Mollucas (Windows OSS Distro)

[Midas]

Probably only interesting for software developers, but nonetheless deserving of mention here at TPFC:

Moluccas is Open Source Software distro for Windows. It's similar to Liberkey but it is for Command Line environment and only OSS allowed, thus target advanced users-alike.[sic]

Features: The most complete build environment distro; mingw-w64 multilib, mingw32, gcc3.x (sjlj,dwarf2,seh); dozens other preconfigured compilers and interpreters; all popular SCM are ready to use; a superset of MSYS 1.x in fully portable mode; all documentation toolchain (miktex included); all kind of build tools; graphics tools (imagemagick, graphviz, many converter); Visual C++ integration; dozens of supplementary GUI apps; dozens ready to use libraries for GCC; all programming languages; server and network tools; most binaries are single exe; like a Linux distro, many other kinds of tasks are supported...

Mollucas v0.8a (released November 1, 2013) Sourceforge (and download) page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tumagcc/. See first link above for a complete list of included programs.

[freakazoid]

I've been using this gem myself when I need to run Python or Ruby. Be warned that the uncompressed size is huge, even if you choose a minimal set of packages. My current size is at around 2.5GB.