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Book Excerpt: Get Your Multimedia on in Knoppix

Posted on February 22, 2008

LifeHacker has an excerpt from the second Knoppix Hacks Book, and asks for comments about everyone's favorite LiveCD.

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Damn Small Linux book set for July

Posted on April 11, 2007

CLICK brings news about a new book all about Damn Small Linux. This will be the first LiveCD book for a distro other than Knoppix, or LiveCDs in general (at least that I know of).

Red Hat Magazine Book Review

Posted on February 2, 2007

Red Hat Magazine reviews the first book dedicated to remastering a variety of different LiveCDs.

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New book explains Ubuntu to non-geeks

Posted on August 3, 2006

DesktopLinux.com has a quick review of a book which comes with an Ubuntu LiveCD.

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Linux Bible 2006 Edition review

Posted on April 13, 2006

Gnuman.com has a brief review of the Linux Bible 2006 Edition. Inside it covers some different LiveCDs.

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Moving to Linux, Second Edition

Posted on April 12, 2006

The Linux Tutorial has a review of Moving to Linux Second Edition, a book based around learning Linux with a LiveCD.

The CD contained in the book is a somewhat modified (by Gagne') version of a Knoppix Live CD. The best you can do is take Linux out for a test drive on your Windows box.

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Knoppix Hacks: Scan for Viruses

Posted on March 28, 2006

As seen on Digg, O'Reilly has posted a hack from their Knoppix Hacks book showing how to use a Knoppix CD to scan a Windows machine for viruses.

Book Review: Knoppix Hacks

Posted on March 3, 2006

InfoWorld has a short review of Knoppix Hacks, my personal favorite LiveCD book.

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