The Public IP ZoneCD is what's known as a LiveCD. It does not install to your hard drive. It runs right from your CD-ROM. The ZoneCD is a re-master of Morphix CD ( http://www.morphix.org/ ) which in turn is a modified version of KNOPPIX CD ( http://www.knoppix.net/ ). The ZoneCD is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software pre-configured to create a WiFi gateway. The CD is a mini operating system with automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards and other peripherals. The gateway includes support for WiFi end-user authentication and web content filtering. Public IP ZoneCD is distributed under the GNU General Public License .

The ZoneCD is Linux, but you don't have to know anything about Linux to use the ZoneCD. You just need to know how to place a CD in a CD-ROM, and turn-on a computer… How cool is that!? All the benefits of Linux (stability, configurability, security, and a few other * ity's) without having to know anything about Linux! We have Knoppix to thank for that. Knoppix provides much of the auto configuration software used during bootup. Morphix provides the lightweight modular platform for me to add the components and software required to create an automatic WiFi gateway.

The ideal of Open Source is what makes the building and distribution the ZoneCD possible. The sharing of code so that the next developer can pickup and take the software in a new direction is what makes open source work. It's what makes the ZoneCD work.

The following Open Source projects are the building blocks used to create the ZoneCD