Distros for specific activities you should know about

In February I was complaining about the hundreds of existing distros on the market since the excess (with many distros that are refried of the best known) confuses, but there is a segment among those hundreds of distros that have a space, I mean the themed distros.

Use-specific distros allow two things (at least):

• Reach segments of people that traditional distros don't cover.
• Perform tasks that most do not do or that cannot be easily done with a normal distro

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Distros created by universities or organizations to meet the needs of their group, their government, etc., do not fall into this group.

This type of distro is not open to criticism in my opinion, they do GNU / Linux good and from then on what matters is that it is usable, technically ad-hoc with the group to which it is addressed and if it covers a need that is not very touched before.

I leave you a list of distros that are interesting for what they do, some are well known, others not so much (surely they pass through Laura's hands):

Qimo: You must have read about it unless you are very disconnected, a distro especially designed for childrenOtherwise, quite young children, ages 3 and up. It is based on Ubuntu and is basically the same distro with an interface specially designed for them and with many integrated educational games.

ArtistX: It is a distro designed for art in generalIt is also not something very particular being an Ubuntu like Qimo. It runs on KDE or GNOME and is downloaded with a DVD that contains all the graphics programs, both 2D and 3D, all the audio editors, all the video editors, all the media players, anything related to multimedia is there in the DVD. A distro that Esty could keep an eye on.

SuperGrubDisk: Perhaps N @ t and xD's favorite distro, specifically designed to solve starting problems from the PC, especially those who use or will use Windows and Linux together, SuperGrubDisk is the great mediator.

Damn Vulnerable Linux: Vulnerable? Well yes, it is a distro designed for security, but not for you to install it but for you to study it, it is intentionally made wrong for just discover vulnerabilities, play with it, repair its errors, etc., and if the name sounds like another distro, it is because they have designed it from Damn Small Linux (the one that was once considered the smallest in the world).

Parted Magic: Just as I was telling you about SuperGrubDisk and startup problems, there are also partitioning problems, obviously we can't fix a partitioning problem from the same partition, so if we do not have another application in another partition or we cannot use it for any reason, we have Parted Magic for that. Something that scares more than one and that perhaps we should all have. It can fulfill the role of SuperGrubDisk.

Scientific Linux: We could not forget the scientific distro par excellence. Specially configured for the academic work It is designed to work without difficulty on average hardware, even with desktop effects, the applications it has in addition to the usual ones for desktop use contain the scientific programs that other people may not always need, all within the reach of hand with a graphical interface in the style «Next, next». Designed by CERN (Switzerland / Europe) and Fermilab (USA) together, it is based on Red Hat. As you can see, everything is designed in a standard way to not waste time.

Edubuntu: It is that I could not leave out this much heard distro but about which perhaps we do not know much if we are not in the area of Education. It is optimized to work in a network and to use all the educational software provided by Free Software, achieving all this without needing to "call the computer scientist" for everything, also with the advantage of working with LTSP that allows you to use Linux on very modest machines (like those that usually exist in schools).

linux gamers: It is a liveDVD distro to play, if someone tells you that Linux does not have games, give him a demo of Linux Gamers and cover their mouths: D. More update is missed in the distro itself because its latest version is from September 2008 to the date of this article.

I think that with this we have tested enough specific distros to get a good idea, although there is more that I did not show due to lack of time, some are in this collection and you can continue searching on the Internet.

Did you try any of these distros?
Do you know any that you liked a lot and are not here?

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