News from the LiveCD World
Open Addict reviews Damn Small Linux 3.2.
Under the hood, DSL features the 2.4.26 kernel compiled with SMP support. The system had no trouble recognizing the hardware on our test laptop and booted to the desktop in around 30 seconds. DSL is committed to remaining useable on older hardware. In fact the minimum system requirements for this distro are just a 486DX with 16MB of Ram.
Phoronix has screenshots of the Foresight LiveCD, showing the new Gnome desktop.
TriedIT reviews the Enlightenment-destkop-based Elive 0.6.5 LiveCD.
Ubuntu Tutorials shows how to save some time getting the daily builds of Ubuntu Feisty.
Phoronix has screenshots of the new Freespire.
TalkBMC takes Knoppix 5.1.1 for a spin on a cartload of different laptops.
Back to the drawing board: what LiveCD distro is out there that uses KDE as the primary desktop, but is stocked with best of breed apps appropriate to the questions the lab is asking and answering? Knoppix would seem to be the obvious answer.
Polishlinux.org reviews the Metisse window manager recently made available by Mandriva on a LiveCD?
Linux.com reviews the Sidux LiveCD.
Sidux aims to be the best Debian sid-based live CD — and it succeeds. It offers a clean, easy hard disk install and a fast release cycle.
PerformancePC reviews the latest version of Puppy Linux.
Though worthy Linux distributions from Ubuntu and SUSE run very well, they are also rather large collections (though certainly not as bloated as Windows is!) and this has led to the creation of some smaller incarnations like Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux. The best of these lite Linux versions, though, has got to be Puppy Linux, which, in its 2.14 version, shows that it can run very comfortably with the big hounds.
IBM Developerworks has a great how-to for building your own Fedora LiveCD.
Though Fedora Linux® is a popular and mature Linux distribution, and many people have created Live CD distributions based on Fedora, the Fedora project itself didn’t released its first official Live CD until December 2006. Learn how to build your own custom and easy-to-use Live CDs using a rewrite of Pilgrim, the Fedora Live CD creation tool.
Desktop Linux reports that a new version of SystemRescueCD is out and now included NTFS-3G 1.0 .
SIDUX 2007-01 screenshots by Phoronix.
KnoLinux review the Sabayon Linux 3.26 LiveDVD. Lots of screenshots and an installation walkthrough are included.
Linux.com reviews an interesting new LiveCD designed for learning software security.
“The main idea behind DVL,” says Schneider, “was to build up a training system that I could use for my university lectures.” His goal was to design a Linux system that was as vulnerable as possible, to teach topics such as reverse code engineering, buffer overflows, shellcode development, Web exploitation, and SQL injection.
LinuxQuesitons has screenshots of Damn Small Linux 3.3 RC1.
Tadpole Linux needs a logo. Fire up imagemagick and win a $75 gift certificate.
Tadpole Linux is a LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo Linux. Its aim is to provide a Linux experience for use in elementary schools for grades Kindergarten to about Grade 6.
Brad’s Blog has instructions for creating a LiveUSB OS X install.
DistroWatch is announcing a new release of Puppy Linux with some significant changes.
This new Puppy has major improvements in the underlying architecture as well as the applications, and some new applets created by Puppy enthusiasts. Finally we have embraced the XDG menu system, our new PET package management system is further refined. New applets are Pfind (file finder), and Grafburn (CD/DVD burner).
Blogbeebe reviews Knoppix 5.1, included are a few screenshots.