INX Is Not X: Release Candidate 2
Written for "INX Is Not X" by Peter Garrett on 2008-08-18
The "INX Is Not X" team is pleased to announce availability of the
second Release Candidate ( inx-rc2) from
or its European mirror site at
INX is a Live CD based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, which aims to be a complete
'non-graphical' GNU/Linux environment. It can be used to learn the
command line, as a rescue disc, or as a general purpose portable
command line and virtual console operating system...
ISO Downloads (187 MB iso) are available from
http://
There are also compressed Virtual Box and Qemu images:
( Direct download links)
Virtual Box:
http://
Qemu:
http://
The focus of INX is to act as a fun way to use GNU/Linux to explore the
power of the command line. It has built-in interactive tutorials, and
simple application selection from colourful menus.
You can get an idea of how it looks and works from the "slideshow"
beginning at
http://
or find some 'screencast' videos at
http://
The live CD can be booted in RAM for better speed and functionality.
The full list of packages used in INX is at
http://
"INX Is Not X" - so it contains no X applications at all.
These are the additional Ubuntu 8.04 packages used by INX
(additional to ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard)
All packages are the Ubuntu packages, with versions as for Ubuntu 8.04.1
abcde
antiword
bsdmainutils
calcurse
cmatrix
console-freecell
console-terminus
cplay
cdtool
dialog
dict
elinks-lite
fbgrab
fbi
figlet
gpm
greed
htop
iftop
iptraf
irssi
jed
links2
linm
mc
moc
mpg321
mplayer-nogui
mutt
robotfindskitten
sc
screen
setcd
sl
sshfs
telnet
urlview
usbmount
vifm
vim
zile
Mailing Lists:
http://
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