is a business card size (196 MB for version 2.2.9) bootable live CD

Live CD

A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive...

 Linux distribution

Linux distribution

A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...

. It is based on Slackware

Slackware

Slackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993...

. It was created and is currently being maintained by a group of programmers from Latgale

Latgale

Latgale is one of the four historical and cultural regions of Latvia recognised in the Constitution of the Latvian Republic. It is the easternmost region north of the Daugava River...

 region of Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

. As of June 2011, the latest official release of AUSTRUMI Linux is 2.2.9. The entire operating system and all the applications run from RAM, making AUSTRUMI faster than larger distros that must read from a disk, and allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has booted.

Features

• Fastest Linux distribution with 3D support for Nvidia and Intel video cards.
• Contains all necessary basic programs for work and entertainment.
• The modern user interface into Latvian, Russian, English, Italian and Greek languages.
• Simple boot from CD, flash drive
  USB flash drive
  A flash drive is a data storage device that consists of flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus interface. flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g...
  
   (pass -dousb to kernel command line to boot from live-usb) or hard disk.
• It is fitted out for servers and workstations.

It currently contains many packages including graphic editors, office suite, networking tools, Internet browsers, FTP and mail clients, multimedia packages, classic games and system tools. It used openbox

Openbox

Openbox is a free window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0 , Openbox has now been totally rewritten in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is not based upon any code from Blackbox.Openbox is designed...

 as its window manager

X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display...

 prior to release 1.2.0. In release 1.2.0 it switched over to the Enlightenment

Enlightenment (window manager)

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a stacking window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone or in conjunction with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE...

 window manager and in release 1.5.0 to the Metacity

Metacity

Metacity was the window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment until GNOME 3, where it was replaced by Mutter. The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License....

 window manager. AUSTRUMI currently uses the FVWM

FVWM

The F Virtual Window Manager is a virtual window manager for the X Window System. Originally a twm derivative, FVWM has evolved into a powerful and highly configurable environment for Unix-like systems.- History:...

 window manager.

System requirements

• CPU - Intel-compatible (Pentium II or later);
• RAM - at least 128 MB (if 128MB or less, then run boot: al nocache);
• HDD - not needed;
• CD-ROM - bootable CD-ROM drive / USB 2.0 port

See also

• Comparison of Linux Live Distros
• Lightweight Linux distribution
• List of Linux distributions that run from RAM