News from the LiveCD World
Over at O’Reilly’s site, Kevin Shockey, the same person who recently reviewed the Snappix LiveCD, takes a look at Mono Live.
In addition to the core mono-based tools MonoDevelop, MonoDoc, and xsp, the Live CD also includes Postgres, pgAdmin III, and Glade.
IBM Developerworks discovers four security based LiveCDs and writes up some good information about them.
Mutagenix is a pretty impressive LiveCD based on SLAX. Check out its screenshots at OSDir.
gnuman.com has a good review of WHAX 3.0. If you’re wondering why you would want to download WHAX, this review will answer that question.
when you open the ‘k’ menu, you will notice the top menu ‘Whax tools’; this menu is what sets Whax apart from the crowd. the ‘Whax tools’ menu is divided into easy and obvious sub-menu’s, from enumeration to fuzzers and bluetooth utilities.
Fuzzers? Anyone want to add that to Wikipedia?
WHAX 3.0 screenshots over at OSDir.
KDE 3.4.2 has been released, and with it is Klax. Klax allows one to test out the new KDE environment quickly, without any setup or configuration.
Enterprise Networking Planet has a well written article about LiveCDs, focusing on their usefulness to network administrators.
In the beginning was tmsrtbt,
And again, OSDir with the screenshots. Berry Linux 0.60
OSDir is back with more screenshots, this time of Puppy Linux 1.0.4.
DSL 1.3.1 is on the mirrors, but is not yet updated on their homepage. OSDir is very prompt with screenshots of the new release.
LXer is reporting, and has a link, to the recently released education-focused LiveLAMP LiveCD. They’re looking for mirrors.
LinuxDevices.com is reporting on something new. It’s a bootable USB drive with an embedded fingerprint scanner. You get to carry your desktop wherever you go, plus it stays secure. It’s always nice to see companies creating innovative products.
The COS can boot x86 computers capable of booting from USB, or from CD-ROM thanks to a downloadable initrd kernel image.
I’m not sure where the fingerprint scanner goes with the CDROM version, I’m guessing you still need the USB stick.
If you have not already done this, go download Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux. The combined size will only be 110 MB, and you’ll have some amazing capabilites. After you’ve got them running, see how simple it is to install them onto a keydrive, or to have them load into memory so you can add programs, change settings, and then burn the results (using the now-free CD burner) to create your own custom LiveCD. One fun thing you could do is create a LiveCD which automatically boots up, loads any shared music directories on your network, and starts playing the songs in random order. Now you have a use for that Pentium 133 laptop that’s been sitting in your closet.
SourceWire has the press release for the new Studio to Go! LiveCD. Studio to Go! is a professional audio studio preconfigured on a Linux LiveCD.
OSDir has screenshots of Kate OS LIVE. Nice looking desktop.
NewsForge has an article describing how to get SLAX installed and running from a USB pen/key/jump/thumb drive. Useful information that can probably be applied to other LiveCDs as well.
Slax is a powerful and complete bootable distro based on Slackware, equipped with kernel 2.6, ALSA sound drivers, Wi-Fi card support, X11-6.8.2 with support for many GFX cards and wheel mice, and KDE 3.4.
Puppy Linux 1.0.4 is out. Check out the multitude of changes here.
SLAX 5.0.6 is out, here is the changelog.
The Guardian Unlimited has an overview of the new Knoppix 4.0 LiveDVD. I like the tagline:
With access to 50,000 free programs, why bother with a system that only comes with 50, asks Glyn Moody