Austrumi is a bootable live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware. It’s maintained by a group of programmers from the Latgale region of Latvia.
The entire operating system and all the applications run from RAM, making Austrumi faster than larger distributions that read from a disk and allows the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has started.
Features include:
- 3D support for ATI, NVIDIA and Intel video cards.
- Contains all necessary basic programs for work and entertainment.
- The modern user interface into Latvian, Russian, English, Greek and other languages.
- Simple boot from CD, flash drive or HDD.
- It is fitted out for the servers and workstations.
At the time of publishing this article, the project’s website doesn’t offer easy access to download the ISOs. They are available at https://ftp.linux.edu.lv/austrumi/
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | FVWM |
| Init Software: | SysV |
| Package Management: | slapt-get |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni |
| Developer: | Andrejs Meinerts |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distros which is currently under development. |
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