I have been toying with the idea of creating a Live Linux distro using a morphix base that would be for newbies. The distro would contain all major linux programs and then present them in a way that makes it clear to understand. I will also include a set of tutorials for the software to make it easy to use.

My reasoning for this is that whenever I try knoppix i still don't think its as user friendly as it could be and it misses some crutial software and guidance.

So my question... Is there already a distro out there like this and would I be wasting my time creating it.

Boffy

This may have already been done.

Marcel Gagne has written a book (Moving To Linux(Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodby!))

Included with the book is a live CD-ROM with Knoppix. The applications are explained in the text of the book. He is a great writer.

The SuSE 9.1 live CD is great.. though there is not a lot of tutorials... I think that would be a cool idea to make a live distro for the main purpose of running tutorials... Such as Bash tutorials.. using different levels of knowledge... If youimplement that right you could become incredibly popular... If the tutorials were easy to follow and informative enough... Good Luck

Thanks. I'm gonna give it a shot. Even if it fails its a project. Does anyone have any idea where I can get storage for the ISo when/if it gets done.

You will probably need to buy hosting and put up a project site. Then once people see how cool your distro is they will donate space on their servers as mirrors. I agree with halo14, the SuSE 9.1 Live is a great live distro for newbies, but it is still fairly rough on an older machine. Don't get me wrong, I run SuSE 9.1 Pro as my desktop OS, but on the machine listed below it still maintains speed. SuSE is kinda big for a Linux Distro.

Marcel Gagne writes great articles, but the whole French Chef thing bugs the hell out of me. It makes his articles harder to read, constantly trying to sift through the bull to the meat of the article. /rant.