Category: Releases

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Using a liveCD as your Linux Desktop

DesktopLinux.com posted an article a few days ago about using a LiveCD as a primary OS, or in other words, never installing. This is something that is increasingly becoming more plausible, as memory prices decrease having a LiveCD load into memory becomes faster in many cases than an installed OS, and as long as you still have some kind of media to write to, you can install apps and save documents without fear of losing them from rebooting.

However, many liveCD distros can be used as a day to day desktop without ever installing them to your hard drive.

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Ubuntu Flight CD 2 Released

Ubuntu has released its second test point, dubbed “Flight 2”, of Dapper Drake, Ubuntu 6.04. Scheduled to be finalized in April 2006, this test release has buckets full of new features for both the installed version, and LiveCD versions, which are available for download. Some of the new features of the Ubuntu LiveCD include:

  • a new splash screen – no more asking what keyboard/language to use
  • faster bootup
  • interface improvements
  • new gnome and apps, like Rhythmbox, Firefox, OpenOffice
  • new kernels and hardware support
  • UnionFS
  • some kind of boot performance measurement option

For a better description and screenshots, check out the official description.

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CAELinux: An Open Source LiveDVD for Computer Aided Engineering/Finite Element

Linux Today brings news of a LiveDVD focused on engineering. Based on PCLinuxOS 9.

one solution already exists and it’s called CAELinux: an open source LiveDVD distribution dedicated to professionnal computer-aided engineering & finite element simulations. Now, you need just to insert the CAELinux LiveDVD in your computer to turn it into a professionnal CAE workstation in five minutes: no installation required, no licence fees!

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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.