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What is Granular Linux?

Through the various applications included in Granular, you can surf the internet, write articles, make presentations, chat with your friends, listen to music, play games, manage images and a lot, lot more.....

Another 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.

Granular 1.0 RC

Granular gives you the power of +

• It is a LiveCD which comes with two different desktop environments viz., KDE and Enlightenment (E17).
• Switching between these environments is very simple (for instructions, click here).
• Latest apps and packages, including Kernel 2.6.24.7, KDE 3.5.9, Firefox 3.0, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 among many others.

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Feel at home!

Communication is as easy as cutting a piece of cake. You can chat, send-receive emails, surf the Internet, download stuff, subscribe to newsfeeds, and more.

Working is easy too. You can write documents, create presentations, spreadsheets and graphs, read PDFs, and even print & scan documents using the various applications in the KOffice Suite.

Enjoyment is an essential part of life; Granular will not disappoint you in this regard. Loaded with host of games, you won't get bored even if you want to be. And there are 3D Effects (Compiz Fusion) too for a perfect eye-candy!

Music is rejuvenation. With the many multimedia applications, Granular is capable of playing almost all the well-known and some not well-known media formats with ease. MPlayer, Amarok, and Kaffeine provide the versatility dimension to playing music and watching videos in Granular. Moreover, you can manage your photos and create & edit images like professionals with GIMP and digiKam.

Manage your system more effectively and efficiently through Granular Control Center (Mandrake Control Center -- known for its centralized management interface). Granular Scripts also let you customize and manage your system according to your needs.

Here's what others are saying about Granular:

• " Granular Linux was designed as an easy-to-use version designed mostly for newbies in the Linux area but also for other common users "
• " It's true that Granular Linux does draw heavily from PCLinuxOS, but it does so in a good way. "
• " Granular offers a visually stunning KDE, certainly the nicest implementation of it in any distro I've yet reviewed "
• " LOVE Granular Linux!!!! Best Linux yet! "