Toorox Review

Toorox is a Linux Live-DVD based on Gentoo which uses KNOPPIX technology in booting. While booting, all necessary drivers will be included automatically (lshwd). It comes with lots of useful applications including system configuration tools, easy package management, and proprietary code installers. It compiles and install software from Gentoo sources. Toorox installation on your computer begin as a binary installation with all its advantages, such as fast, easy, and ready at boot, but subsequent package installation compiles source packages.

Toorox lists some of their software in an introduction that appears when the desktop starts. These include:
- Kernel 2.6.37-gentoo
- KDE 4.6.0
- Xorg-Server 1.9.4
- LibreOffice 3.3.1
- IceCat 3.6.13
- Thunderbird 3.1.7
- K3b 2.0.2
- Gimp 2.6.11
- Wine 1.3.14
- VLC 1.1.7
- Amarok 2.4.0
- Audacious 2.4.3
- Ardour 2.8.7
- Kino 1.3.3
- Cinelerra 20101104

Toorox includes two graphical Portage front-ends: Potato and Porthole.
Minimum equipment:
i686 CPU (Pentium II and faster) + 512MB RAM + DVD
Optimum equipment:
Multi-Core CPU + 1GB RAM + DVD

Toorox linux can be used for the following jobs:
- Backup data
- Secure internet browsing
- Look and feel for Linux rookies
- Hard disk installation
- Making a Live USB-Pendrive

References:
http://toorox.de/index.php