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Old 03-10-2007, 11:04 PM   #1
ninadb
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Live cd on laptop for daily usage

Hi

I am looking for a live cd distro for daily usage and preferably work.
The usage will more of personal like
Surfing
listening to music/viewing videos
programming as a hobby
I will sometimes need to save the documents created

Any suggestions are welcome

Ninad
 
Old 03-10-2007, 11:51 PM   #2
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My recommendation is Slax. It's very customizable, making the addition of packages easy. The loosely structured packaging system means that it is comparatively very easy to get to the restricted codecs so difficult in other distros. This may be important since you list music/videos.
 
Old 03-11-2007, 06:12 AM   #3
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Yeah Slax or Knoppix is awesome for that

Slax
http://www.slax.org/

Knoppix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix
 
  


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