Desktop – Page 17 – LiveCD News

TG Daily reports that a version of Knoppix with short boot times has been announced and is available for download.

The group is also planning to release an acceleration kit that will allow other Knoppix developers to make their operating systems boot faster.

March 1, 2006

Nexenta OS Alpha 3 Screenshots

OSDir has some screenshots of the OpenSolaris-based LiveCD Nexenta.

March 1, 2006May 19, 2006

Look at Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD

Techgage has a review of the new Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD. Included is a screenshot of the new boot screen.

February 28, 2006May 19, 2006

The Expandable, Versatile MadTux LivePC

LXer has a review of the MadTux Knoppix LivePC, an affordable retail PC sold with Knoppix as the OS.

The LivePC runs off a USB key, and can be expanded to serve a variety of needs. I could sum up the LivePC in just three words, “it just works”. Still, let’s see what we’re getting and how well it works.

February 27, 2006

XP On Your Thumb Drive

InformationWeek has a step-by-step howto for getting Windows XP to boot off a USB flash drive.

Since our earlier discussions, three things have happened that can make it much, much easier to get XP to boot from a USB device.

February 27, 2006May 19, 2006

Mandriva Linux One 2006.0 Beta Screenshots

More screenshots from OSDir.com, this time of Mandriva Linux One 2006.0 Beta, its new LiveCD with installer. Putting an installer on a LiveCD seems to be popular right now, as Gentoo just released theirs yesterday, and Ubuntu is testing one on their beta-flight-6.04 pre-releases. It seems that Knoppix, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, Kanotix, SLAX, and everyone else I’m missing were early to the “LiveCD with installer” party.

February 27, 2006June 2, 2006

Gentoo Linux 2006.0 LiveCD Screenshot Tour

OSDir.com has screenshots up of the new LiveCD from the fine people at Gentoo. Slashdot currently has a story linking to it, with surprisingly few comments about how people just finished compiling the previous version.

February 27, 2006February 27, 2006

First Looks: OliveBSD

DistroWatch.com has a review of the OpenBSD-based LiveCD OliveBSD. It’s always good to see another BSD LiveCD.

February 26, 2006May 19, 2006

Gentoo Linux 2006.0 LiveCD Release

Gentoo Linux is announcing the release of their 2006.0 LiveCD. This LiveCD has major changes over the previous one by including a full desktop environment (Gnome 2.12) and the much anticipated official installer. They also state a KDE based LiveCD will be released in the future, and also a LiveDVD.

February 25, 2006

Linux distros for older hardware

Linux.com reviews some Linux distros for running on older computers and includes two great LiveCDs, Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

This was the first time I used DSL for any period of time, and I was impressed by what the DSL developers have managed to fit into a 50MB download.

February 24, 2006

Elive 0.4 Review

Tuxmachines.org has a review of a visually impressive LiveCD.

Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager.

February 23, 2006

Puppy Linux’s latest trick: v1.0.8

DesktopLinux.com announces the latest release of Puppy Linux. It still has the ability to save changes back to the CD it was burned on using multiple sessions.

February 21, 2006

Knoppix on the Intel-based Macintosh

osxbook.com has pictures of Knoppix running on a new Intel-based iMac.

February 20, 2006

Ubuntu Dapper Adds Graphical Installer Goodness

Tectonic brings us news that the next testing version of Ubuntu 6.04 “Dapper Drake” has been released. Flight 4 includes some major changes, including a graphical installer on the LiveCD named Espresso. This means it’s now possible to browse the web with Firefox while installing Ubuntu.

Not LiveCD related, but cool anyways, is that after installation the Universe repository includes packages for the experimental XGL 3D desktop.

CD images for Flight 4 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu are available.

February 15, 2006

Privacy and anonymity

Anonym.OS gets a mention near the bottom of this SecurityFocus article under the “Little name privacy” header.

February 13, 2006

First Look: Mockup 0.2.0

DistroWatch Weekly has a review of Mockup, a LiveCD featuring KDE and QT 4

February 9, 2006

SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3

Linux.com has a review of the shiny new SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3.

The SimplyMEPIS installer is a bit different from other installers you might be used to. Rather than using an Anaconda-like installer or a text-mode installer like Debian’s or Ubuntu’s, you install SimplyMEPIS using a custom MEPIS installer after you boot into a live CD environment.