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It's no custom distro. It's Ubuntu 10.10 LTS. Only thing which they added was WollMux: http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite

Also they switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice

English description of WollMux: http://code.google.com/p/wollmux/ In short: OpenOffice.org plugin with enhanced template, form, and autotext functionality.

Since when was 10.10 an LTS release? 10.04 was an LTS release and 12.04 was an LTS release. All in between were intermediate releases.

10.10 is an 18 month support release, which long passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version...

10.04 and 12.04 are the only ones with current support.

sorry, meant 10.04

It's ISO certified and AFAIK it's just Ubuntu (previously Debian) with some bells and whistles.

10 years is no short timespan to survive in politically influenced arena.