Category: Desktop

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Kubuntu/Ubuntu LiveCD News

A note here about the Dapper Drake (6.10) Ubuntu/Kubuntu release LiveCDs. Looks like they’re finally going to add an installer onto their LiveCDs. While this already exists on their LiveDVDs, it would be nice for the DVD-less computers. Also it would be nice if the installer ran from inside the Live environment, like it does on Knoppix, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, or others.

Free CDs for Kubuntu through shipit should be available for the next release if the planned Live CD Installer removes the need for a separate install CD.

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Fighting FUD With Humor: A review of “Moving To Linux” 2nd edition

Mad Penguin dot org has one of the longest book reviews of a tech book I’ve ever seen. Despite it being long, it is actually an entertaining read (so far, I’m not done yet), and it includes a review of the LiveCD the author of the book created, WFTL.

His distro takes you to a home page with hyperlinks to his very own Linux Users Group, where you can get great support from a community that he has created from scratch. When I first started using Linux as a simple end user in late 2000, my greatest concern was where to go to ask stupid questions in the event that my Linux guru friends were too busy to take yet another tech support call. It certainly would have been nice to have a resource like Marcel’s community available back then.

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BeOS rises from the grave, takes the name ZETA

NewsForge has an article about the BeOS-based ZETA LiveCD.

It’s Halloween, and what better way is there to celebrate than by reanimating a dead operating system on your PC? The zombie of choice this year is the ZETA Live CD 1.1, the first free download to bring the long-lost BeOS back from the grave.

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Featured Distribution of the Week: LG3D LiveCD

DistroWatch.com’s distro of this week is the LG3D LiveCD. Go read the review.

Your first reaction after booting into LG3D is likely to be that of awe. The panoramic background, 3D visualisation effects of the taskbar and windows, specialist 3D applications such as the background selector on the screenshot below – all these are likely to lead to several hours of exciting desktop entertainment.

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Run With The Big Dogs On Chubby Puppy Linux

LinuxPlanet has a review of a modified Puppy Linux LiveCD.

Chubby Puppy Linux “fills out” the regular Puppy Linux release with the addition of the OpenOffice.org suite of applications. It’s a full figured Linux version in a fast, lightweight liveCD package.

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USB FlashDrives The New PC?

Slashdot has a link to an entertaining article about the future of computers belonging to removable flash drives and hard drive-less computers. While there are still some obvious roadblocks such as limits to the number of writes, speed, and capacity, these are being improved daily. I’d like to have my customized operating system with all my documents, pics, and music with me wherever I go.

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MitraX live CD

Linux.com reviews the MitraX LiveCD. Looks like an interesting LiveCD, it even comes with the Offile NT Password and Registry Editor, in case you need to reset a password on a Windows machine.

MitraX boots notably faster than similar live CD distributions. In less than half a minute, MitraX boots into the FVWM-95 desktop, which looks like Windows 95 and works in a similar fashion. This is a smart choice because it is practical and lightweight. For this kind of distribution, it’s more than enough.