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According to informed sources (http://wiki.tcl.tk/11951) a lot of Puppy Linux is done with Tcl and Tk. Reminds me to some degree of ETLinux:
http://www.prosa.it/etlinux/papers/linuxandc.en.ht ml

although of course that was aimed at much smaller targets.

Ginux - Glinux - LinuG - LiGux - G-Linux - Gnix - Ginix - Goonix - Lingle - Lingoo -G*nix - Gnugle/Linux and Gurd and GOS and GFOSS and Mangoo and Gonectiva and Goose and Yellow God GOT Goontoo and
Glackware and Glookware and Slackgoo and Slackgle and
Gasp and
Grosa and
Gine and
Grudgeware and
G007! and
Gycoris and
Gaydar and
Galt and
Grid and
Gark and
Ginspire and
Goper and
Gorphix and
Guppy and
Fedora Gore and
Gimpi and
Golinux and
The list goes on and on..

Dashes/ands/bad formating for benefit of lameness filter.
Gnopix is already taken!

I think a business is willing to spend a lot of money for a "warranty".

I mean, a manager need a warranty that a project
will be completed in time and will do the work;
he could spend a lot of money to get this warranty.

So he is not paying for the quality, or for the
men hours spent on the project: he is really
paying for the warranty (in the broadest sense).

I'm not surprised that a lot of money can
be spent on software.

That's the way I usually ask (a lot of) money for
GPL software to my customers. We basically
work as an assurance company.

Davide Barbieri
--
http://www.prosa.it - the free software company

The Linux Journal had a great article by Alessandro Rubini on how to build your own parallel port audio device for Linux with just a couple of chips. The article was on page 70 of LJ issue number 53, September 1998. There is a listing of the driver at available at the LJ website.

Don't forget these as well:

ET-Linux - Runs on embedded x86 systems, and really IS meant for small, embedded systems (eg. little to no security). glibc2.1/kernel 2.0.38. Used with an ADC card to acquire data in the astrophysics lab where I work. It'll fit nicely in a 6MB flash chip.

TINY Linux - Really meant for recycling old 386s, works in an embedded environment without too much work. A full install with X takes around 80MB, but you can pare it down to 10-20. Based on libc5, though, so watch out when compiling new packages.

MicroLinux - I haven't used this one, nor do I read Russian (which the page is in), but I've heard that it works and has a very small installed footprint.

MuLinux - An Italian distro, still in development, major feature of which is the ability to live in a ramdisk on a computer with only 4MB of ram, if I understand correctly what I've read about it. (Haven't actually used this one either.)

Linuxcare Gurus who's who

Include Tridgell, Paul Mackerras(Linux on PPC), Paul Russell(ipchains), the excellent group of people at Prosa, and more on their way!