News from the LiveCD World
Linux.com has a review of Sabayon Linux miniEdition 3.0. Screenshots of some 3D effects are included.
Sabayon has earned a reputation for running right on the cutting edge; it is the first distro to deploy a live CD using the Beryl compositing engine and Nvidia’s newest beta video drivers.
DistroWatch is reporting the testing release of a new version of FreeSBIE.
ServerWatch has an introduction to LiveKiosk, a LiveCD created for the purpose of safe broswing for the public.
LiveKiosk is an ingenious Linux-on-bootable-CD that eliminates the need for a hard drive. It runs on any Pentium-II system or better — just boot it up, and away you go.
Really Linux has an overview of PCLinuxOS.
PCLinuxOS offers the flexibility of being both a Live-cd, and including all necessary components for a full installation. As a Live-cd version it can boot directly from a CD drive without any installation to the hard disk. But more importantly, it includes an easy to use installer that allows you to fully install Linux when you are ready. Of course, as with many major distributions, there are excellent guides on the website for helping use the installer.
The Kororaa Project has released the next version of their LiveCD, and the results of their research into closed source binary drivers being distributed with the Linux kernel. The result is a LiveCD which still has XGL, but only with ATI video cards using the open source driver.
Episode 16 of The Linux Action Show! Podcast contains talk about the Enlightenment window manager using the Elive LiveCD.
WhatPC has an introduction to open source, Linux, and LiveCDs using Damn Small Linux.
We will explain how to try Linux by running the operating system from a CD, not the hard disk, so there’s no need to abandon Windows.
DesktopLinux.com is reporting on the new lightweight Kurumin Linux LiveCD.
DistroWatch Weekly reviews the stable Sabayon Linux 3.0 release.
One new feature in SabayonLinux 3.0 is that hard disk installation is now available via the popular Anaconda installation program developed by Red Hat.
DesktopLinux.com has started a list of “especially interesting” desktop distributions. Most all of them are available in LiveCD or LiveDVD form.
The latest testing version of Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, Knot 3, has been released. The biggest change is the move to upstart, which should eventually benefit every laptop user.
Common to all variants, we have changed the init system from the venerable sysvinit to upstart which is an event-driven init script system.
DistroWatch is reporting the release of two popular LiveCDs, Sabayon Linux and Puppy Linux.
MadPenguin reviews Puppy Linux 2.02.
Lately, it feels like the world is being overrun with otherwise outdated PCs. With landfills overflowing with unwanted computers, it’s great to find that Linux developers have taken it upon themselves to offer a viable solution to simply throwing away older computers. In today’s review, we’ll look closely at Puppy Linux and how well it does from a compatibility point-of-view. Since a number of other reviews have already explained how well Puppy Linux can do with outdated hardware, we figured it might prove valuable to see how well Puppy Linux functions on newer hardware with the needs of today’s notebook user.
DesktopLinux is reporting on a review of PCLinuxOS done by ExtremeTech which we completely missed last week.
Although it suffers from an incredibly boring name, PCLinuxOS has a lot to offer desktop Linux users. It’s a shame that so much utility has to be obscured by a bland name—but hopefully the developers will decide to rebrand this distribution under a catchy name.
I never had a problem with the name, but then, it is quite different than Beernix.
OSNews has a review of Syllable.
Syllable 0.6.1 is the latest incarnation of the operating system that “will be a reliable and easy-to-use GPLed operating system for the home and small office user” as their website states.
DesktopLinux is announcing a new LiveCD for KateOS.
“It [v3.0 Live] is a great demonstration of our system’s possibilities,” the Poland-based team said in the release announcement. “It can also come very handy when trying to rescue another system.”
One of the first Linux distros to make its primary installation method a GUI app on a LiveCD, PCLinuxOS, now has an online magazine.
The latest DistroWatch Weekly is announcing the donation of $350 to the Puppy Linux project. The author of Puppy Linux responded that he will put the money towards hardware instead of pizza and coke.
Techgage has a review of the new Gentoo 2006.1. Included are many screenshots of the LiveCD and the GUI installer in action.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full six months since 2006.0 was released. Time indeed flies. The regular Gentoo release schedule is one per six months, and with this current release they hit the schedule dead on. This release doesn’t introduce anything major, but there have been many improvements that we will be getting into.
The Fedora Unity Project has released Fedora Core LiveCDs and LiveDVDS. Currently they have FC5 and FC6t2 available for download.
Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are calling “Live-Spins.”