Hive Five Winner for Best Live CD: Backtrack
The winner to LifeHacker's Best Live CD poll is the excellent security focused Backtrack.
Lifehacker readers apparently love a live CD that is all work and no play. Backtrack, a security-oriented live CD packed with useful tools, took home the crown for top live CD.
Hive Five: Five Best Live CDs
LifeHacker readers have chosen their top five Live CDs and are now voting for their favorite.
Hive Five Call For Contenders: Best Live CDs?
LifeHacker is taking votes for the best LiveCDs. Go vote!
This week we want to hear about the Live CD tools that have made your life easier, saved you time, or both.
Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
HowtoForge shows you how to turn your favorite Linux into a bootable USB Flash drive.
Is it the End of the Road for Live CDs?
Free Software Magazine asks if the era of Live CDs is starting to wind down. I personally can't see this happening until USB flash drives are as inexpensive as CD/DVD media, and even then, the era of Live USB flash drives will be flourishing.
I was window shopping in a high street electronics store a few days ago. I was delighted to see a shelf display full of netbooks from vendors like Samsung, Acer, Dell, Advent and Asus (of course), to name a few. It looked like the Asus EeePC had launched an idea whose time had come and in the process possibly heralded the long withdrawing roar of the live CD.
Featured Download: Puredyne Turns Any Computer into a Multimedia Powerhouse
LifeHacker's featured download today is pure:dyne, a LiveCD developed for media artists.
Debian Lenny with Blu-Ray Images and Live CD
Linux Magazine Online lets us know that Debian will have official LiveCDs with the 5.0 release.
More news about Lenny is that the Debian-Live team headed by Daniel Baumann is working on official live images. With these distributions users can employ Linux off the CD without needing to install it.
Heard at SCALE 6x: Damn Small Linux moving to Firefox 2
CLICK has news that DSL will get Firefox 2.
Firefox in DSL will move from the current version 1 to the GTK 1 version of Firefox 2. Thats a big deal because a lot of Web sites require at least Firefox 1.5 for full functionality. It means, for one thing that itll be possible to use Google Docs and Spreadsheets with Damn Small Linux.
DIY Linux live CD – the really easy way
DesktopLinux.com has pics and news of Custom NimbleX 2, which allows anyone to customize and then download a LiveCD ISO of NimbleX. Get to it directly at http://custom.nimblex.net/ .
Linux: It’s Not Just for Servers Anymore
Wired gives credit to LiveCDs for the rise in the popularity of Linux desktop computing.
Part of this growth can be chalked up to the trend of the LiveCD, a bootable disk image that users can download and burn to a CD to test the software. Most of the popular Linux makers release software on LiveCDs, and many also ship physical CDs to curious users anywhere in the world for free or for a nominal fee.
Firmware Updates LiveCD thanks to Revisor
Some interesting news from the Direct2Dell Blog, a Fedora based LiveCD has been created to help update the BIOS of your Dell. This is much nicer than having to install Windows or a floppy drive to grab a new BIOS.
openSUSE LiveCD Installer
snorp.net has news of an openSUSE LiveCD Installer. Hopefully this makes it into the next LiveDVD, or they do what Fedora did and convert their 6 CD set into a single installable LiveCD.
KIWI – OpenSuse’s re-spin creator
/home/liquidat shares some information about OpenSuse’s re-spin creator. Support is included for creating LiveCDs, LiveDVDs, and LiveUSB flash drives with OpenSUSE.
Everyone can easily create his own version of Fedora with the re-spin tool Revisor. OpenSuse also develops a tool with a similar purpose, KIWI.
19″ Linux Digital Photo Frame Kit
LXer has a link to this digital photo frame kit running Damn Small Linux. It includes WIFI, so you can probably SSH into you photo frame.
GOSHEN, Ind. – RedPost inc., an Indiana-based tech startup, today announced the launch of RedPost/Kit, a do-it-yourself digital photo frame kit that comes with everything you need to get up and running.
Puppy Linux targets sub-$100 mini-PCs
DesktopLinux.com tells of how Puppy Linux is being used on low cost PCs with PXE booting and settings saved to USB flash drives.
Following the addition of PXE network booting to the ultra-lightweight Puppy Linux distribution, a group of enthusiasts offering Puppy customization and support services has revealed plans for "Minipup," a project aimed at ultra-low-cost diskless hardware such as sub-$100 PCs.
Create your own custom NimbleX LiveCD
DistroWatch Weekly has news of NimbleX's new web LiveCD configuration tool. Choose the packages you want, then download your custom NimbleX ISO.
DistroWatch Weekly
DistroWatch Weekly has some good LiveCD news in the Miscellaneous News section, including links to a 64-bit build of Knoppix 5.1.1.
Debian Live n Google SoC
Something to watch for, Google's Summer of Code is sponsoring a graphical utility to create custom LiveCDs!
My proposal is to construct a graphical user interface that can be used in conjunction with live-helper to build Debian Live systems, allowing editing of existing configurations and including a 'wizard'-style walkthrough for the first-time user.
Providing less experienced users with the opportunity to easily create live distributions will generate more exposure for live-helper, providing more valuable feedback for its developers and ultimately helping Debian's image as an extremely flexible and free operating system.
Why linux live cd are important? How useful is it?
Linux by Examples uses the SLAX LiveCD to perform some data recovery and repair on a couple broken Windows machines.
FreeSBIE — first (and mostly negative) impressions
CLICK reviews FreeSBIE, and has some issues getting networking setup.
But I'm not a full card-carrying geek, so I'm not all that crazy about going to the command line with no help whatsoever just to get freakin' Internet flowing into the box with a live CD I've never run before on an OS I've also never run before.