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MapFS makes its debut

NewsForge has a writeup on the new MapFS filesystem, and some of its uses. One use looks very similar to UnionFS or Copy-on-Write, which already allow users to modify any files on their LiveCDs.

One possibility Dennis and Stahl mentioned is a set-up that can run off a live CD. According to Stahl, they would like to see users have the ability to change things that run off a CD, and MapFS would make it easier to facilitate such a use. He said that by populating the view so that it refers to all the files on the CD, and setting up a temp directory to be used for the copy and write target, users would be able to modify any of the files on the file system.

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OpenSolaris liveCD boots into Xorg/XFce

LinuxDevices.com has a nice overview of Belenix, an OpenSolaris LiveCD.

The liveCD represents the Belenix project’s first release capable of booting into a graphical environment. The project hopes to follow up eventually with support for hard drive installation.

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Gentoo Linux Newsletter — October 24th, 2005

Oops, missed this from last week, Gentoo released a new version of their LiveCD for SGI machines with support for more SGI hardware, like the SGI Origin fridge-sized computers. I would have tried a joke about nobody using old SGI hardware, except there are two Origins running across the hall of my office, happily (slowly?) performing web and DNS services.

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Fighting FUD With Humor: A review of “Moving To Linux” 2nd edition

Mad Penguin dot org has one of the longest book reviews of a tech book I’ve ever seen. Despite it being long, it is actually an entertaining read (so far, I’m not done yet), and it includes a review of the LiveCD the author of the book created, WFTL.

His distro takes you to a home page with hyperlinks to his very own Linux Users Group, where you can get great support from a community that he has created from scratch. When I first started using Linux as a simple end user in late 2000, my greatest concern was where to go to ask stupid questions in the event that my Linux guru friends were too busy to take yet another tech support call. It certainly would have been nice to have a resource like Marcel’s community available back then.

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BeOS rises from the grave, takes the name ZETA

NewsForge has an article about the BeOS-based ZETA LiveCD.

It’s Halloween, and what better way is there to celebrate than by reanimating a dead operating system on your PC? The zombie of choice this year is the ZETA Live CD 1.1, the first free download to bring the long-lost BeOS back from the grave.

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Featured Distribution of the Week: LG3D LiveCD

DistroWatch.com’s distro of this week is the LG3D LiveCD. Go read the review.

Your first reaction after booting into LG3D is likely to be that of awe. The panoramic background, 3D visualisation effects of the taskbar and windows, specialist 3D applications such as the background selector on the screenshot below – all these are likely to lead to several hours of exciting desktop entertainment.

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An open Studio to Go

NewsForge has a review of Studio to Go.

Open source software developer and musician Richard Bown wanted to make Rosegarden, a popular MIDI sequencer for Linux, available to all people, even if they weren’t fortunate enough to be using an open source platform.

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Remastering a Custom Knoppix Distribution, Part 1

informit.com has a detailed article focused on remastering Knoppix 3.8.

There are many reasons to want to build your own distribution of Knoppix. By doing so, you could have privately-written software distributed in a complete environment, create a reduced toolset for your specific needs (saving valuable space), or explore and release a particular focus (adding to the growing list of pre-fabricated specialized options).

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Dine in geek heaven with Dyne:bolicII

Computerworld has an article with a lot of quotes from core Dyne:bolic developer Jaromil about the new features going into Dyne:bolicII. A lot of work is going into the new release, with the latest packages, new scripts, fast customization, and low system requirements.

Jaromil says the main addition to version two, currently in beta, is that it will include all the compiler tools required in order to modify it.