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DistroWatch Weekly

Posted on November 28, 2006

DistroWatch Weekly has some news on a new tool used to create LiveCDs for Fedora. This will be replacing Kadischi for future LiveCDs.

Those who enjoy remastering the distribution for their own purposes will be excited to learn about "pungi" and "pilgrim", two tools that will allow building custom distributions and live CDs/DVDs.

Filed under: Fedora, News No Comments

Sabayon Linux 3.2 Review

Posted on November 27, 2006

Techgage has a review of the soon to be released Sabayon Linux 3.2. Included are many screenshots of this impressive distro.

nUbuntu 6.10 Released

Posted on November 22, 2006

A new version of nUbuntu, a distro focused on network security and available in LiveCD form, has been released.

BartPE helps get files back when computer crashes

Posted on November 21, 2006

The ChronicleHerald.ca has an article on creating a BartPE LiveCD for system recovery.

Filed under: BartPE, How To, Rescue No Comments

VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Introducing AstLinux,

Posted on November 14, 2006

VoiPPlanet introduces the AstLinux LiveCD as a quick way to get Asterisk running.

Download the live CD image, burn it to disc, pop it into a PC and boot up. If you enter the usbkd boot option, AstLinux will save data and configuration files to a USB device.

Filed under: AstLinux, News, Server No Comments

Preparing for Vista

Posted on November 14, 2006

PC Advisor details the steps needed to setup a computer to dual boot Windows XP and Vista. The tool used is the GParted LiveCD.

If you don't have a partition manager, download an ISO image of the GParted Live CD from gparted.sourceforge.net and burn a CD from it. This is a free partition manager based on Linux and an essential addition to any serious PC user's toolkit.

Collax Takes Appliance Approach

Posted on November 14, 2006

eWeek is reporting that Collax has released their latest offering in LiveCD form for customers to test.

The installation disk for Collax Business Server is freely downloadable and doubles as a LiveCD, so the product is rather easy to take for a spin.

FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0

Posted on November 3, 2006

NewsForge is announcing the release of gNewSense 1.0, downloadable as a LiveCD.

Update: Ars Technica also has an article on this new distro.

Xfld 0.3 Screenshots

Posted on November 2, 2006

Phoronix has screenshots of Xfld 0.3, an Ubuntu based LiveCD running the latest release of XFCE (4.4-rc1).

BackTrack 2.0 Beta

Posted on November 1, 2006

The BackTrack security LiveCD has released a download link for the beta of version 2.0.