The Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash is specially designed to run entirely from a USB Flash Pen Drive with the possibility to choose your working environment from the beginning: Command Line Interface (CLI - recommended for servers) and/or Graphical User Interface (GUI - recommended for Desktop computers).

It is based on the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD and includes packages from the standard Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 and the updated packages from the patches directory which fixes one or more possible security issues, updated SMP Linux Kernel 2.6.24.7 with advanced features and performance, a new version of ALICE 0.9.14, updated IA32 emulation, and many more updated and improved packages. A list with the new packages can be found here.

The "save changes" feature has been improved and enabled by default in this new version of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash. It is made using "bw64save.dat" file which is a compressed image of empty loop XFS file system. Depending of the Pen Drive size, you will have different space size for saving your changes: for 2GB there is 375MB, for the 4GB is 2375MB and for the 8GB is 6395MB space available. In this way, you can use the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash as a mobile HDD without any data loss.



Just a few features of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash
Server from a Flash pen drive, is this for real? Yes, you can boot the Command Line Interface and start using your favorite server applications in just a few minutes. Bind, Samba, CUPS, Apache2, PHP5, MySql, Sendmail and may more are waiting to be used and serve your requests.

I'd like to code, but where? Just boot Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash and in a few minutes you will have an entire GUI and CLI development tools, compilers (GCC, C++, FORTRAN, Ada, GCJ, Objective-C), debuggers (gdb and strace), text editors and may more to help to create your favorite programs.

3D Desktop effects on the Flash. Powered by Compiz and Compiz Plugins, you can run your favorite effects to demonstrate your friend what is capable to run a flash pen in just a few minutes. Make sure that you are installed your video card drivers before using the 3D Desktop effects.

I want to browse, read my e-mails, chat, edit office documents, watch a movie or TV, burn my CD's and DVD's. Is that possible? Yes, Bluewhite64 linux 12.1 Flash is equipped with three different web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey and Konqueror - flash and java ready), email clients (Kmail, Mozilla Thunderbird), instant messaging clients (Kopette, Pidgin), media players (Mplyer, Xine, Audacious), TV viewer (KdeTV), office suite (Openoffice.org) and many more.

OK, I'm a newbie and need to adjust My settings, how can I do that? The Flash pen drive includes an updated version of ALICE 0.9.14 (Advanced Linux Installation and Configuration Environment) which will help you to easily manage different system settings. with six GUI managers: diskmanager (partition your hard drive easily), netmanager (set up your LAN or PPPoE IP's/settings), pkgmanager (keep the system up to date - QT version of slapt-get), servmanager (start/stop boot time services); timemanager (set time, date and time zone) xorgmanager (configure video card, monitor, mouse, keyboard, screen etc). All this can be found at the KMenu - System Menu section.

Security updates? Not one, not two, but three package managers are included to help maintain your system up to date in case a security update is released: slackpkg (CLI), swaret (CLI and GUI) and slapt-get (CLI and GUI).


Tips and tricks for using Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash Pen Drive
1. There is no password set for "root" and "bluewhite64" users, just hit enter whenever the system is asking for password.

2. If you want to don't use "save changes" feature and use it as a Live System then you have to remove the "changes=" option from the boot options. This can be done at the boot menu by pressing the TAB and removing the above parameter, or, to make it permanent, by editing the /mnt/sdX1/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg after the system has started (the X is your pen drive in the system).

3. To run CLI applications that need root privileges you have to use 'sudo [program_name]' and for KDE applications you have to use 'kdesu [program_name]'.

4. If you don't want to automatically mount your HDD partitions during boot then you have to use the 'noauto' boot option. This can be done at the boot menu by pressing the TAB and typing the parameter or by editing the syslinux.cfg (see above at 2).

5. During the Bluewhite64 12.1 Flash boot the system is asking to try automatically configure or not the X.org server. If you choose "y" (yes) then a new xorg.conf will be created with your hardware. If you choose "n" (no) then the xorg.conf VESA (default) config file will be used to start the X server.

6. You have to restart the network settings after using 'netmanager' (Kmenu - NetManager) with the '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart' command.

7. On some systems, the sound is muted by default. Check if Kmix is present near the clock and left click on it and select "Mixer" to adjust your sound settings.

8. ALICE managers can be found at the "Kmenu -> System" section. Thanks to the DARKSTAR Linux team for ALICE!

9. If you want to install the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveUSB in to your hard drive please read this How To.