Kiwi Linux 8.12 is a Desktop CD based on Ubuntu 8.10 for the x86 architecture.

It contains packages necessary for playing restricted multimedia formats by default and supports the Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem

The list of available languages is English, French, German, Hungarian and Romanian.(French and German only partially supported on the CD)

Differences from Ubuntu 8.10 and Kiwi Linux 8.08:

* Packages up to date as of  12-15-2008 from the 8.10 archives

* Added Wubi (was not on previous Kiwi Linux CDs)

* OpenOffice 3.0 with most up to date Romanian translations from the Narro project

* GUI for pppoeconf and support for connections via Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem (Romtelecom)

* A graphical  tool for restoring GRUB boot menus lost after installing other OSes.

* Evolution removed, no mail client at all on the CD

* Flashplugin-nonfree and gstreamer codecs for restricted audio and video formats

* Compiz extra settings GUI

* p7zip, unrar and msttcorefonts

* the on-CD package archive is removed to gain 12M of space.

The Medibuntu repositories are enabled by default to allow installing w32codecs, Skype and Google Earth among others.

The Kiwi package archive where our few changes are kept and which is a GPG-signed mirror of our PPA archive in Launchpad is enabled by default.

 

For more details read the Kiwi Linux FAQ.

Download Kiwi Linux 8.12