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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot

I tried out ploplinux-4.1.2-i486-X for older Computers in Virtual Box and it is a nice looking little Distro, with a Gnome Desktop. The look and feel is much like older Fedora Live CD's. System requirements are "Intel i486 compatible processor" and "64MB of ram". I have an old P1, 166MHz with 64MB of Ram and a P3, with about 200MB of Ram. These PC's are the ones that I'm thinking of for this version of Plop. It runs great in the VM on 195MB of Ram and with a 1.8GHz Processor and Boot's very fast!:) I also downloaded and Booted the "ploplinux-4.1.2-X.iso" (the Regular full Plop OS) in Virtual Box. But it gave an error about needing PAE for the Kernel. I set VBox to use PAE, but that just Crashed VBox. So, if I want to try this one out, I will have to do it on a Real Box (Hardware System). I may put them both on a USB Stick and then use Plop Boot Manager to try them out on Real Hardware. Check out Plop Boot Manager on my Blog too. It's a very useful Boot Tool... http://donsdeals.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-is-that-little-plop-boot-manager.html

Don

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Introduction
System requirements
Features
Screenshots
Download
!! Create bootable Plop Linux CD/USB device with Linux
!! Create bootable Plop Linux CD/USB device with Windows
Install to harddisk
F-PROT Antivirus for Linux
Avast Antivirus for Linux
AVG Antivirus for Linux
Backup/restore Windows with Partimage
Backup/restore Windows with fsarchiver
Boot from network (PXE, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, Samba/Windows network share) - Linux Server
Boot from network (PXE, DHCP, TFTP, Windows network share) - Windows Server
Xorg, Gnome, Fluxbox, gparted and more
x64 (64bit) version
Locale settings
Perl modules
Welcome text
C compiler
Ext2/3 instead of FAT
Splash screen
Special commands
Boot parameter
FAQ's - Frequently asked questions

Introduction


Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB harddisk or from network with PXE. It's designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more.

Current stable: 4.1.2

Next release: ploplinux-4.1.3-test2


Info: Alternative to the official usb install method, you can use following tools made by others:


System requirements


  • Intel i486 compatible processor
  • 64MB ram

Features


  • booting from CD/DVD, USB and network
  • Linux kernel 3.0.1
  • 32bit and 64bit versions
  • sshfs
  • NTFS read/write with ntfs-3g (except compressed and encrypted files)
  • add your own scripts
  • IDE, SATA, SCSI, and RAID support
  • Partimage to save or restore partitions
  • pimgrestore
  • proftpd server
  • ssh connections
  • samba connection
  • nfs connection
  • btrfs
  • vmstat
  • systat package
  • fsarchiver
  • mbuffer, udpcast, multicast
  • partclone
  • memtest
  • cryptsetup luks
  • tftp (tftpd)
  • xinetd
  • dhcp server
  • testdisk, photorec
  • Plop Boot Manager
  • nmap
  • perl
  • lilo, grub, grub2
  • chntpw, reged
  • chkrootkit
  • bluetooth
  • wake on lan (wol, ether-wake, ethtool)
  • lot of network tools
  • Linux F-PROT Antivirus from F-PROT.
    This antivirus is free for personal users.
  • Linux AVAST Antivirus from avast! Linux Home Edition.
    This antivirus is free for non-commercial use. You need a licence key to use it.
  • Network connections to windows network shares, ftp servers, web servers or ssh connections.
  • wine, mono, vnc, gparted, firefox, ...
  • Flash player, LibreOffice, OpenOffice

Screenshots


Boot menu

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     Console

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     Console

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     Gnome

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     Fluxbox

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Go there...
http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html#system

Plop Boot Manager and Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB harddisk or from network with PXE.
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Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You - How-To Geek
DistroWatch.com: Plop Linux
Plop 4.1.2 Screen Shots - Screen shots of Plop 4.1.2 and Other Linux Distros
Plop Forum - Index
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Plop - Home
Plop - Documentation / Manual / Examples - Free Boot Manager, builtin usb driver, native usb, boot different operating systems, cdrom, usb, freeware, option rom bios
Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot
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Plop - Documentation / Manual / Examples - Free Boot Manager, builtin usb driver, native usb, boot different operating systems, cdrom, usb, freeware, option rom bios
Plop - Documentation / Manual / Examples - Free Boot Manager, builtin usb driver, native usb, boot different operating systems, cdrom, usb, freeware, option rom bios



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