Gnuman.com has a favorable review up of the Kanotix 2006 beta.
10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery)
Darknet.org summarizes ten different security based LiveCDs and rates them. A good article for figuring out which security LiveCD to add to your toolbox.
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering
My desktop OS: Kanotix
NewsForge brings us another installation in the series My desktop OS. This time the choice is Kanotix.
Simply put, Kanotix is Knoppix on steroids — lots of steroids:
Create a custom LiveDVD that boots multiple LiveCDs!
DistroWatch Weekly introduces us to a Spanish language website detailing the steps (with screenshots) of creating a LiveDVD capable of booting multiple LiveCDs. It’s in the third paragraph down.
All you need to do is to download the ISO images of those distributions that you’d like to have on the live DVD, place them into correct directories, set up GRUB’s menu.lst, and execute a script.
Interview: Chris Smart, Kororaa Project
DistroWatch Weekly interviews Chris Smart from the Kororaa Project. The interview has some interesting information on the development of their XGL LiveCD.
KNOPPIX 5.0 Cebit Released
The Cebit release of Knoppix 5.0 is out. Now we have to wait for someone to purchase it, make an ISO file, and upload it to a bittorrent tracker site (which I believe is legal). The “normal” 5.0 LiveCD and LiveDVD versions will be released to mirrors a couple weeks after Cebit, at the earliest.
The KNOPPIX 5.0 Live DVD contains some major changes in the unionfs-based file system, new hardware detection and autoconfiguration, and a more “genuine Debian” oriented selection of packages. Apart from this, the harddisk install option (“knoppix-installer”) has been extended by Martin Öhler, based on the work of Fabian Franz, featuring a “live update” of specific packages from a new version of the live DVD or CD.
Other important features include safe WRITE access to NTFS partitions using libntfs+fuse. This is something everyone who works with Windows machines will benefit from.
(Update) Here’s a link to the torrent: http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1645
Live Demo CD of Microkernel-Based TUD:OS Released
Slashdot reports on the release of a TUD:OS LiveCD.
The OS Group of Technische Universität Dresden (TUD:OS) has released a live demo CD of their custom operating system project. TUD:OS is a microkernel-based operating system targeted at secure and real-time systems.
Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Alpha 5 Screenshots
OSDir has screenshots of the Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Flight 5 LiveCD. Included is an improved version of the Espresso installer and new theme elements. Download it from here.
How to Run Linux on a USB Drive
AltHack.com has a Windows based HowTo for creating a Damn Small Linux bootable USB flash drive.
First Look at SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3
Mad Penguin has a good review up of SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3. It includes lots of screenshots and even a flash video.
The thing that sets MEPIS apart from many of the live CDs in circulation today is its graphical installer. While I see this becoming more and more common, it’s rare to see an installer as well done as this particular one.
Kororaa XGL LiveCD
Tuxmachines.org is currently being slashdotted for their review of the new Kororaa XGL LiveCD. While several Thinkpad’s I’ve tried it on have had issues (ATI…), it ran beautifully at 1600×1200 resolution on an Athlon XP 2100+, 512 MB of RAM, and a GeForce 4600 video card. It was so nice, I didn’t want to move back to my regular computer.
More Reviews of Kororaa:
The Distribution Dilemma
LXer has an article proposing a possible LiveCD solution for PC vendors who want to sell Linux, but don’t know which distro to choose.
Mandriva Linux One 2006 Beta 2 Screenshots
OSDir has screenshots of Mandriva Linux One 2006 Beta 2 LiveCD, including step-by-step shots of the new installer. Viewing these shots is the next best thing to installing it yourself.
XGL LiveCD Released!
The Kororaa project has released a LiveCD to demo XGL. Download it here.
My desktop OS: GRML
NewsForge reviews GRML and tells why it makes a good desktop OS.
The best discoveries emerge from obscurity. My favorite discovery of last year was GRML Linux. You won’t find this gem in the top 100 at Distrowatch, but if you ask me, it works better than all the usual names.
MandrivaOne – a livecd
Tuxmachines.org has a review of MandrivaOne Beta 2.
The harddrive installer worked wonderfully. At first use it appears simple and lacking in options. One is asked their target partition(s) and boot loader information and off it goes. It took less than 15 minutes from start to finish to install Mandriva One onto my harddrive.
DistroWatch Weekly
DistroWatch.com is full of interesting news in the latest DistroWatch Weekly. It includes information on the not-yet official Debian LiveCD, Mandriva One, Accelerated Knoppix, Super Accelerated Knoppix, and Knoppix 5.0.
Shortly after publishing the above-mentioned announcement, we received an email from Jun Okajima, President of Digital Infra in Japan. His company’s web site claims that a KNOPPIX live CD that boots in — wait for this — under 10 seconds
It’s definitely worth checking out the video of the Knoppix boot.
Book Review: Knoppix Hacks
InfoWorld has a short review of Knoppix Hacks, my personal favorite LiveCD book.
Four Flat Tires: Accelerated Knoppix
Tuxmachines.org reviews the new Accelerated Knoppix with poor results. I tried it today too, on a T43 Thinkpad with a 2.1 GHz Pentium-M and 512 MB of memory, and it took ~1:30 to boot, not much, if at all, better than regular Knoppix. I wonder if specific hardware is needed to take advantage of the boot optimizations.