4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (by using it as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for example, for playing video DVDs), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (meaning console games).
| Tags | Linux distribution Live-CD system rescue Console Server multimedia Games - Linux X windows |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Linux |
| Translations | English |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This is a core system (about 5 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 6.1 series. The system includes: Linux 3.9.0, glibc 2.16, and Busybox 1.20.2. All 4MLinux 6.1 applications have been compiled under Fedora 18 (x86/32-bit/SMP) with GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2.


Release Notes: This is the final (stable) release of 4MLinux 6.0. It has all the features included in 4MLinux 6.0 Rescue Edition, 4MLinux 6.0 Media Edition, 4MLinux 6.0 Server Edition, and 4MLinux 6.0 Game Edition.


Release Notes: This is an updated version of 4MLinux 5.1 Game Edition, using 4MLinux 6.0 as the core system. The 4MLinux collection includes, among other things, the following items: classic "shoot'em up" games (Abuse, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Quake), Liero (a realtime "Worms-like" game), Lincity (a construction and management simulation game), space shooters (XGalaga, Kobo Deluxe), and DOSBox 0.74 with some Freeware DOS games. Michael Speck's LGames and ec64 (a Commodore C64 emulator) are also available.


Release Notes: This is an updated version of 4MLinux 5.1 Server Edition, using 4MLinux 6.0 as a core system. The biggest change is the implementation of a highly-customized version of thttpd as a default HTTP server, which has the following features available out of the box: both public and private (i.e., password protected) hosting, virtual hosts enabled by default, support for both unencrypted and encrypted ("https") connections, and compiled-in PHP support. There is an online demo (server.4mLinux.com), too.


Release Notes: This is an updated version of 4MLinux 5.1 Media Edition, using 4MLinux 6.0 as a core system. It has a wide set of applications for playing (MPlayer SVN-r35910-4.7.2, xine 1.2.2, TiMidity++ 2.14.0, MikMod 3.2.0), recording (Audacity 2.0.3, SoX 14.4.1), and ripping media (DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15, MEncoder SVN-r35910-4.7.2, FFmpeg Git-2013-02-10). Xpdf 3.0.3 and XPaint 2.9.9 are also included.
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