) 3.12 3.12 3.12
mysql (5.5.24) -- -- --
nautilus (3.4.2) -- -- --
NVIDIA (295.53) -- -- --
openbox (3.5.0) 3.5.0 3.4.11.2 3.4.11.2
openjdk (7b147) -- -- --
openssh (6.0p1) 5.9p1 5.9p1 5.8p1
openssl (1.0.1c) 0.9.8r 0.9.8r 0.9.8r
perl (5.16.0) 5.14.0 5.12.3 5.12.3
php (5.4.3) -- -- --
pidgin (2.10.4) 2.10.3 -- --
postfix (2.9.3) -- -- --
postgresql (9.1.3) -- -- --
Python (3.2.3) 2.6.6 2.6.6 2.6.6
qt (4.8.2) 4.8.1 4.7.4 4.7.0
samba (3.6.5) 3.2.4 -- --
thunderbird (12.0.1) -- -- --
udev (182) 165 165 165
vim (7.3) -- -- --
vlc (2.0.1) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.10.0) 4.10.0 -- --
xine-lib (1.2.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (1.12.1) 1.9.5 1.9.5 1.9.5
xz (5.0.3) 5.0.2 5.0.2 5.0.2


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