Kiwi Linux

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Kiwi is an Ubuntu derivative tailored for Romanian and Hungarian users.

Kiwi is a modified Ubuntu live CD for the i386 architecture. It includes Romanian and Hungarian localization, multimedia codecs, encrypted DVD support, Flash plugin for Firefox, PPPoE GUI for accessing local internet services (Clicknet and RDS).

The latest release, Kiwi 8.04 is based on Ubuntu 8.04. Differences from Ubuntu include replacing Evolution with Thunderbird, Rhythmbox with Audacious and dropping Ekiga. Support for languages other than English, Romanian and Hungarian, German and French is not included on the CD.

Kiwi uses the same software repositories as Ubuntu with one additional source added for the handful of artwork related or slightly modified packages. Hence it is easy to switch to and from Ubuntu and all the security and bugfix updates from Ubuntu are getting into Kiwi automatically.

The packages are hosted and built in the Kiwilinux team's Launchpad PPA. The main archive is a mirrored and GPG-signed copy of this and can be enabled by adding this line to your apt sources: deb http://kiwilinux.org/archive hardy main. Medibuntu repositories are enabled by default as well.

The web site is here:http://kiwilinux.org/kiwi/en/index.html