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Live Distribution of the Year

A new category this year. What distribution do you think is best suited for a live environment?

--jeremy

Knoppix, they kind of created this category didn't they?

picked Porteus, even though Salix is also a LiveCD distro and what about AlienBob's Live Slackware?

I like having SystemRescueCd nearby - it's been very handy a number of times

Toss up between antiX and SystemRescueCD, so I voted for antiX.

sysrescue as it has gparted in it. I use an older one

Grml, all year every year. The true swiss army knife of Linux live for sysadmins and repair techs.

Have a spare desktop from 2007 in the recycle heap, and wish it were running FOG, or Smokeping, for you to throw it on a network? 10 minutes with grml-debootstrap.

Have a failing hard drive and need to recover data? Grml has you covered with ddrescue and testdisk/photorec.

Need to work on a RAID array or LV? You know grml gonna have both mdadm and lvm (but it won't start them by default, because it doesn't want to risk damaging your data)!

Want to throw up a temp PXE server and (for example) simultaneously DBAN a whole 30-machine computer lab? Grml includes tftpd and 2 (count 'em) different DHCP servers!

smartmontools, memtest86, kpartx, nwipe, clamav, chntpw, iperf, nmap, tcpdump.... the list goes on. At the moment, I have trouble thinking of a single Linux-based hardware or network utility that I've ever needed, anywhere, that's not included in grml.

You can have both x86 and amd64 together on your DVD, selectable at boot time. It boots even on cranky old Mac EFIs. It boots you right to a handful of password-less root and non-root ttys running screen, gpm and zsh; no GUI unless you ask. More convenience is hard to imagine.

I have pretty much stopped using all other bootable tools except grml. I carry with me a multi-boot USB key created with YUMI, but all I ever seem to use it for is grml :D Having used grml for years now, I've only scratched the surface of its features. I can't praise its creators highly enough. Thank you for reading :)

Am I missing something, or shouldn't Puppy be here?

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann (Post 5805171)

Am I missing something, or shouldn't Puppy be here?

I would agree puppy should be on there.

but antiX should win. Best liveUSB anywhere. (MX Linux also uses the antiX live USB system)

Plop linux. An obscure one-off distro that works for me. plop.at.

I can't vote, my favorite live distro is not there. I like liveslak.

Well,

For what you normally use a LiveCD for (i.e. rescuing data from failing drives/RAIDs and/or correct a configuration that is stopping your system from booting), I usually prefer Hiren's.

While it isn't a true LiveCD Linux distro, it does have PartedMagic's "Linux Rescue Environment" available to boot into which has helped me out of a number of issues. Also, it has a mini-WinXP to boot into to handle issues specific to Windoze.

But, now I am going to have to take a look at grml. (Thanks, dabreese00! :cool:)

I voted Slax, however I prefer AlienBob's Live Slackware.
For fast recovery I usually use the usbboot.img in the slackware installer from a USB drive.

Slackware Live Edition.

We send out a USB Recovery Flash Drive with liveslack with every Linux Appliance we ship, even when we install CentOS 6 on the Appliance.

Thanks Alien Bob !

-- kjh

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Originally Posted by khronosschoty (Post 5811180)

I can't vote, my favorite live distro is not there. I like liveslak.

I assume that by using the name "Slackware Live Edition", LQ adheres to the naming convention for the Live OS ISO which has been generated by my liveslak scripts.

Edit: oops, I should have started reading the newest posts...

Now that it has been added can I change my vote to, Slackware Live Edition?
Thank you.

As mentioned elsewhere, votes cannot be changed once placed.

--jeremy

Why Lubuntu isn´t in the Distribution list?

Debian Live.

I used to use Knoppix, they invented it and are and remained good.
But since Debian also has live images I have not found need anymore for it. It can also be used to go on and install Debian onto hard disk from.

Seeing it's not in the list I guess it's little known? Am a bit amazed about that.

Antix for me. Just boot it and go from there without having to touch the hard drive if you don't want to.