Live CD Distros for Desktop Operating Systems

Browse free open source Live CD distros and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Live CD distros by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    Just Use Linux JULinux

    Just Use Linux JULinux

    A Linux Distribution for Windows Users and Mac users

    Goal: Create a Linux distribution that makes it easy and fun for Windows users to upgrade to Linux, without any real learning curve.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    DreamStudio by Volocian Studios
    Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    reactOS vmware image

    reactos vmware image

    vmware image for the REACTOS
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    RhinoLINUX Main Edition

    RhinoLINUX Main Edition

    Desktop Linux - custom built on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint upstream codebases

    RhinoLINUX aims to create a desktop OS with something for everyone, but with ease of use, flexibility and minimal fuss. It is a goal of the project that the OS will run or open ALL common/popular document/media/web format files without needing to add apps/plugins/codecs etc. RhinoLINUX Main Edition is our flagship product. We also have a Lite XFCE,KDE and Cinnamon Editions all hosted at SF.nef This latest release v8.0 is Trusty Tosca - built using Ubuntu 14.04 'trusty' source as codebase there have been added codecs/plugins and cross-platform support for Windows applications and legacy Operating Systems via our VirtualX suite of emulation and virtualization softwaare managers/sub-systems such as QEMU.WINE and VirtualBOX. RhinoLINUX can run multiple Windows versions side by side at the same time or install Windows apps, including MS Office ! Custom system tools such as Multisystem boot builder apps, Live USB creators, Backup tools etc. as well as our Remastering tools left in
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    YANSYS

    YANSYS

    yet another x11 minimal operating system

    It's so experimental! it could EEXPLODDDEEEE!!!!!! seriously, i'm still fricking around with suse, don't expect anything too special
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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  • 6
    Zamunda.SE OS

    Zamunda.SE OS

    Open-source operating system

    Zamunda.SE OS is a free operating system based on Linux Kernel
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    mintyMac winny

    mintyMac winny

    A complete windows 7 styled mintyMac xfce desktop with wine 1.7.22

    mintyMac winny addition is our windows themed distro. Mac OS X themes are pre installed as well among many others. Made for the window user who wants a ready to go LINUX Distro that includes all the standard mintyMac releases features plus including the Full working Wine version 1.7.22 with pre installed software including , Video Light Box, Seamonkey web browser email client and WYSIWYG HTML editor and notepad ++, Whisker Menu, Docky, Evolution (email), Skype, Pidgin, Filezilla, Chromium Browser, Etherape, Miro, SMPlayer, VLC, Audacity, Abiword, Gimp, Inkscape, Bibletime plus much more including of course remastrersys for backups and building your own distro of LINUX. This version also includes Full working system event sounds as well as desktop login sound.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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  • 8

    CK 64 Kernel

    The CK 64-Bit Kernel Operating System

    This project is a implementation of layers. Use Virtual machines & virtual adapters alike an onion! Another operating solution instead of Microsoft Windows Server operating system. It is to be used via remote controlling. The special new "Cktool32" will make it easy to handle *Ck64Krnl*.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 9
    CoSMoUbuntu64
    · Basado en Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64Bits · El usuario del modo LiveCD es "livecd" · Escritorios: Por defecto Unity, también está el GNOME Classic · Activada la hibernación · Agregados bastantes repositorios estables · Agregado: LibreOffice 4
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

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    Digabi

    Digabi

    Digabi OS

    Digabi OS is live-Linux distro for The Matriculation Examination Board of Finland. For downloads, see http://www.abitti.fi/ For sources, see https://github.com/digabi/digabi-os
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Drauger OS

    Drauger OS

    Ubuntu-based Linux Gaming OS

    Drauger OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux desktop gaming distribution that ships with many modifications and optimizations over stock Ubuntu that are intended to improve gaming performance and the gaming experience. From simple changes such as swapping Gnome out for the light-weight Xfce Desktop Environment and using a dark GTK theme by default, to more complex changes such as using a kernel compiled in-house and replacing PulseAudio with Pipewire. Drauger OS is built from the ground up with our primary focus on performance. DRAUGER OS IS NO LONGER PROVIDED FROM THIS SOURCE. CHECK OUT https://draugeros.org.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Firefly failsafe

    Firefly failsafe

    failsafe image for illumos based distributions

    Firefly is small failsafe image for illumos based distributions
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FreeOS/1
    FreeOS/1 is a Free, Open Source, FreeDOS based Free and Open Source Alternative OS, with open source Microsoft Windows compatibility using HXDOSExtender KernelEx,and ReactOS source code. FreeOS/1 will include new technologies and will be easy to use
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 14

    LINUX SPIRIT

    sistema libre

    la majestuisidad y complicidad al alacance de tus manos
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    PearlX

    PearlX

    A stable feature packed Multimedia Linux Distro

    PearlX is a 64 bit release based on the 14.04 release from Ubuntu. PearlX is running on the MATE desktop environment and is our only release using Windows XP as the default theme. You may easily change themes using the Appearance tab in the control panel. PearlX includes Kodi Media Center (Pearl Media Center) with used to be called XBMC. Full 1080 HD content streams all video feeds flawlessly.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 16
    SERVOS Professional

    SERVOS Professional

    SERVOS is an open source Linux-based operating system.

    SERVOS is an open source Linux-based operating system. It is a modern dynamic system which can dynamically load and unload executable modules at runtime on or having a minimal hardware requirement. The versatile modular approach using LZMA compression technology makes SERVOS one of the best highly compressed operating system in the history. SERVOS modules are specially designed to be much smaller than any other compressed packages available nowadays, and through the use of a Monolithic Kernel Design, speed of decompression remains usually faster than reading the full data from disk. SERVOS aims to provide a less investment with more quality and features.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Super Ya-DOS

    Super Ya-DOS

    Another Disk Operating System (DOS)

    Super Ya-DOS was being written from 1998 through 2004. It's a multiuser operating system for x86 machines. It was written in TASM 2.0 and PowerBASIC 2.10f. Follow these web pages as well, http://test.nostalgy.net.ru/alien/sites/ya-dos/ http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=2691
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Wallstone Creativity Desktop

    Wallstone Creativity Desktop

    Editing, Publishing, Audio and Video Productions!

    Are you a writer? Do you do heavy blogging? Do you edit other people's works? Are you a (self-) publisher? Do you need the ability to write, edit, or publish works on-the-go? Are you sick of paying Microsoft hundreds of dollars for software that doesn't work right? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then the Wallstone Creativity Desktop was made for you. This (mostly) complete system, Powered by OpenSUSE, has plenty of tools for writing, editing, converting documents, scanning documents, handling images and photos, planning, and much more. In addition, if you work on audio or video projects, we're working on making your lives better as well, with programs like OpenShot and Cinelrella, Mixxx, and Audacity. The Wallstone Creativity Desktop wants to be YOUR favorite Linux distribution, so tell us what you'd like to see! ----- Downloads (on Suse Studio): 32-bit: http://goo.gl/6uIFjf 64-bit: http://goo.gl/P5bzPm
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    osFree operating system
    open source analogue of IBM OS/2 operating system
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    v9os

    v9os

    Minimalist distro for SPARC servers, based on illumos kernel

    v9os is a server-only, IPS-based minimal SPARC distribution of illumos. See http://milax.fi/v9os.html for quickstart
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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