News from the LiveCD World
Linux.com reviews DSL-N.
According to Distrowatch.com, Damn Small Linux is the most popular microLinux distribution. What began as a toy project to stuff the maximum software inside a 50MB ISO file has matured into a refined community project known for its speed and versatility.
INC.com has a great article aimed at business managers. It is probably one of the most balanced Windows vs. Linux comparisons I have seen.
The Linux world has come up with some utterly painless and riskless ways for any average Joe to give Linux a test drive–on your own PC, in as little as a few minutes, no expertise required. Go for it. It’s easy, it won’t cost you anything, and if you’re at all in touch with your inner nerd you might actually have some fun. What’s more, it just might end up being the first small step in a revolution in the way your company approaches technology.
OSVids.com has a new video of Damn Small Linux 3.0.
Damn Small Linux 3.0 is out! Two major changes include the addition of SSHFS and UnionFS. Check out all the changes here.
ReviewLinux.Com has a screenshot-filled review of Mandriva One.
A ZDNet.com blog has a long but entertaining story of Windows file recovery using Knoppix.
Tuxmachines.org has a review of the new SimplyMepis release candidate.
DistroWatch Weekly reviews all the popular BSD LiveCDs available for download.
GNU/Linux live CDs are increasingly playing an important role in the free software community. They serve as advocacy tools, they make it possible for newbies to try out software without having to install anything and they make fantastic rescue disks. While all the best known live CDs are GNU/Linux variants, there are also several *BSD live CDs out there. I decided to give them a test run.
ReviewLinux.Com reviews GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1. Lots of screenshots to go with the review.
KDE Dot News has an interview with Tomas Matejicek, the creator of SLAX.
What are you most looking forward to about the 4.0 release?
Tomas: Wobbly windows by using 2D acceleration (without 3D cards).
OSDir.com has screenshots of SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Beta 5.
Tuxmachines.org also has a short review of Puppy Linux 2.0.
Tuxmachines.org has a solid review of Knoppix 5.0.1, and as always, include bucketfulls of screenshots.
Phoronix has screenshots of the new Knoppix.
Manila Standard Today has an intro to Linux via the Ubuntu 6.06 LiveCD.
The Age has an introduction to Knoppix.
Linux.com has a thorough article on customizing Dynebolic.
DesktopLinux researches all the new stuff in the new Damn Small Linux release.
OSDir has recently posted many screenshots of new releases, here they are:
Notice the installer icons on the desktops of all the *buntu screenshots.
The long awaited Knoppix 5.0.1 release is out! This is the first release of Knoppix 5 since the CeBIT 5.0 was released. So far only the DVD ISO is out, but there should also be a CD ISO.
From the Changelog:
* V5.0.1-2006-06-01 - Current Debian/sid snapshot - Kernel 2.6.17-rc*git* - Removed XFree86 in favour of Xorg Version 7.0 - Detection of onboard IDE-Raid Controllers and raid disk components - udev+hwsetup for automatic hardware detection - OpenOffice 2.0.2 (german+english) - Replaced Mozilla by Firefox+Thunderbird - KDE 3.5.2 with HAL support for removable media - Updated unionfs to 20060221 - cloop 2.04 with ringbuffer (performance) - limited but safe transparent write access for NTFS partitions (libntfs+fuse) - new knoppix-installer now also with the possibility to update existing installations of Knoppix - [DVD] Gnome 2.12 update - [CD] because of space reasons :-( , removed chromium, enigma, KDE-helpfiles, ruby, bison and some other development-related packages (we still have JAVA and C/C++, Perl, Python and PHP on the CD, in order to have an easy to set up LAMP system).