Libranet
Libranet is a Linux distribution based on Debian GNU / Linux. This distribution is a product based in Vancouver, Canada Libra Computer Systems Ltd.. This company developed and sold UNIX systems since 1984. A first version of Libranet was in November 1999 at debian.org by the company's owner presented. The latest version was released as Libranet 3.0 on 25 April 2005. These cost around 90USD for new users and 65 USD for those who already have demonstrated a previous version of Libranet. The previous version was 2.8.1 from the release date of version 3.0 available as software for free download.
After the sudden death of the President and founder of Libranet, Jon Danzig on June 3, 2005, his son and successor Tal Danzig was on 28 November 2005 that the development of Libranet is set.
Product
The name comes from " Libra Computer Systems " ( www.libra.com ). Libranet laid claim particularly user- friendly, to be suitable for desktop and quickly, which is now set Libranet site was reached at www.libranet.com. Libranet wanted to ensure that the features of classical distributions such as Debian and especially how easy or Mandrake (now Mandriva Linux) merge. Libranet is a member of the DCC.
Since version 3.0 Libranet has a graphical installation routine and comes with a DVD or 5 CD -ROMs. Libranets settings tool called the admin panel and similar YaST of SuSE, but uses the typical Debian Deb format for software packages that can be installed via APT, Synaptic or Gnome -apt. As file systems ext2, ext3, FAT32, and reiserfs are supported. NTFS can be read, but write access is still experimental. As kernel 2.6 is used as user interfaces and are GNOME, KDE, IceWM, XFce and Enlightenment established. Also integrated are the following browsers: Mozilla, Opera, Galeon and Konqueror. WiFi is detected and installed automatically. As it has hardware support IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, FireWire (IEEE1394), and PCMCIA.