PureOS and PureOSlight are GNU/Linux liveCDs , they allow the discovery and the use of a GNU/Linux operating system without modifying the contents of the hard-disk.

Intended for a large-public, these two liveCDs can also be used as a liveUSB or be installed on the hard-disk.

PureOS is a complete liveCD (700 Mo) with KDE, Iceweasel, Icedove, OpenOffice.org, Songbird, VLC, K3B…

PureOSlight is a small liveCD (400 Mo) with Xfce, Iceweasel, Claws Mail, Abiword, Gnumeric, Exaile, MPlayer…

They are based on Debian (testing branch), realized with the Linux-Live scripts and distributed under GPL licence.

PureOS is listed on DistroWatch .

PureOSlight 1.0 beta 2 is available, it's built with the Linux-Live scripts and squashfs+zlib (instead of squashfs+lzma).

Download:
- via bittorrent: FreeTorrent or LinuxTracker
- direct download at GoLDZoNE Web
- direct download at Linux-live-cd.org

Modifications:
- kernel 2.6.30.8 with ext4 support and grub2
- Iceweasel 3.5.3
- Claws Mail replaces Icedove
- ePDFView replaces Evince
- MPlayer replaces VLC
- Pidgin removed
- improved scripts for module management (thank to N. Villa / Linux-live-cd.org )
- Gnome-colors icon theme and Stay-calm wallpaper
- added ntp, xserver-video-geode...

(ISO = 422 mo / MD5sum = 748fb8f06a7e261467d430f550d829ee)

The optional modules 2.6.30.8 kernel are here .

PureOS 2.0 beta 2 is available, it's built with the Linux-Live scripts 6.2.9.
It's a light evolution of the beta 1 release while waiting for the arrival of KDE 4.3.0 in Debian testing.
(ISO = 650 mo / MD5sum = 299dd3ee393d1cbf20ac706fd5746c9d).

Download:
- via bittorrent at FreeTorrent
- direct download at GoLDZoNE Web
- direct download at Linux-live-cd.org

Modifications:
- KDE 4.2.4
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 - Calc + Draw + Impress + Writer (Base has been removed)
- the Kommander installer replaces the Zenity installer
- WICD replaces KNetworkManager
- additions: sux, mc, krusader...
- QtCurve theme and identical fonts for KDE and the GTK apps

The optional modules 2.6.27.8 kernel are here .