AnikOS For Linux

AnikOS is an open source and completely free Linux kernel-based operating system built entirely from source and derived from the current Hardened Gentoo version. It’s a security-oriented distribution of Linux that tries to be as secure and usable as possible on both desktop and server systems.

Powered by a hardened Linux kernel, the AnikOS distribution is available for download as a dual-arch Live DVD ISO image that will load entirely in RAM (system memory) and runs on computers that support both the 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

The GRUB-powered boot menu of the Live DVD, which will appear immediately after booting the ISO image from the BIOS of a computer using either a DVD disc or a USB thumb drive of 2GB or higher capacity, allows you to only start the live system with the default kernel.

AnikOS features two powerful desktop environments, Cinnamon and GNOME Classic. The user can cycle between them using the session selector built into the login screen. It includes support for both English and Russian languages.

Among the pre-installed software packages, we can mention top-notch open source apps like the LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser with support for browsing the Internet anonymous through the Tor network, Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Deja Dup backup utility, Ekiga softphone, Transmission torrent downloader, PSAD intrusion detection system and IPTables log analyzer, Wine, as well as TrueCrypt data encryption tool.

Under the hood, we can notice that the distribut includes hardened Glibc and GCC packages, support for the XZ (lzma2) compression method, X.Org Server, Mesa OpenGL environment, the Boost libraries and various encryption utilities like LUKS and GPGme.