MostlyLinux, SkatOS and Momonga Linux

This week we will take a look at three distributions that have been around for a while, but are new to the LWN Distributions List.

MostlyLinux is a software company based in Jharkhand, India. The company does mostly the same things other Linux companies do including Enterprise support, corporate training and custom distributions. They also are building a distribution called MostlyLinux. MostlyLinux 9.1 is the latest offering. The distribution is based on Fedora core 1 with lots of additional software.

MostlyLinux chooses packages based on functionality, without the licensing concerns that have kept some of these packages out of Fedora. This is not a system for free software purists. MostlyLinux 9.1 contains a kernel with XFS and NTFS support; it includes multimedia applications like Mplayer, Ogle and Xine; a full suite of packages from LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project); and more. A list of available packages can be found here.

SkatOS was found earlier this week while looking for Xwoaf (X Windows on a Floppy). A current home page for Xwoaf could not be found, but there is a reference to it from the SkatOS home page. SkatOS is a bootable stand alone XSkat card playing system that fits on either one single floppy disk or one ElTorito-boot CD. It features full network client/server support so you can play Skat over LAN with your friends. SkatOS version 1.0 runs XSkat 4.0 based on BusyBox 0.60.5, uClibc 0.9.24 and TinyX 2.2.1 with kernel 2.2.26. Version 1.0 was released August 8, 2004.

Momonga Linux is the successor to Kondara Linux. A Momonga (aka Pteromys momonga) is a flying squirrel found both in Europe and Asia. It's an animal known for a self-asserting behaviour, despite its small size. The Momonga Project, like the momonga, is small and not well-known, but assertive. This general purpose distribution is developed mostly by Japanese programmers, but it supports English just as well and the Momonga web site provides English content, together with English-language mailing lists. Momonga supports eight different Japanese input method servers, a selection of which is available directly from the GDM login screen. Ruby is the scripting language of choice for the project which seeks to be a distribution developed by and for its own users, compatible with next-generation standards, with comprehensive documentation. The first stable version of Momonga Linux was released earlier this month.

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