We missed an Ask Slashdot last month having everything to do with LiveCDs! Better late than never…
Give System Woes the Boot
A hybrid ABC News/PC Magazine article explains what the Ultimate Boot CD and UBCD4Win are, and their uses.
Give an Internet Freedom Disk
Slashdot is linking to a blog post where the names Linux and LiveCD are dropped in favor of spreading “Internet Freedom Disks” to non-techies.
Mandrake founder rolls Debian-based distro
DesktopLinux brings news and screenshots of Ulteo, a new distro created by the founder of Mandrake Linux.
This installable live CD is based on Debian and Ubuntu packages. It’s installed on the hard-drive using ‘Yuch,’ he added.
Via announces community computing push
The Inquirer brings news that Via is training people in the Philippines with their hardware and Puppy Linux LiveCDs.
Attendees will assemble a PC on their lonesome, boot it with an ADOC Puppy Linux live CD, test it for e-learning applications and repeat the set-up for other users.
Carry hard disk in a pen drive!
The Times of India is reporting that BeleniX, a Solaris based LiveCD, is now bootable from a USB Flash drive.
“You can now buy a thumb drive, visit the BeleniX website and mount the whole OS on to it. You can then carry this with you and use it. We’ll now work on enhancements for future versions,”he said.
The KANOTIX distro implodes
This week’s DistroWatch Weekly is bringing attention to troubles with the KANOTIX, which are detailed over at tuxmachines.org.
DistroWatch Weekly
DistroWatch Weekly has some news on a new tool used to create LiveCDs for Fedora. This will be replacing Kadischi for future LiveCDs.
Those who enjoy remastering the distribution for their own purposes will be excited to learn about “pungi” and “pilgrim”, two tools that will allow building custom distributions and live CDs/DVDs.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Introducing AstLinux,
VoiPPlanet introduces the AstLinux LiveCD as a quick way to get Asterisk running.
Download the live CD image, burn it to disc, pop it into a PC and boot up. If you enter the usbkd boot option, AstLinux will save data and configuration files to a USB device.
Run Linux for free on your USB stick drive
HEXUS.lifestyle has a quick overview of setting up Linux on a USB device with links to pendrivelinux.com.
Kororaa Project – GPL – The Final Word
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.
Desktop Linux distributions — from A to Z
DesktopLinux.com has started a list of “especially interesting” desktop distributions. Most all of them are available in LiveCD or LiveDVD form.
GParted Now Supports Moving Partitions
Announced in the latest DistroWatch Weekly, the latest GParted LiveCD has added support for moving partitions.
Protecting wireless networks
ComputerWeekly.com mentions BackTrack as a quick way to run Kismet in their article on wireless security tools.
PCLinuxOS Magazine September 2006 Initial Issue
One of the first Linux distros to make its primary installation method a GUI app on a LiveCD, PCLinuxOS, now has an online magazine.
Puppy Linux Received $350 from DistroWatch
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.
Indian produces science CD in atomic lab
India News showcases VigyaanCD and the creator behind it. The project homepage is here.
But Agarwal believes the tool would help youngsters have their first brush with a range of hi-tech tasks of a new century-gene sequencing, manipulation, molecular modelling and simulation and computational chemistry.
How do you dispose of old hard drives?
Computerworld Blogs gives some quick advice for destroying the data on old hard drives.
Tiny, sub-$100 PC runs Puppy Linux
LinuxDevices is reporting on this Pentium 166 computer which, while being able to run several versions of Windows, has Puppy Linux as the recommended OS.
Puppy Linux celebrates its success
DesktopLinux is reporting that Puppy Linux is holding an online event with the purpose of bringing the community together. Everyone from developers to end users are invited to give ideas on making Puppy Linux better.