March Linux

March Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is designed to be Simple, Lean, and Fast for desktop users. The distribution encourages users to learn Linux instead of holding their hands at every step. At the same time, it is functional and usable, with almost every software one might need being available.

This distro is heavily based on Arch Linux, which is, in the opinion of many, the coolest distro on earth. In fact, the March Linux is referred to as a "distrolet" of Arch. The operating system uses the 2.6.21.5 Linux kernel on the Live CD, which is a custom-compiled one that's patched with squashfs-lzma and aufs to work with the Linux-Live Scripts.

Package management is provided by pacman 3.0.4-4, the fantastic package manager for Arch Linux. The March Linux offers gcc 4.1.2-3, and the default desktop is Fluxbox 1.0rc3-1.

Desktop Features:

The March Linux offers a 'walk-through' of the menu. Most apps are described over here. The file manager is Thunar (along with thunar-archive and thunar-volman plugins), and the terminal is Xfce4 Terminal. The web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.4-1, preinstalled with several useful extensions and some themes. The search desktop is Searchmonkey, and the Screenshot is Scrot as the backend. A google-code utility called gscreenshot provides the GUI frontend.

Some Key Features of "March Linux":

- Listen to music and watch movies in a variety of formats, record sounds
- View pictures and perform graphical editing
- Connect to and browse the internet, check emails, download via torrents, perform FTP transfers
- Play a number of cool games, including a few DOS based ones
- View and edit document files, create spreadsheets, view pdf-s, perform calculations, take notes
- Do small programming in a number of languages with an IDE
- And many more!!