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During LinuxTag 2004 the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the company credativ unveiled the Linux Government Desktop. The Linux Goverment Desktop has been developed within the scope of the project ERPOSS which evaluates Open Source Software in government environments. Composed entirely of free software the distribution was available as a live CD as well as an install CD. One of the highlights brought by the Government Desktop was the fact that it saves the whole data on encrypted filesystems. Furthermore KMail was preconfigured to send and receive encrypted e-mail (GnuPG and S/MIME) and to make use of all kinds of authority certificates. The package was completed by integrated spam and virus protection and a preconfigured personal firewall.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2004-11-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.6.2 |
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A new version of the Feather Linux mini live CD has been released. From the changelog: "Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2: added 'wakeonlan', a tool to send Wake-on-LAN packets; included a custom resolution option in the X setup script; made some small MPlayer changes; updated aMSN script to 0.94; lowered memory usage slightly by a few changes; cleaned up /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig; made it possible to add users while running from CD or USB stick; made hard disk boot faster; updated Arno's firewall script to version 1.8.3-BE." Download: feather-0.6.2.iso (61.6MB); a BitTorrent tracker is also available.
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| About Feather
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| Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 128MB of space. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day on their desktop.
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| 2005-02-28 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.4 |
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A new version of Feather Linux is out. From the changelog: "Added Rhapsody, didiwiki, xfsprogs, torsmo, gnupod and GRUB; added several Perl modules, including GTK2-Perl; replaced Thunderbird with Sylpheed; replaced zile and nvi with vim; replaced emelfm2 with emelfm; removed Ruby due to space constraints; removed XPaint due to lack of usefulness; updated several packages, including Dillo, MPlayer, ALSA and libc6; updated tmsnc to 0.2.0b; made some small changes to the hard disk install script; made some small changes to rm-dpkg; made Kismet configuration files writable from CD; added a new experimental hard disk install script (based on knoppix-installer by Fabian Franz)." Download: feather-0.7.4.iso (119MB).
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| 2005-02-13 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.3 |
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Feather Linux 0.7.3 has been released. From the changelog: "Added John the Ripper, macchanger, kismet, tcl8.4, qemu, paketto, abcde and screen; updated Monkey to 0.9.0; updated the hard disk install script; updated the usbutils package; upgraded kernel to 2.4.27; updated the quickcam, prism54, ipw2100 and madwifi drivers; updated ndiswrapper to 1.1rc1 and added the airo-mpi driver; updated modutils to 2.4.27; added BCM4400 and BCM5700 drivers; added pencam, a utility to download images from STV0680B-001 chip-based digital cameras; changed boot process so important configuration files can be overwritten by user restore images; added FreeNX; added script to easily create icons (Tools -> Scripts)." Download: feather-0.7.3.iso (122MB).
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| 2005-01-30 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.2 |
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Feather Linux 0.7.2 has been released. From the changelog: "Added mtools, emelfm2, vncdec, elhttp, quagga, and Captive NTFS; updated aircrack; added ion2 - boot with 'knoppix ion2' to use it; fixed IceWM; fixed wman; added script to download the Distributed.net client; DMA can now be activated with the 'dma' cheatcode; added 'custom-noram' boot option so that custom packages can be loaded without significant RAM usage; Feather now includes the 'readahead' cheatcode to load files into the disk cache at boot - this speeds up general operation when the user has 384MB of RAM or more; made some small changes to the USB boot process; added script to download practically everything needed for web development." Download: feather-0.7.2.iso (113MB).
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| 2005-01-01 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7.1 |
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Happy a prosperous New Year to all visitors of DistroWatch! The first release of 2005 belongs to the Feather Linux project, which has just announced version 0.7.1. From the changelog: "Included aterm, a terminal supporting transparency and other features; added the Ruby scripting language; added rcrack (a hash cracker), sil (a banner grabber), nbtstat and dsniff; added giFTcurs; added cdparanoia; added elinks, a text-only browser; updated many system-based packages to those from KNOPPIX 3.7; added option to feather-hdinstall to add custom options on the LILO append line; added a new soundcard configuration tool if the other fails, which can be found in Tools -> Scripts; made some small changes to rm-dpkg; fixed Opera, Java and Flash scripts...." Download: feather-0.7.1.iso (102MB).
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| 2004-12-26 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.7 |
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A new major upgrade to Feather Linux has been released. From the changelog: "Feather is now bound by a 128MB limit instead of a 64MB one; added Firefox, Thunderbird, AbiWord, Ethereal, GAIM, rox-filer, MPlayer, IceWM, Siag Office, Imposter, wmDrawer and fireFTP; updated tmsnc to 0.1.4, ndiswrapper to 0.12, Fluxbox to 0.9.10, Dillo to 0.8.3, OpenOffice.org script to 1.1.3; updated Java script; added xls2csv, a program to convert Excel files into CSV spreadsheets; added script to download and install LT modem drivers; added script to configure ndiswrapper; added webcam support (this includes webcamd and xawtv); removed Mutella and links-hacked." Download: feather-0.7.iso (103MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2004-10-26 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.6.1 |
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Feather Linux 0.6.1 has been released. From the changelog: "Fixed pon and poff; updated aMSN script to 0.93; changed user in emelfm fpkg link to root; added 1400x1050 to list of available resolutions for certain laptops; changed user in mount.app mount command; tweaked knoppix-autoconfig and feather-loadram.sh; added openvpn - a tool to access VPNs; added tmsnc - a very usable text-based MSN client; made some space-saving changes to rm-dpkg; easy 'remaster' script can now save to hard drive instead of using RAM." Download: feather-0.6.1.iso (61.6MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2004-10-11 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.6.0 |
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A new release of Feather Linux is out. From the changelog: "Added Elmo, a text-based email client; updated Sylpheed; fixed fsck.reiserfs bug; changed some Fluxbox settings; added Ndiswrapper configuration script; updated Opera to 7.54; added curl; added live 'remaster' feature - simply load Feather into RAM, and this script will create your own Feather 'remaster' based on your current customisations; fixed the IceWM script; made some changes to rm-dpkg; changed Firefox icon." Download: feather-0.6.0.iso (61.6MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2004-09-19 |
Distribution Release: Feather Linux 0.5.9 |
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Feather Linux 0.5.9 has been released. What's new? "Changes from 0.5.8 to 0.5.9: added wmapm again; now both APM and ACPI dockapps are included; added reiserfsck; made dnsmasq.conf writable; reverted USB boot to previous settings - users whose systems cannot boot Feather will need minirt24.gz; included madwifi v.20040308; added new penguin background - use the 'notux' option to use a normal one." See the full changelog for details. Download: feather-0.5.9.iso (61.9MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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