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Posted on February 22, 2008

Book Excerpt: Get Your Multimedia on in Knoppix

LifeHacker has an excerpt from the second Knoppix Hacks Book, and asks for comments about everyone’s favorite LiveCD.

Posted on April 11, 2007

Damn Small Linux book set for July

CLICK brings news about a new book all about Damn Small Linux. This will be the first LiveCD book for a distro other than Knoppix, or LiveCDs in general (at least that I know of).

Posted on February 2, 2007

Red Hat Magazine Book Review

Red Hat Magazine reviews the first book dedicated to remastering a variety of different LiveCDs.

Posted on August 3, 2006

New book explains Ubuntu to non-geeks

DesktopLinux.com has a quick review of a book which comes with an Ubuntu LiveCD.

Posted on April 13, 2006

Linux Bible 2006 Edition review

Gnuman.com has a brief review of the Linux Bible 2006 Edition. Inside it covers some different LiveCDs.

Posted on April 12, 2006

Moving to Linux, Second Edition

The Linux Tutorial has a review of Moving to Linux Second Edition, a book based around learning Linux with a LiveCD.

The CD contained in the book is a somewhat modified (by Gagne’) version of a Knoppix Live CD. The best you can do is take Linux out for a test drive on your Windows box.

Posted on March 28, 2006May 19, 2006

Knoppix Hacks: Scan for Viruses

As seen on Digg, O’Reilly has posted a hack from their Knoppix Hacks book showing how to use a Knoppix CD to scan a Windows machine for viruses.

Posted on March 3, 2006May 19, 2006

Book Review: Knoppix Hacks

InfoWorld has a short review of Knoppix Hacks, my personal favorite LiveCD book.

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