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➨ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html<br />

A.4. Linux Mint<br />

Linux Mint is a (partly) community-maintained distribution, supported by donations and advertisements.<br />

Their flagship product is based on Ubuntu, but they also provide a “Linux Mint<br />

Debian Edition” variant that evolves continuously (as it's based on Debian Testing). In both<br />

cases, the initial installation involves booting a LiveDVD.<br />

The distribution aims at simplifying access to advanced technologies, and provides specific<br />

graphical user interfaces on top of the usual software. For instance, even though Linux Mint<br />

relies on GNOME, it provides a different menu system; similarly, the package management interface,<br />

although based on APT, provides a specific interface with an evaluation of the risk from<br />

each package update.<br />

Linux Mint includes a large amount of proprietary software so as to ensure the best possible<br />

user experience. For example: Adobe Flash and multimedia codecs.<br />

➨ http://www.linuxmint.com/<br />

A.5. SimplyME<strong>PI</strong>S<br />

SimplyME<strong>PI</strong>S is a commercial distribution very similar to Knoppix. It provides a turn-key Linux<br />

system from a LiveCD, and includes a number of non-free software packages: device drivers for<br />

nVidia video cards, Flash for animations embedded in many websites, RealPlayer, Sun's Java,<br />

and so on. The goal is to provide a 100 % working system out of the box. Mepis is internationalized<br />

and handles many languages.<br />

➨ http://www.mepis.org/<br />

This distribution was originally based on Debian; it went to Ubuntu for a while, then came back<br />

to Debian, which allows its developers to focus on adding features without having to stabilize<br />

packages coming from Debian's Unstable distribution.<br />

A.6. Aptosid (Formerly Sidux)<br />

This community-based distribution tracks the changes in Debian Sid (Unstable) — hence its name<br />

— and tries to release 4 new versions each year. The modifications are limited in scope: the goal<br />

is to provide the most recent software and to update drivers for the most recent hardware, while<br />

still allowing users to switch back to the official Debian distribution at any time.<br />

➨ http://aptosid.com<br />

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