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Old 12th May 2012
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Along the lines of Security Focused Live CD a new offering from Russia.
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System

Kernel: Hardened Gentoo 3.2.11 with grsecurity/PaX + Unionfs
System requirements: x86 Pentium Ⅲ+ with PAE, ≈192 MiB RAM, ≈210 MiB on bootable removable media (USB key, SD card, …)
Laptop Mode Tools handle power management; hard disks are switched to quiet acoustic mode and spun down
Extensive Ethernet and Wi-Fi network devices support
Extensive autoconfiguration, including X server and audio mixer channels setup
Smooth integration as a VirtualBox (including clipboard), VMWare, QEMU guest
NetworkManager manages Internet connectivity, with PPTP / OpenVPN / Cisco VPN support
Static and removable devices are available via udev+AutoFS-based automounting (includes VirtualBox and VMware shares)
No user interaction is required during boot, except for OTFE password entry
User's important configuration changes are archived to OTFE encrypted volume upon shutdown
Applications are preconfigured and ready to use

Applications

Fully modular X server, with TrueType-only fonts for all uim-supported languages
LXDE- and GTK-based desktop with lightweight applications: no GNOME/KDE libraries
Multilingualization using uim: all input languages that are supported by m17n-lib, native Japanese support with anthy, and Florence virtual keyboard
Application-level UI internationalization: all unicode locales are available; locale, timezone and keyboard layout are easily switched with a custom tool
Basic: LXPanel, Openbox, PCManFM / emelFM2, FileRoller, Sakura / LXTerminal
Editors/Viewers: gedit, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Evince (with DjVu support) / ePDFView, FBReader
Internet: Epiphany (with HTML5 video), Claws Mail (with integrated cables communication), XChat (with SASL), Pidgin (with OTR), gFTP, uGet
Audio/Video: Totem, Audacious, Geeqie / GPicView, GraphicsMagick, Cdrtools, Speex audio clips encoding custom tool
Extras: GNU Privacy Assistant, Figaro's Password Manager 2, Qalculate!