TA-Linux is a free Linux distribution, that targets Linux power users. It's main goal is to have a small base installation that the end-user can expand to include the software he needs. The secondary goal is to support as many different architectures as possible.

At this time i386, Alpha, PPC, Sparc and MIPS are fully supported with PA-RISC around the corner. Work is also underway to support some more exotic and old platforms like the m68k Macintosh and Sun3 but progress is slow.

Extra software not included in the base is handled using a system like the *BSD ports/gentoo portagee/etc called Collection, that handles installation, upgrading and dependencies. The primary way of installing new software is to download the source, compile and install it (totally automatic). The user can also choose to install already built binary packages, also automatically using the Collection system.

The changelog of the TA-Linux Collection CVS repository can be viewed here: Changelog