best Live CD for laptop

sihanux · 11-15-2006, 06:50 PM

Hi all, looking for Live CD for laptop. Any suggestion?

jacook · 11-15-2006, 07:04 PM

Could you give us some system specs please?

something lightweight, is usually the way to go:

BeatrIX
http://www.watsky.net/download.html

feather Linux
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/

Vector Linux 4.3
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slax
http://www.slax.org/download.php

if you want to look at others try:

Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntu.org/

Mandriva move

http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/otherdownloads/move

PCLinuxOS .92
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/dist...glish/preview/
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distr...glish/preview/

This is the distro I use and recommend, Why because it works right out of the box. No need to configure Everything, everything just works. It also comes as a 1 CD install that is a live CD that you can install later if you wish.

Mephis
http://www.mepis.org/

Hope this Helps

Jake

kstan · 11-15-2006, 08:14 PM

I recommend 2,
ubuntu- especially acer laptop. It solve your acpi problem and you can detect you battery correctly
backtrack-best for test network, and it allow you to do system recovery. Plus it allow you to boot everything from ram. So you can get lighting fast performance.

doublescoop · 11-16-2006, 12:12 AM

My favorite is Knoppix
Can't post a url yet

but you can easily google it.

craigevil · 11-16-2006, 12:42 AM

It really depends on the laptops specs, if its older then something like Puppy; if it is a newer high end laptop then pretty much any Livecd should work reasonable well. I would suggest PCLinuxOS or Kanotix.