LinuxConsole

LinuxConsole is an open source Live CD/USB Linux distribution that boots fast, supports old and new graphics cards, including Nvidia, AMD and Intel, and can be easily installed next to an existing Windows operating system.

Distributed as a Live CD ISO image

LinuxConsole is an independent Linux kernel-based operating system that can be started from CD, USB stick, disk drive, or network card (PXE). While the stable version is distributed as a 32-bit Live CD ISO image, the current development version is available only for computers supporting the 64-bit hardware architecture.

Boot options

While the Live CD boot menu has been instructed to automatically start the live system in 20 seconds from the moment the user boots the ISO image from the BIOS of a computer, there are a bunch of interesting boot options available.

These include the ability to start the live environment from a USB device with persistent mode, enter a console environment, boot in rescue mode, boot in failsafe mode, perform a memory diagnostic test, as well as to apply two workaround and report bugs.

LXDE is the default desktop environment

LinuxConsole’s default graphical desktop environment is LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), which uses a standard, traditional layout comprised of a single panel located on the bottom edge of the screen, from where users can interact with running programs, access the main menu and launch apps, as well as to access essential system functions. Support for the English, Spanish and French languages is implemented.

Includes a wide variety of games

It is an easy to install Linux distribution that features various games, including OpenTTD, TuxPaint, 2H4U, BZFlag, Cultivation, Extreme Tux Racer, Neverball, XMoto, Frozen Bubble, DangerDeep, Do'SSi Zo'la, fooBillard, FreeCraft, SuperTuxKart, and Teeworlds.

Default applications include the QupZilla web browser, VLC Media Player, Audacious audio player, Xfburn CD/DVD burning software, Leafpad text editor, GPicView image viewer, PCManFM file manager, and various other useful utilities.

What is new in this release:

• All libraries and software are up to date, since 2.5 release.
• The Linux kernel for the 64 bits release is the 4.9.66, for the 32 it is 4.1.48
• The Desktop is Mate 1.18, which is light (runs with few memory) but powerfull.
• Bluetooth devices can now be managed.
• The Wireless configuration is easy to make.
• Arabic locale has been added.
• Games:
• Armagetronad
• Torcs
• SuperTux
• Supertuxkart
• Extremetuxracer
• Gcompris-qt
• Music:
• Lmms
• Hydrogen
• Multimedia:
• Vlc
• Audacity
• Audacious
• Office:
• Gimp
• Libreoffice
• Scribus
• Cups
• Abiword
• Xsane
• Internet:
• Transmission
• FileZilla
• QupZilla

What is new in version 2.5:

• 32 bits release:
• kernel 4.1.31 (LTS)
• LXDE desktop
• Runs on old (no PAE) CPU
• 64 bits release:
• kernel 4.4.19 (LTS)
• Mate 1.2 desktop
• UEFI Compliant
• Games:
• Minecraft (demo, needs downloading jar)
• Steam
• Open Arena
• Tous les jeux KDE
• Supertux
• megaglest
• freedroidRPG
• xmoto
• gcompris
• hedgewars
• neverball
• armagetronad
• aisleriot
• astromenace
• wesnoth
• torcs
• Music:
• zynaddsubfx
• qjackctl
• fluidsynth
• Multimedia:
• freetuxtv
• VLC
• audacity
• Office:
• inkscape
• gimp
• Libreoffice
• Tools:
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Skype
• Filezilla
• VirtualBox (64 bits)
• Educational software:
• tuxpaint
• langagelinotte
• guvcview
• stellarium

What is new in version 2.4:

• Chinese and Russian locales
• Forum for support
• User accounts
• Kernel 4.0.5
• Xorg 1.16.4
• Mesa 10.5.4
• Firefox and flash plugin releases are now sync from Arch Linux
• Chrome and Firefox easy install, qupzilla as default web browser
• apt-get wrapper (Ex : apt-get install pinball)
• Kdelibs (4.14.6) inside core module
• New theme

What is new in version 2.3:

• Locale support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Breton
• Kernel 3.14.26 (x86)
• x86_64 ISO is only available in "beta" release (missing multilib support)
• Xorg 1.16.2
• Mesa 10.2.9
• full package list
• Games
• Optional packages that you can install from network or disk
• apt-get install wrapper, LinuxConsole is binary compatible with many debian packages

What is new in version 2.3 Beta 3:

• Kernel 3.17.2 (64 bits) and 3.14.23 (32 bits)
• LXDE Desktop
• Network Manager, easy tool for wired and wireless network setup
• opkg package manager
• Qupzilla as default web browser
• Firefox and Chrome (install it with package manager)
• VLC
• Gcompris
• Astromenace
• Extreme Tux Racer
• Neverball
• OpenTTD
• Printing tools and drivers (Cups)
• The complete source files is here

What is new in version 2.0:

• Now LinuxConsole is build from Dibab
• The code has been rewritten from scratch
• It is very simple to build it, you don't need root access !
• You can install .deb packages (see games source list file), all binaries are build, but there is a great compatibility with Debian ones
• You will found, into this release :
• Busybox 1.21.1
• Linux Kernel 3.12.5
• Mesa 9.1.6
• Xorg 1.14.3
• Network Manager 0.9.8.6
• LXDE (git release)
• Firefox 26.0 (with a tool that get it from internet)

What is new in version 1.0.2009:

• LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 Multimedia:
• 200Mb iso, for old computers and system with few disk space (256Mb only needed for programs, system and data)
• Kernel 2.6.30.5
• Icewm + idesk + rox filer
• Firefox 3.5.3 + flash 10 + mplayer firefox plugin
• Mplayer SVN
• Xorg 7.4
• LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 CD:
• Multimedia modules
• Gnome
• Cups
• Gimp
• gcompris, foobillard, frozen bubble
• LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 DVD:
• CD modules
• ATICatalyst 9.9
• Nvidia 185.18.36
• 3D Games (openarena, warsow, torcs, ...)
• VirtualBox 3.0.6
• PlayOnLinux
• Qjackctl + ardour 2

What is new in version 1.0.2008:

• ATICatalyst 8.8, nvidia 173.14.12, ntfs-3g 1.2918 and ndiswrapper 1.53 drivers
• OpenOffice 2.4.1 is available in English, spanish deutch and french
• Virtualbox 1.5.4_OSE
• Lyx 1.3.6 and latex 3
• Scribus 1.3.3.7, Evolution 2.12.3
• Skype, Linphone, Transmission
• Gimp, Inkscape, MakeHuman
• Kino, DVD styler
• Gcompris, tuxpaint, stellarium
• Kde 3.5.9, k3b 1.0.4, koffice 1.6.3, kaffeine 0.8.2
• A set of 3D games : alienarena 2008, armagetronad, bzflag, cave9,etracer, cube foobillard,glest, neverball,torcs, termulous, Flightgear
• A set of 2D games : atanks, blobby,xboard,freeciv, freedroidRPG, frozen-bubble, ,jin,kxmame,lincity-ng,numptyphysics,stepmania,supertux,tarotClub,wesnoth,wormux
• Gnome games : gmameui,blackjack,glchess,glines,gnect,gnibbles,gnobots2,gnome-sudoku,gnometris,gnomine,gnotravex,gnotski,gtali,iagno,mahjongg,same-gnome,gtetrinet
• Wine 1.1.5
• The window manager E17 (Beta release)
• Freevo and Oxine media centers
• Music and Midi tools : Mixx, Ardour, hydrogen, Linux Multimedia Studio, AMS, Qjackctl, Rosegarden, Bristol
• Development libs and tools to build your own applications (gnome2, Kde3, OpenGL, Python, Perl)