“Damn Small Linux” is one of the linux distribution that is known for its light weight. This article is a prelude to my next article on How to create a Bootable USB Linux using “Universal USB Installer”.

Features of Damn Small Linux

1. Light weighted - Best for Backup Purposes. Total Size of the Distribution is less than 50 Mb.
2. Bootable from USB Linux Support
3. Bootable Live CD Support
4. Bootable inside Windows, without any additional software requirement. Works like an application.
5. Can be fully resided on RAM itself – Occupies around 128Mb.
6. Applications include – a Browser( Firefox), Word Processor (TED), Email (Sylpheed), Image Editor, Picture Viewer, Instant Messaging, VOIP, Multimedia Player and lot more required for normal usage.
7. Can be extended using MySQL.
8. Supports both Xvesa and Xfbdev – the 2 famous X Servers in Linux.

Screenshots

Damn Small Linux

DSL Booting on Windows

Download

Click here to Download Damn Small Linux

Nero for Linux

Features:

• Supports both Graphical version and the Command Line version.
• Burn CD/DVD/BluRay Disks in Linux.
• Multi – session support for burning
• Double Layer DVD support
• Bootable Disk creation.
• Full support for Audio/Video burning and editing features that were present in Nero for Windows
• Availability in both RPM and Debian Package
• Supports all major Linux distros like Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc.

Medium Type Selection

Supported Audio Decoding Formats

What I hate in Nero Linux ?

The price: 20 USD may be low when compared to the Windows version of Nero, but who prefers buying a software when they are using Linux. Take me for example, Ever Since I moved to Linux, I dint even spend a single penny for the softwares I use. Nero for Linux sounds good, but they the rate of people buying them is very less, because most of the features in Nero, like BluRay burning, Menu Editing, this – that and lot more are all covered by other softwares that are free to download and use. Nero has a good name in the burning industry, they must have considered reducing the price to some more, incase they should really pick up sales in Linux. My point of view frankly Nero for Linux is a boon for people in Video / Audio Editing Industry who are on Linux and its a joke for normal Linux users like me.

Download Links: Click here to Download Nero 4 For Linux

Price: Free to try , 20 Dollars to Buy

Many famous Instant Messengers like Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger fail to work in Linux. Also popular IMs designed for Linux like Pidgin and Kopete don’t have voice call features.

Solution:

Skype has launched a beta version of its Messenger for linux. The good news is that all features that were in the Windows version of Skype are present in the linux version too and they work like a charm. So for those who want voice call in Linux, use the beta version of Skype for linux.

Skype Login in OpenSuse 12

Contact List

Call Window - Skype

Conference Option in Skype

Download Skype for Linux

Download Skype for Windows

LiLi(Linux Live) is a freeware tool that can create bootable linux of USB drivers. The user is given with features to select his linux distribution, provide its source etc.

The tool is compatible with many popular virtualization softwares, thus making it possible for any user to try it working in windows.At present the tool supports building bootable linux from many of the widely used light weight linux. Their company has announced that it will be extended to other major linux distribution in their future versions.

LiveLinux running on Windows 7

Steps to Create a Bootable USB Linux

• Select a USB Drive (the drive must be formatted only with FAT or FAT32 partition)
• Select the source of your Linux distribution.  ( The source can be a image file or a CD/DVD, incase you dont have any linux distribution you can download one automatically with this tool.
  

  LiLi can autamatically download the linux distros

• Select the persistence, but its always recommended to have the default values.
• The Options tab can be left unchanged
• Click on Create button to complete the task
• Now the USB can be used to boot linux. ( There is an option in Mother Board called “Booting with USB”, it should be enabled)

Supported Linux Distros

• Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Xubuntu 9.10 & 9.04 Desktop CD
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10
• CentOS 5.4
• Debian Live 5.0.2 Gnome/KDE/LXDE/xFce
• Damn Small linux 4.4.10
• Puppy Linux 4.3.1
• Toutou Linux 4.1.2
• Gparted Live 0.4.6-1
• Clonezilla 1.2.2-31
• Fedora 11 (KDE / Gnome) Live CD
• Kuki 2.8
• Mint 6 & 7 Main Edition
• Crunchbang 9.04 Standard & Lite Editions
• Super OS 9.04
• any .IMG file

Download Live Linux Creator

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Operating system : Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT

FILE SIZE :8.17 M.B

License Type             : Free

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Screen shot :

VLC player portable

How many times have you searched Google map and to locate your home? Well now its time to design your own 3d model of you house. You can edit the default 2D view of your building and instead create a 3D model of your building with Google’s new software….

Google has launched its new tool “Google Building Maker” that makes it possible for the users to create their own 3D building. The tool is so well designed that you don’t need any knowledge on any 3D software or rely on you engineering skills. Even a basic computer user can create textured building using this online tool.

Google Building Maker runs completely in the Internet Browser, but requires Google Earth to be installed in the local computer –for the plugins. Good news is that it supports Mac also.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6wVtCY99E

Novells next release of OpenSuse 11.2 “Fitchte” is all set to release this November, with latest linux kernel and the support for the latest hardwares in the market.

OpenSuse 11.2

Fitchte Features

• 2.6.31 Linux Kernel

Released this September, this version of linux kernel provides new features compared to its ancestors. Some of the notable features are – Support for USB 3, CUSE & OSS proxy, IEEE 802.15.2. It also has updated its memory management in order to deliver best performance even with considerably low memory availability.

• Updated File System
  

Fitchte is packed with EXT4 filesystem. This latest file system is designed for optimal performance. One of the most important feature is that the maximum size of a single file has been increased to 2 TeraByte. This backward compatible filesystem also provides online defragmentation and multi block allocation. EXT4 supports a technique called delay allocation. With this technique, the block allocation is kept on hold until the data is actually written in the disk. Though it was introduced to increase the performance and avoid fragmentation problems, this has caused some data loss problem, especially when the system crashes before writing a data block.

• Support for the latest softwares.

Fitchte has a collection of rich built in softwares such as Open Office 3.1 and Firefox 3.5. The distro also features complete toolkits for linux development. The list of packages seemed to be the same as that of OpenSuse 11.1( but, the updated versions).

• KDE 4.3

Codenamed “Caizen” the latest KDE boasts to have fixed 10000 bugs !!! and have implemented 2000 features which were requested by the community. Any normal computer user, will find that the feature and effects of Windows are nothing when compared to this distro.

• GNOME 2.28

Although the performance of its previous release( Opensuse 11.1 with GNOME 2.24) was not up to the mark and contained lot of bugs, we can hope that Fitchte will cover overcome them, with this latest GNOME 2.28.

With all these new improvements, Fitchte is the most awaited linux distribution this season. Lets wait to find out if it was really worth the wait…

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