Ubuntu is a fork of Debian. Its main goal is to make easy to use Linux desktop. It provides stylish and intuitive user interface called Unity. All of the editions of Ubuntu share common infrastructure and software, making Ubuntu a unique platform that scales from consumer electronics to the desktop, and into the cloud for enterprise computing. It comes installed with a wide range of software. It supports 32 bit and 64 bit architecture.

Ubuntu - Operating System

Peppermint is a Linux based Operating System that is Cloud / Web Application Centric, Sleek, User Friendly and Insanely Fast. Peppermint was designed for enhanced mobility, efficiency and ease of use. While other operating systems are taking 10 minutes to load, you are already connected, communicating and getting things done. And, unlike other operating systems, Peppermint is ready to use out of the box. Peppermint OS is under 512MB and easy to run as a Live CD or USB. Loads and Shuts down in Seconds. It was designed to be easy on your processor and system resources. The default Cloud Applications are simply included. The default desktop environment for Peppermint is LXDE (literally, “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment”) which has shown itself time and again to be user friendly, easy on the eyes, and wicked fast.

Peppermint OS is a fork of Lubuntu. Peppermint is a Linux based Operating System that is Cloud / Web Application Centric, Sleek, User Friendly and Insanely Fast. Peppermint was designed for enhanced mobility, efficiency and ease of use. While other operating systems are taking 10 minutes to load, you are already connected, communicating and getting things done. And, unlike other operating systems, Peppermint is ready to use out of the box.

PeppermintOS - Linux based OS for Cloud

Distro Astro has features for almost all astronomy use—from observatories, planetariums, and professional researchers, to astrophotographers and amateur enthusiasts. The INDI Library built into Distro Astro provides telescope control for the most common telescopes from Meade, Celestron, Orion, and other major telescope brands. Nightshade is an advanced planetarium software for fish-eye dome projections developed by planetarium provider Digitalis Education. 
 
Distro Astro includes tools for astrophotography. Capture software wxAstroCapture was written specifically with astronomy in mind. The distribution has preinstalled IRAF, XGTerm, XImtool, and SAOImage DS9 for reduction and analysis of astronomical data. Distro Astro contains plenty of software useful for astronomy educators. It contains event prediction software such as XEphem, AstroCC Coordinate Converter, Astronomy Lab 2, and command line tools ephem and aa.

Distro Astro has features for almost all astronomy use—from observatories, planetariums, and professional researchers, to astrophotographers and amateur enthusiasts. The INDI Library built into Distro Astro provides telescope control for the most common telescopes from Meade, Celestron, Orion, and other major telescope brands. Nightshade is an advanced planetarium software for fish-eye dome projections developed by planetarium provider Digitalis Education. 

Distro Astro - Linux Distribution for Astronomers

Chakra is a free, user-friendly and extremely powerful liveCD distribution based on the KDE Software Compilation. Chakra is by default a GTk free distribution specially made for run Qt based applications and frameworks at full performance. Its goal is to build an operating system that meets most requirements desktop users have today,

Chakra - Desktop OS

PLD is a free, RPM-based Linux distribution, aimed at the more advanced users and administrators, who accept the tradeoffs of using a system, that might require manual tweaking in exchange for much flexibility. PLD kernels are build using modules. You are free to pick which modules to load depending on hardware you want to use. It supports Easy package management, Multiple desktop environments and lot more.

PLD - PLD Linux Distribution

Akaros is an operating system designed for many-core architectures and large-scale SMP systems. Its goal is to provide better support for parallel and high-performance applications. 

Akaros - Operating System for Multi Core Architectures

Manjaro is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system. Arch itself is renowned for being an exceptionally fast, powerful, and lightweight distribution that provides access to the very latest cutting edge – and bleeding edge – software. However, Arch is also aimed at more experienced or technically-minded users. Manjaro provides all the benefits of the Arch operating system combined with a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility. 

Manjaro - User-friendly Linux Distribution 

Bodhi Linux is a Linux-based operating system based upon two things Minimalism, Enlightenment desktop. It provides you a base system that is functional but not bloated. Bodhi’s default application set takes up less than 10MB of space in total. 


Bodhi Linux - The Enlightened Linux Distribution

Devil-Linux is a CD-based Linux distribution for firewalls and routers. The goal of Devil-Linux is to have a small, customizable and secure Linux. Its main purpose is to be used as server for many applications. It doesn't have any GUI or XServer related stuff. It is mainly targeted for Sys Admin. 

 It could boot from CDROM or USB flash drive. The configuration could be saved in floppy or USB pen drive as the CDROM is read only. It has IPTables / Netfilter support connection tracking for firewalls. It does have facilty to create customized version of the Linux to suit your needs. User could add packages on their own preference. 

 Most of the code is complied using GCC. Kernel level security like chroot restrictions is provided by GRSecurity. Since graphical support is not available, the system requirement is very less. It could run loads of server related applications. 

 Devil Linux suits for Proxy Server, DNS Server, FTP Server, File Server, DHCP Server, Mail Server, HTTP Server and other server related application. Source code location: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/devil-linux/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/devil-linux/</A>

Devil-Linux is a CD-based Linux distribution for firewalls and routers. The goal of Devil-Linux is to have a small, customizable and secure Linux. It could boot from CDROM or USB flash drive. Its main purpose is to be used as server for many applications. It doesn't have any GUI or XServer related stuff. It is mainly targeted for Sys Admin.

Devil Linux - Linux for Sys Admin

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