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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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

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!! 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

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:

Linux USB Installer: MultiBoot LiveUSB
Windows USB Installer: universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3, Linux Live USB Creator

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