NewsForge is announcing the release of gNewSense 1.0, downloadable as a LiveCD.
Update: Ars Technica also has an article on this new distro.
Xfld 0.3 Screenshots
Phoronix has screenshots of Xfld 0.3, an Ubuntu based LiveCD running the latest release of XFCE (4.4-rc1).
BackTrack 2.0 Beta
The BackTrack security LiveCD has released a download link for the beta of version 2.0.
SlashGear Exclusive – Interview with GeeXboX
SlashGear has an interview with one of the core developers of GeeXboX.
First look at Elive 0.5
DistroWatch Weekly takes a look at one of the most visually impressive LiveCDs available.
Ubuntu 6.10 is (almost) Out
The new Ubuntu LiveCDs are being announced on Ubuntu.com. While the link is still pointing to the 6.06.1 release, ISO images of 6.10 are currently propagating throughout the Ubuntu mirrors in a hidden folder called .pool, which happily has full read access. The new Desktop CDs (LiveCDs as they’re known around here) boot significantly quicker than previous releases, which makes them much more attractive for LiveCD tasks than they were previously, and worth the 698 megs of download.
Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released
Fedora Unity Project has released Fedora Core 6 LiveCDs and LiveDVDs.
A Live-Spin CD or DVD provides a “reasonably useful web browser/email/OpenOffice access,” said Jef Spaleta, long time Fedora community member. It “should be a good quick peek at what the FC6 desktops feel like … without having to do a full install.” He added, “9 out of 10 voices in my head agree: ‘Unity’s Live-Spin CD is a pretty good starting point for future live CD development.'”
Xen – A GPLed Virtualisation Technology for Linux
All about Linux has the second review of the Xen Demo CD today. It includes some instructions on starting up a Xen instance.
PCLinuxOS 0.93a – Installation; General Use
free-bees.co.uk reviews the current PCLinuxOS 0.93a family.
First Looks: Xen Demo CD 3.0.3
DistroWatch Weekly contains a review of the new Xen Demo CD.
Xen Demo CD is a bootable CD containing not one, but three Linux distributions – a recent build of Debian “etch”, SUSE Linux 10.0 and CentOS 4. Its main purpose is to demonstrate the wonders of virtualisation, or in less technical terms, the technology of running several operating systems (or several instances of the same operating system) simultaneously on the same machine.
HOW TO: Dual-boot XP and Vista
APC Magazine includes some information on WinPE and the GParted LiveCD in their instructions on dual booting Windows XP and Vista.
Mandriva 2007 Review
This Mandriva 2007 review at Linux Forums has a short section involving the LiveCD install of the new Mandriva release.
I booted on the Mandriva One CD, noticed nice boot splash sequences, answered one too many questions about my favorite language, keyboard layout, home country, time zone, favorite time synchronization method, I signed a user license agreement and told Mandriva One I didn’t want to activate the 3D effects (I didn’t, because I wanted to keep that as a surprise for when it would be running from the hard-drive).
Sabayon Linux miniEdition looks sharp on the bleeding edge
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.
FreeSBIE 2.0 PRE-BETA Release
DistroWatch is reporting the testing release of a new version of FreeSBIE.
pfSense 1.0 Firewall Released
Slashdot is announcing the release of the m0n0wall based pfSense 1.0 Firewall LiveCD.
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.
A Windows Users Delight: PCLinuxOS
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.
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.
Elive on The Linux Action Show!
Episode 16 of The Linux Action Show! Podcast contains talk about the Enlightenment window manager using the Elive LiveCD.
Super-Simple System Recovery
SmallBusinessComputing.com reviews Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition 6.5, which utilizes a Windows PE LiveCD to perform system restores of broken systems.
You probably don’t need to be told how important — make that critical — it is to regularly back up your company’s data. But it’s almost as important to have complete system backups as well, because desktop systems have become complicated beasts — containing updates and patches, user profiles, application preferences and myriad other customized settings. Restoring these can take hours or even days, during which time you have an unproductive employee.