Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs 339
nick58b writes "After searching the Internet and not being able to find a list of all available Linux Live CDs, I decided to create one. In its current form, it attempts to makes finding a Live CD easy. There are nearly 100 Live CD distributions listed so far, with functions ranging from clustering to home entertainment, and ISO image sizes from 5 to 702 Megabytes."
Growing Distros (Score:5, Insightful)
We dont need more LiveCDs! (Score:4, Insightful)
There are too many of them, the more there are, the more fragmented they become and therefore less tested, resulting loads of crap cds with poor hardware dectection, buggy apps and does not bode well for Live CDs.
So if you want to make one, DON'T, help fix the bugs on the major ones, such as Knoppix and MandrakeMove, and let the other ones die unless they have a Good Reason to exisit (such as ClusterKnoppix or Knoppmyth) rather than just being a YALCD (Such as Mepis and Gnoppix)
Re:Growing Distros (Score:5, Insightful)
A DVD would provide a stretched-limo kind of Live CD experience though.
Re:Growing Distros (Score:2, Insightful)
Pretty nice list havent used Linux for a while though. Maybe I'll find a PPC version to play with for my laptop.
More than half based on Knoppix (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Growing Distros (Score:3, Insightful)
It's easy for everyone to play the bandwidth argument, but the parent never suggested it was for download, just that it was available.
Re:We dont need more LiveCDs! (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:only 702 MB??? (Score:4, Insightful)
What would be a really a help for us, DVD-/+R/RW users is to have some sort sort of "LiveDVD HOWTO" describing how to build your own LiveDVD.
It could be useful for Gentoo users to burn it with all packages required and later use on the computer without a network (yes, sill there are such sometimes). Other Linux distros can benefit as well.
Also it could be useful to create a backup LiveDVD. Later it could be used to boot and restore the failed system.
It's a great list (Score:4, Insightful)
Particulary if you, like me, are just poking into this Linux thing and want to test several different versions without having to invest in a sexond harddisk or get rid of my still fully working Windowns installation. I'll definitly be spending using a lot of my bandwidth to download some distros this weekend *smiles*
What I miss, however, is beeing able to see what minimum hardware requirement the various LiveCDs need without having to look at each one that looks interesting. Can't have everything I guess.
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Re:Think "applications" (Score:2, Insightful)
You know, history is actually a feature if you're not surfing porn...
Re:only 702 MB??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Duh! This is exactly the problem that BitTorrent is designed to solve!
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History is repeating itself. Thin Client anyone? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Linux's Killer App? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:History is repeating itself. Thin Client anyone (Score:2, Insightful)
With a thin client/terminal server system, you would have a fully running server which you could connect just about any hardware to. However, if you were down at the local computer shop and wanted to test compatibility, would you lug your server down there? How about if you were at a friends house and needed to fix a local HDD problem using a more useful program than DOS fdisk?
No, these CDs are NOT thin clients. They are temporary fat clients.
Re:Growing Distros (Score:4, Insightful)
Interesting Paradigm (Score:3, Insightful)
I wonder what other "progress" in computers could be improved by using ideas from the past.
Re:We dont need more LiveCDs! (Score:4, Insightful)
"He's using Linux...It's another operating system that tries to copy what Windows does, but generally only computer-people use it because you have to write your own programs for it."
At this point, my Mozilla window came up, but the graphics were really distorted because Knoppix hadn't set up the S3 driver for my video card, so it was using vesa or fbdev. It was pretty much unreadable.
"Well, it's really slow, and most of the time stuff doesn't work...[to me:]Why do people use it anyway?"
I just said that I was a little too upset to answer right now. Later, we discussed why I was so upset about it. I told her that I was running the version from CD to diagnose something, so it's naturally slower and not as good as it's supposed to be. I said that it's like she had come up to someone who has a flat tire by the side of the road, and she asks for a ride. The person may say OK to try to be nice and help out, but while you're riding along, you're complaining about how this car has terrible ride quality and doesn't corner well and is really bumpy.
I am trying to learn to use Linux, but it has been a slow-going experience because I am doing it on our secondary computer that doesn't have great hardware. Even Windows doesn't auto-detect my ISA sound card, but it comes with a driver disk that makes it work. I could go spend the $20 each for a new video card and new sound card, but I figure I would like to learn more about how to overcome problems like this and how to search for answers to this stuff online.
Re:Wishlist... laptop power... ftp home dirs... (Score:1, Insightful)
You mean ssh/sftp, right?