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View Poll Results: LiveCD Distribution of the Year
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Knoppix
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498 |
39.59% |
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SimplyMEPIS
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88 |
7.00% |
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PCLinuxOS
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58 |
4.61% |
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SLAX
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170 |
13.51% |
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DamnSmall Linux
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116 |
9.22% |
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dyne:bolic
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7 |
0.56% |
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MandrakeMove
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17 |
1.35% |
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DNALinux
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3 |
0.24% |
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Feather Linux
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3 |
0.24% |
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Morphix
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11 |
0.87% |
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Suse Live
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33 |
2.62% |
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BeatrIX
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5 |
0.40% |
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Gnoppix
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5 |
0.40% |
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Kanotix
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59 |
4.69% |
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Ubuntu Live
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185 |
14.71% |
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01-28-2006, 02:37 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,518
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LiveCD Distribution of the Year
What is your favorite LiveCD?
--jeremy
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01-28-2006, 02:54 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: NC USA
Distribution: Linux Mint "Nadia" - Cinnamon Flavored
Posts: 267
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Ubuntu's live cd prompted me to do a full install. Needless to say I was impressed. Found all my hardware and my network and worked 100%. It has my vote!
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01-28-2006, 10:33 PM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Distribution: CentOS 5.3, Mac OSX 10.6.8
Posts: 70
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What is a good live cd that
1) can find and auto config DHCP
2) can fit on a 650MB CD
3) and is for a guy who knows linux like the back of his hand
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01-29-2006, 11:18 AM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: pikes peak
Distribution: Slackware, LFS
Posts: 2,577
Rep:
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Originally Posted by italiano40
What is a good live cd that
1) can find and auto config DHCP
2) can fit on a 650MB CD
3) and is for a guy who knows linux like the back of his hand
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have you tried the LFS live CD?? |
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01-29-2006, 11:31 AM
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#5
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Spain
Distribution: FC5
Posts: 1,993
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I'm torn between Knoppix and SystemRescueCD (can't check if that was on the list since I already voted the first option) The first is a very complete selection, recognises everything I need it to and has several GUI choices. The second is fast, small, but very complete if you know how to work from the cli.
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01-29-2006, 05:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Distribution: CentOS 5.3, Mac OSX 10.6.8
Posts: 70
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if you have a dhcp for your internet Knoppix is not for you
I tried LFS and i didn't like it
I need something that is like linspire live that autoconf your internet and screen size
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01-29-2006, 07:28 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Paris
Distribution: Slackware forever.
Posts: 2,178
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So much choices!
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01-30-2006, 07:34 AM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Florence, Ky
Distribution: CentOS 3.3-4, OpenBSD 3.3, Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, Novell Open Enterprise Server
Posts: 213
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Why is the ubuntu live cd listed when the Suse live cd is? I vote +1 for ubuntu live
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01-30-2006, 07:41 AM
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#9
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Korea
Distribution: Debian unstable
Posts: 17
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Ubuntu Live CD
Works for me every time without a lot of switches at the prompt, like in Knoppix. Add it to the poll, please, and cast my vote for it.
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01-30-2006, 08:27 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,518
Original Poster
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Added Ubuntu Live.
--jeremy
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01-30-2006, 12:42 PM
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#11
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Lebanon
Distribution: RHEL 5/CentOS 5/Debian Lenny/(K)Ubuntu Is Dead/Mandriva 10.1
Posts: 664
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Having Knoppix around is like having a medkit for computers with you...I always rescue those poor windows users with broken pcs by booting with knoppix and copying their data before formatting...they always get those big wtf is this eyes when they see it  |
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01-30-2006, 12:48 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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If we're talking about using it as a livecd and not installed then it has to be my first ever linux distro.
SLAX.
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01-30-2006, 01:43 PM
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#13
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 16
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I like Kanotix. Good hardware detection, nice selection of programs and utilities.
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01-30-2006, 02:05 PM
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#14
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 855
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Knoppix is a classic, but Slax fits in my time manager...
I was impressed with the boot time of Archie, by the way - and the power of Freesbie.
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01-30-2006, 02:52 PM
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#15
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Puerto Rico
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 176
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PC Linux OS is the best Live cd and more complete it could be the best distro but needs some working on the installer.
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