Seeking lightweight liveCD with truecrypt and xfce or lxde desktop
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Check out their website. http://www.slax.org/ It's a distro that is intended to be run as a live distro, not as a try out. If you run it on usb you can save your data on to the usb thumb drive, so it works like a hard drive based install. In addition it is as quick as some of the standard distros available. I'm not sure what you are wanting the live distro for, but if it's to do more than just taste various distros then I would definitely test drive it. Live cd's are generally going to be slower than the installed version (in my experience) so it's kind of misleading. Slax was just QUICK from the get go. It's based on slackware like ubuntu is based on debian. My experience with slax led to me going full time with slackware which I absolutely do not regret. The instructions for getting up and going with slax are on the website.
Check out their website. http://www.slax.org/ It's a distro that is intended to be run as a live distro, not as a try out. If you run it on usb you can save your data on to the usb thumb drive, so it works like a hard drive based install. In addition it is as quick as some of the standard distros available. I'm not sure what you are wanting the live distro for, but if it's to do more than just taste various distros then I would definitely test drive it. Live cd's are generally going to be slower than the installed version (in my experience) so it's kind of misleading. Slax was just QUICK from the get go. It's based on slackware like ubuntu is based on debian. My experience with slax led to me going full time with slackware which I absolutely do not regret. The instructions for getting up and going with slax are on the website.
Sweet! I'm definitely going to look into this.
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by the trooper
You do know the current version of Knoppix uses the Lxde desktop now?
Yes, I know of Knoppix. It's a very nice distro, and I've been using it for a few years now. But once in awhile I like to explore my options, and discover new distros.
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