Houdinix 0.1 review
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Houdinix is a GNU/Linux live-cd made for young computer science students of our university, it's a simple and user-friendly distribution, containing all tools needed by a beginner.
It contains more than 2 gigabytes of data (on a single 700Mb CD), and can be installed very easily on a local hard drive with our installer, Houdinstall.
Here are some key features of "Houdinix":
Kernel 2.4.24houdinix.
Compressed file system Squashfs: 2.4Gb of data.
KDE 3.2 graphic environment.
Compilers and interpreters for the followings languages : Basic, C, C++, Caml (ocaml), Cobol, Delphi, Fortran, Guile, Java (JDK1.4.2), Lisp (GNU clisp), Pascal, Perl (modules Gtk, Tk, Mail, ...), Prolog (gplc, gprolog), Python, Scheme (umb-scheme), Smalltalk, Tcl.
Scientific tools : gnuplot, scilab, mupad.
OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Gimp 2
Network support and tools : telnet, ssh, nmap, nslookup, etc...
Internet tools : Firefox, Thunderbird, Kmail, Kopete, Konqueror, etc...
File systems recognized on local disks: ext2, ext3, vfat, iso9660 (ro), squashfs (ro), jfs, minix, ufs, reiserfs, ntfs (ro).
Installation on hard disk with Houdinstall.
Swap detection with our software Houdiswap.
Requirements:
400Mhz Intel compatible CPU.
64Mb of RAM.
A bootable CD-ROM drive, (>8x).
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