Wolvix is a great operating system for anyone wanting an alternative to Microsoft Windows, or wanting a fully functional modern desktop for an older computer. Our Development Engineer writes:
"If you figure in the Wolvix updates, the excellent Wolvix Control Panel, the ability to use NTFS partitions, excellent wireless support, the ability to play DVDs and nearly any multimedia content without having to add codecs or extra software, all the pre-installed browser plugins, the excellent choice of pre-installed software, and the sheer speed and performance, Wolvix is on par with some of the heavy hitters such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and PCLinuxOS. If, like me, performance is a key factor for you, Wolvix may very well be the Alpha Wolf." Click here for the complete review.

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Wolvix is a LiveDistro built from Slackware and the Linux-Live scripts. It's a desktop and multimedia oriented Linux distribution designed to suit the needs of regular to advanced desktop users. Wolvix comes with the Xfce desktop environment and the Fluxbox window manager and includes a carefully selected group of development, graphics, multimedia, network and office applications.


Wolvix Hunter is a larger edition of Wolvix (based on Cub) designed to fit on 512Mb USB Flash Drives, it can be loaded into memory for faster performance on computers with 768Mb RAM. If installed as a Frugal system to a hard drive it will only consume about 480Mb of storage space. Hunter is a compact but comprehensive desktop system featuring a full suite of applications for office, graphics, multimedia and development use. It also comes with Qemu the open source machine emulator and virtualizer and Quemulator for easy setup and management of emulation jobs. Included in Hunter are also larger packages such as SAMBA, Java, and CUPS which have been left out of the smaller Wolvix Cub edition.

Wolvix Hunter features these applications and more:

• Desktop Environments:
• Xfce4, a lightweight desktop environment, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.
• Fluxbox, a fast compact window manager based on the Blackbox, but offering more features.
• Accessories:
• File-Roller , an archive manager for the GNOME environment.
• Catfish , a file search tool using different back-ends.
• GNOME Commander , a fast and powerful graphical file manager, it has a ''two-pane'' interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.
• Medit, a useful programming and around-programming text editor.
• Development:
• SciTE, a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.
• Bluefish, a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers.
• Kompozer , Nvu's unofficial bug-fix release. A complete Web Authoring System to rival programs like FrontPage & Dreamweaver.
• Meld , a visual diff merge and source control tool.
• Games:
• Berusky , a logic game that is based on an ancient puzzle named Sokoban.
• Crack Attack! , a game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
• LBreakout2 , a polished and feature rich break out game.
• LGeneral , a turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.
• LTris , a nice Tetris clone.
• Nethack , a single player dungeon exploration game.
• Xgalaga , a good adaptation of the original Galaga arcade game.
• Xmahjongg , an solitaire Mahjongg game.
• ZSNES , a Super Nintendo emulator.
• Graphics:
• Comix, a image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books.
• Gimp, a tool for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
• GQview, an image viewer featuring single click file viewing, external editor support, thumbnail preview, and zoom features.
• Gtkam, a front-end to gphoto2 digital camera access library.
• mtPaint, a simple painting program designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork.
• Inkscape , an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
• Blender , suite of tools for 3D creation.
• Multimedia:
• gnormalize, an audio converter, encoder, ripper, meta data (tag) editor and audio cd player.
• Grip, a CD player and CD ripper/encoder.
• GnomeBaker, a CD/DVD burning application.
• OGMRip, an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI/OGM files using a wide variety of codecs.
• gtkpod, a GUI for Apple's iPod. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, to add songs, podcasts, video and cover art and to edit ID3 tags.
• MPlayer, a movie player which supports a wide range of video file formats.
• Xine, a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs.
• Audacious, a multimedia player based on the look of WinAmp. It plays MPEG layer 1/2/3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, all formats supported by libmikmod, and CD audio.
• streamtuner, a stream directory browser. It offers an intuitive interface to Internet radio directories.
• EasyTAG, a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files.
• Kino , a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera.
• Exaile , is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+
• Audacity , a tool for recording and editing sounds.
• Avidemux , a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
• DarkSnow , a graphical interface for 'darkice', which is a a live audio streamer.
• dvd::rip , a full featured DVD copy program
• gtkpod , a GUI for Apple's iPod.
• Gungirl Sequencer , an easy to use audio sequencer.
• gPodder , a podcast receiver/catcher.
• VLC , a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.
• Network:
• Claws Mail, is an email client (and news reader).
• Transmission , a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client.
• gFTP, a multi-threaded file transfer client.
• Pidgin , a multi-protocol instant messenger client.
• XChat, a graphical IRC client.
• Chestnut Dialer, a PPP dialing program.
• Gnome PPX, a Broadband Connectivity Suite.
• Grsync, a GUI for rsync, the command line directory synchronization tool.
• Dillo, a very fast, extremely small Web browser.
• Firefox, the award winning Mozilla's next generation browser.
• WiFi Radar, a utility for managing, scanning, and auto-connecting to WiFi profiles.
• GProftpd , a fast and easy to use GTK+ administration tool for the Proftpd standalone server.
• Gwget , a download manager for Gnome. It's use wget as its back-end.
• Drivel , a client for working with online journals.
• Ekiga , an open source VoIP and video conferencing application.
• GSAMBAD , an easy to use front-end for the SAMBA file and print server.
• pyNeighborhood , a front-end for Samba client tools.
• Office:
• Evince, a document viewer for multiple document formats like pdf, postscript, dvi and many others.
• gLabels, a label and business card creation program.
• NoteCase, a hierarchical text notes organizer (aka. 'outliner').
• Gnumeric , a spreadsheet intended to be a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets.
• Xpad, a sticky note application that strives to be simple, fault-tolerant, and customizable.
• AbiWord, a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
• GNUCash , a personal and small-business financial-accounting program.
• OpenOffice , an office suite compatible with all other major office suites.
• Planner , a Project Management application.
• System:
• Firestarter , a visual firewall tool. The program aims to combine ease of use with powerful features, serving both desktop users and administrators.
• Gnome Nettool, a set of front-ends to various networking command-line tools, like ping, netstat, ifconfig, whois, traceroute, finger.
• Gslapt, a front-end to slapt-get, an APT like system for Slackware package management.
• Gparted, hard drive partition editor.
• ISO Master , an open-source, easy to use, graphical CD image editor.
• Thunar , a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
• Qemulator , a full featured emulation suite for the qemu virtual engine.
• Wolvix Control Panel , a suite of admin utilities to configure the Wolvix GNU/Linux system.

Please note: $5.41 from this Wolvix Hunter disc shipped is given to support the continued Development of Wolvix. We are proud to offer this support and encourage you to financially support Free and Open Source Software Development.