Granular Linux is a operating system that takes you to a whole new world of Linux. The main idea behind developing Granular is to make it sure that the people using it always stay connected with their friends, colleagues and all the people they know. Through the various applications in Granular, you can surf the internet, write articles, make presentations, chat with your friends, listen to music, play games and a lot, lot more.....
The literal meaning of the word Granular in the computing world is :

"The degree of modularity of a system. More granularity implies more flexibility in customizing a system, because there are more, smaller increments (granules) from which to choose."

Some of the features that make Granular distinct from others are:

* The carefully selected set of applications make sure that you are able to do all the daily chores like web browsing, chatting, preparing reports, documents, listening to music, videos, movies and much more...
* Every care has been taken to ensure the interaction with the user in the best and most easiest possible way.
* You can customize Granular to a much greater degree. Customization support has been provided in the Granular Handbook that accompanies the cd and on the Granular Community Forums.
* The latest version of Granular comes with two desktop environments viz., KDE (default) and XFCE (new) so that you get the best of two worlds - Flexibility & Speed.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This release brings with it solid stability, out-of-the-box usefulness, great multimedia experience, support for running Windows software, and much more in the size of a CD (live CD). Features: major packages include Linux kernel 2.6.26.8, KDE 3.5.10, Enlightenment 0.16.999, Firefox 3.0.4, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KOffice 1.6.3, Compiz Fusion 0.7.6, GIMP 2.6.3 and Wine 1.0.1; our own new repository; out-of-the-box support for audio and video files (xine and MPlayer); multimedia plugins for Firefox are now pre-installed; support for running Windows applications, and games; support for multimedia keyboards and the extra laptop keys; ATI and NVIDIA drivers included....