Made by professional developer and manager team, now a leading Russian software and Linux service supplier; merged with Black Cat Linux in 2001. Moscow, Russia. English, Bulgarian, Russian, Chinese, Korean.

Red Hat compatible distribution; made in Europe with broad European language support (Czech, English, Estonian, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish), multimedia and education software; also is a magazine sold Europe-wide.

Italian distribution from scratch, begun 1996 on 4 floppy disks, grew big (2 CD-ROMs), then shrunk down to a few packages for business card CD-ROMs; descriptions, documents, downloads, author information. English, Italian.

Distribution mainly for home and new Linux users, fully localized Hebrew environment: install procedure and GUI.

Goal: emulate MS Windows 95 100% visually, and as much as possible functionally, in time use Windows drivers. Has Linux kernel 1.3.1 updated with parts of 2.4.x, X Windows 11, WINE. English, Español.

Makes personal Desktop distribution popular in South Korea, commercial Hancom Office and Mobile Office suites, WorkDesk Collaboration Suite, Server Solution. English; Korean, Chinese (simplified, traditional), Japanese; Arabic.

Makes Linpus-brand Embedded Linux non-MMU 32-bit SoC Edition; supports shared library, dynamic module load/unload, independent library version for shared libraries. Founded 1997. Taipei, Taiwan. English Chinese.

Debian metadistribution, fully configured KDE and added software: RTLinux, French Netscape, simplified installation in French. First French firm to make a distribution in France, technical support, assistance to use open source software in hard realtime uses, and network security. English, Deutsch, Français.

RPM-based distribution focused on localizing, stability, and security; made mainly in Poland, by Poles. English, Polska.

First Iranian GNU/Linux distribution, live CD, Knoppix- based. English, Farsi. [Chapar Shabdiz Ltd.]

Makes SOT Linux, was Best Linux; distributions for desktop (home, office), minus many server tools; for server, fully IPv6 compatible; SOT Office suite. Founded 1991. Helsinki, Finland. English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian.

SOT Linux community: downloads, news, discussion fora.

Makes Thiz-brand Linux Desktop, Office, Server, Anti-Virus, Firewall, Database; Click2Office. Descriptions, FAQ, news, downloads, purchase option. Hong Kong, China. English, Chinese.

Firm known for its Crusoe processor signs deal with Chinese 2000 Holdings to use Transmeta's Midori version of Linux in mobile and embedded devices. Two firms plan to target markets in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan. [The Register]

Makes Xteam-brand ServerMonitor, LogAnalyzer, WebMail. Founded 1999, first specialized Linux firm in China, personal and business products and services. Downloads, news, purchase option. Beijing, China. English, Chinese.