Feather Linux is a Linux distribution based on
Knoppix 3.4 that can fit on a Mini-CD or on a 128 MB USB pen drive. It aims to have a wide range of applications for desktop, rescue, and administration uses.
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Rhapsody, didiwiki, xfsprogs, torsmo, gnupod, GRUB, and several Perl modules were added. Sylpheed replaced Thunderbird, Vim replaced zile and nvi, and emelfm replaced emelfm2. Ruby and XPaint were removed, and many packages were updated. Some small changes to the HD install script and rm-dpkg were made, and Kismet configuration files are now writable from the CD. A new experimental HD install script was also added.
The kernel was upgraded to version 2.4.27, thus incorporating SATA support, and various kernel modules and wireless drivers were updated. FreeNX, John the Ripper, kismet, Tcl 8.4, qemu, abcde, screen, the paketto package, and macchanger were added. The Monkey webserver was updated to version 0.9.0, and software for STV0680B-based digital cameras was added.
Feather is now around 115 Mb. Mtools, emelfm2,
vncdec, elhttp, quagga, ion2, and Captive NTFS
have been included. aircrack has been updated.
IceWM and wman have been fixed. The dma,
readahead, and custom-noram cheatcodes have been
added. Scripts to download a Web development
environment and the Distributed.net client have
also been included.
Wakeonlan, a tool to send Wake-on-LAN packets, has been included, and
aMSN and Arno's firewall script have been updated. A custom resolution
option has been added, memory usage and hard drive boot time have been
reduced slightly, and some small changes have been made to mplayer. It
has been made possible to add users while running from a CD.
