News from the LiveCD World
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.
LinuxPlanet has a review of a modified Puppy Linux LiveCD.
Chubby Puppy Linux “fills out” the regular Puppy Linux release with the addition of the OpenOffice.org suite of applications. It’s a full figured Linux version in a fast, lightweight liveCD package.
DistroWatch has a few words on the new Mandrake Move, I mean Mandriva Linux Discovery Live.
Linux.com reviews the MitraX LiveCD. Looks like an interesting LiveCD, it even comes with the Offile NT Password and Registry Editor, in case you need to reset a password on a Windows machine.
MitraX boots notably faster than similar live CD distributions. In less than half a minute, MitraX boots into the FVWM-95 desktop, which looks like Windows 95 and works in a similar fashion. This is a smart choice because it is practical and lightweight. For this kind of distribution, it’s more than enough.
DistroWatch’s Featured Distribution of the Week this week is the excellent Puppy Linux. Puppy is a lightweight LiveCD worth checking out by everyone.
Amnews.com has a general review of SLAX.
Redmondmag.com has a review of Winternals Admin Pak 5.0, which comes with ERD Commander.
At the heart of the Admin Pak collection is the ERD Commander, a bootable CD that gives you a Windows-like environment—regardless of which version of Windows is on the machine you’re trying to fix.
Linux.com has a short review of Auditor. Includes a good walkthrough of instances where Auditor can be used.
Many security engineers arrive on a client’s site and find that the network documentation required for solving the task properly is incorrect or even obsolete.
GNUMAN.com reviews MCNLive. A clean looking distro, check out the control panel in some of the screenshots.
MCNLive is an XFce (version 4.2.2) based distro, that is more compact (200 MB) compared to running it on KDE. XFce is light weight and with any live CD that is made with the most essential tools and that can be trimmed to fit on a USB stick
Amnews.com reviews the PCLinuxOS .91 LiveCD.
Eweek is running a story about MEPISLite. Overall very positive, and while it is probably about the distro being installed to the hard drive, MEPIS has a history of using a LiveCD to install itself.
Gnuman.com has a compact review of the security LiveCD PHLAK.
The XFCE desktop is nicely laid out, the menu easy to navigate and the taskbar buttons very helpful. PHLAK comes with some really nice documentation, available from the ‘PHLAK security documents’ icon on the XFCE taskbar or the Fluxbox menu.
Linux.com reviews Buffalo Linux, a LiveCD based on Debian.
Gnuman.com reviews the new Linux+Live DVD.
One thing I could honestly say about this distro is wow. I’ve seen programs that come as part of this live DVD that I never heard of, like kover to make cd covers, there are so many tools included in this one DVD that I could go on for pages talking about what is included.
OSNews.com takes Gnome 2.12 for a test drive using the Gnome LiveCD and Foresight linux.
PC Magazine reviews NTFS read/write code for Linux. It comes with its own bootable cd, and they even review it using a Knoppix CD. In short, it works, it costs money, and I can’t find downloadable source code or the acronym GPL anywhere.
Flavio’s TechnoTalk reviews Elive 0.3. Good screenshots too.
DistroWatch.com is featuring Elive as distro of the week. Check out this review, then go download it and make your OS X friends jealous.
tuxmachines.org reviews the recently free Linspire LiveCD. If you missed the giveaway, you can read about it and pretend like you got in.
I was quite surprised at what I found. …or more accurately, how I felt about what I found.
OSDir.com has a review of Elive. If you like visual effects, you owe it to yourself to try Elive. The screenshots are good, but don’t come close to actually using this desktop.
In a few moments the Elive desktop was loaded. Unlike earlier versions of Enlightenment the vertical curtain effect was not present. Elive uses the ‘elive’ theme as opposed to the Enlightenment default. Wow, where do I start with this crazy desktop. Beautifully polished would be a fit description. It is truly only rivaled by OS X.