I've changed the title of the poll to simply Live Distribution of the Year, as it does more accurately reflect the nature of the poll.

--jeremy

I just started playing around with Sabayon and it is amazing.

These varieties are not equal. DVD or USB-Flash have much bigger amount of memory available (currently 4-8 Gb on DVD, 1-8 Gb on USB Flash) and therefore can offer much more feature-rich distros than old good ancient CD's.

Generally I was not talking about portability things at all. What I mentioned was that while historically Live CD's were the first ones of this kind of distros, now IMHO it is not necessary anymore to narrow Live distro category to just LiveCD.

What's wrong with simply calling them "Live distros" meaning that they are ready to work without any additional installation process? Being physically on CD is not essential for this classification

Great! I was just writing about that, but now it's OK already

True, I just meant that I haven't actually seen any live Distro *not* available in CD format. While it may no longer be the best term, I don't think "LiveCD" in necessary obsolete.

--Edit--
Although, upon further review :-), I think the name change was more appropriate. Oh well, 20/20 hindsight.

I think Gparted LiveCd hands down

Hard to say. I like Kubuntu a lot, but I'd go for Mandriva One 2007. More stuff worked out of the box, has better translation into Slovenian language and Mandriva is the first Live distribution where XGL and 3D desktop worked out of the box. Not to mention a new version of Mandriva, that is available on USB key.

Fedora's official LiveCD is great, but not an option. The unofficial (Fedora Unity) LiveDVD is even better.

I like SLAX because I can shape it the way I want and I have all the packages I want.

i voted for knoppix since its what i have been using mostly. but gentoo is better since all my seniors prefer it and gentoo (not the live one) i think is the coolest OS once you configure and install it right. i have heard you can two-fold your machine performance if you configure gentoo right while u install. i dunno the facts since i have never installed one, but i am as soon as i get my hands on a new machine. heh.

Everyone has a live cd these days But I give props to Knoppix since it has gotten me out of more then one Jam.

i vote for knoppix

I voted for Puppy, as it is very light, & still quite complete, however, for testing & diagnosticing purposes (other people's PC), I also use a lot SimplyMepis & PCLinuxOS...

MandrivaMove doesn't exist no more.

Now it's Mandriva ONE.

Greets.

I use powerful live CD "Dyne:Bolic".