Debris Linux For Linux

Debris Linux is an open source, minimal, low on resources and clean distribution of Linux derived from the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu, and built around the GNOME desktop manager and the Openbox window manager. It is a desktop-oriented operating system suitable for computers from 10+ years ago.

The distro is available for download as a dual-arch Live CD ISO image, which means that it can boot on computers supporting either of the 64-bit (x86_64) or 32-bit (x86) instruction set architecture. It has approximately 200MB in size and can be written to either a CD disc or a USB flash drive of 512MB or higher capacity.

Debris Linux features a complex Live CD boot menu that instructs users to press the C key and enter the cat /bc command for a list of boot cheats. The menu is scrollable and allows the user to run the live system with the Aeryn desktop environment, which comprised of GNOME and Openbox, a lightweight session powered only by the Openbox window manager or a traditional session with GNOME and Metacity. All three boot entries can be ran with a specific screen resolution.

Among the pre-installed applications, we can mention the Mozilla Firefox web browser, AbiWord word processor with support for importing and exporting ODF and PDF files, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor with ODF import/export support, Evolution email, groupware and PIM (Personal Information Manager) client and Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger.

The Audacious audio player, gFTP file transfer client, GParted partition editor, NDISwrapper Microsoft Wireless driver manager, ePDFViewer document viewer, GQView image viewer, Leafpad text editor, Firestarter firewall manager, NetworkManager network connections manager are also installed.