Zplinux is free to use, install and download.
It is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 9.04 (which is based on Debian).
The goals are to provide a free modern operating system useable in live, installable on hard disk easily and upgradeable.
The main difference with the standard Ubuntu is the set of software provided out of the box and customizations here and there.
It has been generated from an Ubuntu minimal image in a virtual machine (Virtual Box) with remastersys tools.
Some features:
- Based on Ubuntu 9.04 minimal
- Netbook supported out of the box (at least my asus eee pc 901)
- Nvidia (173) and ati acceleration supported out of the box (installed on the fly from startup scripts)
- Bluetooth remote support (j2me mobile phone with anyremote and nintendo wiimote with wminput)
- Htpc ready (with Moovida)
- English, french, hebrew and russian keyboard layout out of the box
- Linux kernel 2.6.28-15, kde 4.2, firefox 3.5, virtual box 3.04, wine 1.1.28, vlc, mplayer, abiword, gnumeric, amsn, skype, amule, utorrent, lot of emulators...
- Open office, eclipse 3.5, urban terror, ... (in DVD deluxe edition)
- Live system (created with remastersys), easily installable (with ubuntu ubiquity), runable in Virtual box, Qemu or Vmware environment