This is a selection of projects (in alphabetical order) that are using Debian Live technologies.
Amnesic Incognito is aimed at preserving your privacy and anonymity. All outgoing connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network, and no trace is left on local storage devices unless explicitely asked.
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Canaima aims to be specifically designed for office users in the Venezuelan national government, as a response to a presidential decree that prioritizes the use of free technologies and determines a transition process.
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Canonical provides custom development services to help companies benefit from the power of Linux. Canonical's developers undertake development projects ranging from customising Ubuntu and full product life-cycle software development to providing embedded systems and architectural ports.
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Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead.
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CrunchBang offers a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window manager, it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured system without sacrificing performance.
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The goal of the Debian Eee PC project is full support for the ASUS Eee PC in Debian.
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The Debian KDE team prepares live systems to allow users to try the latest KDE versions without any risk to their existing installation.
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debtailor tries to configure and maintain a distribution using only debian tools (debian-live, git-buildpackage, mini-buildd), git, config-packages (packages that configures other debian packages), and to release the code in a distributed and decentralized way using a script (ikisync) with ikiwiki.
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Django Live is a live system to ease the setup, hosting and testing of applications based on the Dijango Web framework.
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DoudouLinux is a computer environment designed for children that is as simple to use as a gaming console. It provides educational games, art oriented applications (drawing, music), work oriented applications and fun games. Reading is not required for use and DoudouLinux is so simple that children can use it from 2 years old and quickly become autonomous. As a result children think that they are only playing while they are also learning many skills.
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The Educational Linux System (Edix) is a live system designed to boot from USB and provide instructors, trainers, and teachers with a ready to go solution providing classroom software support scaling from one learner to an entire school or district.
While technically an Operating System the Edix system provides its real value as a system of operation using the software supplied as a means to organize, document, and provide professional training to learners at a distance or in the classroom.
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FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures and clusters.
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Flujos-vivos is a live system for making internet radio with free software oriented towards radio enthusiasts in Latin America.
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Gibraltar Security Gateways provides protection against a multitude of current security risks and threats. They combine several important security applications into one product and provide for secure connections in your network. Gibraltar is either available preinstalled on five different hardware appliances or just as a software release.
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GNUGuitarINUX is a lightweight distribution for guitar players. It is configured to obtain the best performance with the smallest possible latency. GNUGuitarINUX has several dedicated programs but rakarrack is its main target.
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GNUSTEP contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework.
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GParted Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 machine. It enables you to use all the features of the latest versions of GParted.
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Grml includes a collection of software especially for system administrators and users of texttools. Grml can be used (for example) as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment.
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Inquisitor is a hardware testing and certification system, suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and available in both serverless Live CD/DVD format and server-controlled network boot production system.
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io GNU/Linux is a live system that turns almost any computer into a professional multimedia workstation. It includes a real-time enabled kernel and a great collection of free software for all uses (sound, video, graphics, internet and more).
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Jumpshot is a fully automated solution for solving PC frustration. Launch the app and enjoy an elegant interface and secure web surfing while it works the magic in the background.
Jumpshot is remarkable in three major ways:
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Kali Linux formerly known as BackTrack Linux is a distribution for penetration testing and security auditing.
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Knoppel is developed for Greek Users. It's main goal is to offer a Debian system with a selected list of packages all translated in Greek.
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The lernstick distribution contains educational programs, multimedia software, a complete office package, games, programs for digital picture editing, Internet applications and has space for personal data.
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Linaro brings together the open source community and the electronics industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions and stacks to land on.
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LinuxAdvanced contains a lot of software for educational purposes.
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Musix is a free Multimedia Operating System for musicians, technical sound, DJs, graphic designers, and users in general.
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NeuroDebian is a project aiming at making Debian an ideal versatile platform for the neuroscience research needs. Besides providing a repository with backports of most recent releases of neuroscience-related software, NeuroDebian approaches universal availability of Debian across different platforms by providing Virtual Appliances and Live-Debian images.
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OpenMediaVault is a network attached storage (NAS) solution. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, AFS, UPnP media server, DAAP media server, RSync, DDNS, BitTorrent client and many more.
Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.
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PelicanHPC lets you set up a high performance computing cluster in a few minutes. A Pelican cluster allows you to do parallel computing using MPI. Pelican can be run on a single multiple core machine to use all cores to solve a problem, or multiple computers can be used together to form a cluster.
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Privatix is focusing on privacy and encryption. It ensures your privacy and confidentiality while using the internet and communicating or editing and encrypting sensitive data.
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Progress Linux is a derivative focused on system integration.
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Puredyne is aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic, audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from sound art to innovative filmmaking.
Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high responsiveness needed by artists working in this field.
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Raizo is a live system used by the CFA UTEC (Centre de Formation d'Apprentis de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie; training center of the chamber of commerce) in Seine et Marne, France, during the course of networking and Linux administration.
It contains NetKit, Visual NetKit and GNS3. GNS3 is provided without any IOS but with 2 scripts (gstart and ghalt) to use GNS3 with NetKit. Raizo includes Wireshark, aircrack-ng, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, SSH. No service is starting automatically and the interface and documentation are mostly in French.
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Rescatux is a rescue system with Rescapp, a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue tasks.
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Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release. Ubuntu ships with the latest GNOME and KDE releases as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD.
Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd.
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Voyage is best run on a x86 embedded platforms such as PC Engines ALIX/WRAP and Soekris 45xx/48xx boards.
It can also run on low-end x86 PC platforms. Typical installation requires 128MB disk space, although larger storage allows more packages to be installed. Voyage Linux is so small that it is best suitable for running a full-feature firewall, wireless access point, VoIP gateway and network storage device.
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Vyatta is a software-based network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. By deploying Vyatta, users benefit from a flexible enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.
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Webconverger is a minimalistic browser-only system designed to be used solely for accessing Web applications. It does not have high system requirements and will also run on older machines.
Webconverger runs the Iceweasel web browser with a customised window manager dwm and Firefox add-on that locks the browser to a simple kiosk operation mode. The browser runs in full screen mode with all menus, toolbars, key commands and most right button menus disabled. Webconverger contains Adobe Flash support and PDF viewing by default. Both wired and wireless networks are supported via DHCP. There is also support for internationalization, including CJK input methods.
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The Window Make Live CD applies the Window Maker window manager as default graphical user interface, and successfully manages to integrate well known standard open source components in a very attractive and usable user interface.
This is of special interest for users, who are not really happy with the recent graphic user interface developments of the more commonly applied Linux distributions. As Window Maker provides a very good balance between usability and a light interface, there is no reason to bother with the overhead of a full blown desktop environment.
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XBMC Media Center (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a multimedia player/jukebox application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox. It can be used to play or view most common video, audio, and picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, and GIF directly from a CD or DVD in the Xbox DVD-ROM drive or from the Xbox hard drive. XBMC can also stream files over a local network or from the Internet. Playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast, and many audio visualizations are also included.
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The Xen Live CD brings together several features and attempts to show many different situations, as far as possible, in a clear and functional way. For example, different architectures of the Hypervisor, pre-configured virtual machines with different kernel of dom0, virtual framebuffer enabled for virtual work stations, extra examples with SDL console enabled, demonstration of conversion between machines HVM / PVM, several methods of how to make a virtual hard disk, among many other examples of what can be done with Xen.
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The Xorcom Rapid Live system is an Asterisk based PBX.
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