Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD (which is no longer actively maintained), with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. The lightweight LXDE is available as an alternative desktop environment.
Tomasz Jokiel has announced the release of Porteus Kiosk 4.1.0, a new version of the projects Gentoo-based distribution for web kiosks: "Im pleased to announce that Porteus Kiosk 4.1.0 is now available for download. Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.4.19, Mozilla Firefox to version 45.3.0ESR and Google Chrome to version 52.0.2743.116. Packages from the userland are upgraded to the Portage snapshot tagged on 2016-09-03. The new release brings two new spins of Porteus Kiosk system - a Cloud variant and a ThinClient variant. The Cloud variant provides an easy access to the web applications and services, such as Google Apps for Education, Jolicloud, OwnCloud or Dropbox. It is less restrictive than the Kiosk variant as it offers functionality which cannot be easily implemented in the standard Kiosk image.
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Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD (which is no longer actively maintained), with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. The lightweight LXDE is available as an alternative desktop environment.
