Operating Systems Distributions

Absolute

Absolute Linux simplifies the installation of Slackware. Providing a desktop that helps you do what you want, but knows how to stay out of your way. This in combination with VirtualBox creates yet another perfect environment to see how well linux provides solutions for your computing needs.
VBoxAdditions for Linux are installed on some releases, see the release page from more information.

Bio-Linux

Bio-Linux 5.0 is a fully featured, powerful, configurable and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation. Bio-Linux provides more than 500 bioinformatics programs on an Ubuntu Linux base. There is a graphical menu for bioinformatics programs, as well as easy access to the Bio-Linux bioinformatics documentation system and sample data useful for testing programs.

BLAG

blag is an operating system. blag has a suite of graphics, internet, audio, video, office, and peer to peer file sharing applications. you can replace a windoz installation with blag.

CAINE Linux

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is a GNU/Linux live distribution created by Giancarlo Giustini as a project of Digital Forensics for Interdepartment Center for Research on Security (CRIS), supported by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical interface.

Calculate Linux

Calculate Linux - an open project for the introduction of Linux everywhere. The project gives easy access to all opportunities of Gentoo.

CentOS

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.)

ClarkConnect

Abount ClarkConnect:
ClarkConnect was developed in the labs at Point Clark Networks. From day one, the solution was designed to combine an easy-to-use server/gateway with innovative value-added services.

If you are looking for an easy to install Linux Small Business Server, then try ClarkConnect!

The Virtual images here provide an excellent opportunity to try ClarkConnect

CrunchBang

CrunchBang Linux is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution has been built and customised from a minimal Ubuntu install. The distribution has been designed to offer a good balance of speed and functionality. CrunchBang Linux is currently available as a LiveCD; however, best performance is achieved by installing CrunchBang Linux to your hard disk.

VirtualBoxImages has available both Standard and Lite editions.

Debian

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.

Debris Linux

Debris Linux gives you a simple, pleasing, but fully functional desktop with all applications necessary to get work done online and offline. It's intended to be fully usable as a LiveCD, but a lot of work also went into the installer which should make it easy for just about everyone to put it on the hard drive, either on its own partition or by using the complete disk. Apart from providing speed and efficiency, Debris Linux should be suitable for the "average" user who wants to just use a computer.

Dreamlinux

About Dreamlinux:
Dreamlinux is a Brazilian distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. A live CD with a graphical hard disk installation option, it boots directly into an Xfce or GNOME desktops which provide access to a good collection of desktop applications and a central control panel for system configuration.

EasyPeasy

Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu Eee) is an Ubuntu-based distribution for netbooks. It uses Ubuntu Netbook Remix graphical user interface and includes open source as well as proprietary software.

Excelixis

Excelixis is the OS formaly known as Workbench Linux which we also brought to you as a Virtual Disk Image here.
http://virtualboximages.com/VirtualBox+Workbench+Linux+Embedded+Computer...

Excelixis is a derivative of Xubuntu (which is an official spin-off of Ubuntu based on XFCE instead of GNOME), which comes with several development tools and environments (such as Eclipse, NetBeans, Lazarus, Apache web server, MySQL) pre-installed and some applications (screenlets, cairo-dock) to make it more appealing to the eye.

fedora

"Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join."

Foresight

Foresight is a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to their music, photos, videos, documents, and Internet resources.

The Foresight VirtualBox virtual computer image allows you to see why Foresight Linux should be strongly considered as your next Linux desktop.

As a Linux distribution, Foresight sets itself apart by eliminating the need for the user to be familiar with Linux, combining a user-focused desktop environment on top of Conary. As the most technically innovative software management system available today, Conary ensures that users can efficiently search, install, and manage all the software on the Foresight system, including bringing in the latest features and fixes without waiting for a major release.

FreeDOS

FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system (mostly achieved except Windows compatibility - Windows standard-mode works on FreeDOS, but 386-mode / WfW 3.11 does not.) See FreeDOS Bugs for details.

Freezy

gNewSense

gNewSense has a rich graphical user-interface, a full office suite, plus web browsers, email, instant messenging, calendaring and for developers — the full GNU developer toolchain, GNU Emacs and a variety of compilers, debuggers and more.

gOS

gOS is an awesome operating system some say its the "Google Operation System". This is not the case, but with tight integration with google applications, one may agree.

Experience the benefits of the gOS operating system without the need for a new computer.

Granular

Granular is a Linux operating system that is easy to use, user-friendly, and filled with lots of fun. For newbies in the world of Linux who want to explore and play around with Linux, Granular is a must try. At the same time, it is well suited to the regular Linux users.

One notable feature of Granular is that it unites various desktop environments, like KDE and Enlightenment, together onto one CD/DVD. Switching between them is easy.

Package Included in Granular:

  • Granular Control Center - used to manage your system from a central point
  • Synaptic Package Manager - used to install new softwares from the repositories
  • Mozilla Firefox - the default web browser
  • Xine - codecs library which enables playback of virtually all known multimedia formats. It's the backend for some great multimedia players, like Amarok (audio player) and Kaffeine (video player)
  • Kopete - the default chat client. Supports many instant messaging protocols, like Yahoo!, AIM, GTalk, MSN etc.
  • GIMP - very popular image editing software
  • digiKam - photo management application
  • KOffice suite - replacement to Microsoft Office. It is a collection of softwares like KWord, KPresenter, KSpread.