Gnoppix Linux 1.0

One CD £2.50

Gnoppix is a Linux Live CD based upon the popular Ubuntu distribution. It is similar to Knoppix but Gnoppix uses GNOME as its desktop environment.

For further information see the project website.

Gparted Live CD

One CD £2.00

This astonishing little CD boots a full 2.6 kernel and then runs Gparted, the GNOME Partition Editor. This allows you to not only edit a hard disk's partition table, but also to grow and shrink existing file systems, include Linux ext2, ext3 and reiserfs, and Windows NTFS and FAT32. Here is the project website.

Knoppix 5.1.1 Live CD

One CD £2.00

This is a quite astoundingly clever product.  A single CD of Linux which you simply boot on your PC to be presented with a full graphical desktop, networking, sound, the lot (subject to suitable hardware).  No installation is necessary.  Excellent for demonstrating Linux or just testing how well the hardware in a given PC is supported.

For further information see the project website.

The Knoppix CD also carries a script to allow installation to a hard disc.  Once Knoppix is up and running you just invoke the script and everything is copied over.  You then have an installed and fully configured Debian desktop system - Knoppix is based on Debian.  The Debian CDs can be used to add packages to a system installed using the Knoppix CD, giving you an easy and fast path to a full Debian system.

Knoppix 5.1.1 Live DVD

One DVD-R £4.00

This is the Knoppix DVD Maxi edition with "everything that's useful and exciting in GNU/Linux (including more supported languages)". It has over 2700 packages on it. Since version 4.0, Knoppix has been split into the DVD Maxi edition and the "Light" CD edition.

Linux from Scratch 6.1.1 Live CD

For x86 For ppc

One CD £2.00

This CD carries a copy of the Linux from Scratch book and also the packages and patches required.

This CD is not an installation or live CD like most other distributions. You can't boot from it and just install a full Linux distribution. The book (included in electronic form) is a guide to creating your own customised Linux distribution and all (or most, depending on your choice) of the required files are included on the CD.

The CD is a live CD, and you can boot to it. Although it can be used as a rescue CD, its main purpose is to provide a convenient launchpad to build your own distribution. Earlier versions of Linux from Scratch relied on being run from an existing (non-LFS) GNU/Linux system, and sometimes this did not provide an ideal platform.

Initially, building your own system from LFS is a lot more work than installing a conventional distribution, but it has a number of plus points:

• LFS will teach you how a GNU/Linux system works internally
• You can build a very compact LFS system
• LFS is very flexible, you can produce eactly what you want
• You can create a very secure system

See What is Linux from Scratch? for more information.

MandrakeMove (Beta)

One CD £3.00

This a a standalone distro, based on Mandrake 9.2. This version does not allow you to use USB key (flash pen) for storage like the boxed set version does. MandrakeMove currently supports five languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Hardware requirements:

• x86 processor (Intel Pentium II/III/IV, AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP and all compatible processors)
• Memory: 128 MB SDRAM (256 recommended)
• 32x or faster cdrom recommended
• A hard drive is not required for MandrakeMove.

NetBSD Live CD

One CD £2.00