On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 07:19, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I'd > ask for recommendations on where to find a list of live cds.
My first stop usually is http://www.distrowatch.com, then I search for livecd: http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Live+CD#distrosearch I have tried live versions of OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, Ubuntu (and Mint), Knoppix and a couple others, and the one that seemed to "just work" on most of my PCs was Ubuntu. Knoppix came in a close second, but I'm not a big fan of KDE, Knoppix's default manager. PCLinuxOS and the others all needed ndiswrapper for my wireless, and OpenSUSE got my video height wrong and showed only the top half (after loading the proper drivers it works, but just not out of the box). Another neat demonstrator is PenDriveLinux (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/). Their claim to fame is running from a USB stick, and as long as the destination PC can boot from USB, you're in business. The advantages of LiveUSB versus LiveCD: Faster boot time since the USB stick as a higher transfer rate. The CD drive is not occupied, so demonstrations of CD/DVD operations can be performed. The package takes up less than 700MB, leaving room to save configurations and even installed apps. Ubuntu's LiveCD includes an app to make a LiveUSB. Larry _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
