best live-cd distro?
 

whats your opinion.
dont say it depends on what you use/want it for.

i want to know what YOUR favorite is, and why.

i vote gnoppix. gnome-based knoppix.

Mepis
 

Ease of hard disk installation

Responsiveness of online forum (and creator)

I like SLACKWARE-LIVE.
A legend created on another.

i had forgotten mepis, and i didnt know slack had a live one.

Slackware actually has two. The second Slackware installation disk can be booted off of as a live rescue disk.

The other is a seperate project called SLAX, formerly known as Slackware-live. It's a relatively small live-cd distro which, in terms of the GUI at least, is focused entirely on KDE and it's applications. No redundancies like with Knoppix. Only Konqueror, no Mozilla. Only KOffice, no OpenOffice or Gnome office apps. And so on.

Some other popular projects you left off include Morphix and Damn Small Linux. There's also the up-and-coming PCLinuxOS.

i knew i couldnt remember all of 'em.

I voted for Knoppix. You also forgot Morphix - I know it is based on Knoppix, but there are some significant differences. Both are cool.

another vote for slackware live. it boots at least twice as fast as knoppix, and imho is easier to work with. :cool:

SLAX and then knoppix, for more of them:

http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=cd

Yea slack-live gets my vote, then knoppix.

Phlak rules!

Im running it on a p166, 32meg ram, no hdd and a 12x cdrom with an isa nic plugged into my cable modem!

i'd like to see you run kde on that!

MEPIS .. End of story :).

Knoppix, then Morphix but I 've yet to try the Slack one

SLAX, SuSE live, Knoppix

where can i get slack live?
i dint see ti on their website.

Try here http://slax.linux-live.org/ enjoy.

i hope this doesnt sound like im a begger,
but can someone please ship me a cd with slack-live?
ive had alot of trouble lately getting good .iso burns, and i was hoping one of yall might have an extra copy.

^up^

i guess nobody has a spare.

maybe ill go try it myself.
hopefully my cdr drive will actually work right.

Knoppix then Morphix (which I am installing tonight....so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself)

Hi,

drake-live - I presume this is a Mandrake Live CD right?
Where can I get any info on this? I was going to get Knoppix, still am, but maybe I can get Drake-Live so I can test that out as well to see how much I like Mandrake.

Any info?

Thanks.

Just checking the Mandrake site, I presume Drake-Live would be MandrakeMove or something?
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove

Are these two the same, or am I wrong?



Also: I have a Pentium III 333mhz with 128mb sdram. What would be the best Live-CD to use? MandrakeMove says 128mb sdram is fine but it's better 256mb. Knoppix says 96mb/128mb sdram is needed.
Would it be best for me to use any other livecd distro? Would Knoppix be fine for me?

Thanks.

yes, theyre the same. i was typing fast when i put up the poll, and just didnt raelize it.

i would say any livecd should work fine for you.

i have a PII 366mhz with 128MB ram and 16x cdrom, and all run fine for me.
this is my "test" machine.

Ok, thanks questionasker. :)

I think I'll try out Knoppix rather than MandrakeMove since I'm getting Knoppix on Monday, and compared the two and what packages come with both - and a lot more comes with Knoppix than it does with Mandrake move.

Thanks for the help. :)



Edit: Also, by any chance does Knoppix have the window manager Enlightenment? I was looking at all the different window managers and become very fond of http://enlightenment.org/pages/img/e...rm-desktop.png
Thanks. (PS: Does anyone happen to know what theme that is on the Enlightenment DR16 window manager?)

quote:
knoppix desktop=fluxbox|icewm Use specified WM instead of KDE (1)
knoppix desktop=kde|larswm|twm Use specified WM instead of KDE (2)
knoppix desktop=wmaker|xfce Use specified WM instead of KDE (3)
endquote
those are cheatcodes at bootpromt.

no, enlightenment isnt included. just those listed.

Thanks for that.

By XFCE I presume he means this right? http://xwinman.org/xfce.html
Although that's... a desktop, so I'm not sure if that's the correst one. Is there a window manager called Xfce?

Thanks for your help. :)

yes, its a d/e and w/m. the site is xfce.org

Thanks for that questionasker. :)
Yes - I'm on their site, and have been looking at a few screenshots - all of which I think look really cool. I think I'll be choosing Xfce when testing out Knoppix. Might even use it instead of Kde when I purchase Mandrake.

Thanks for the help. :)

wel, if i really was helpful, you can rate the thread...
i usually use something other than kde, but always seem to have to go back to it for awhile evey now and then.

haking live has no root protection so easy to use for recoverys etc. www.hakin9.org

with haking live I copied files from one hd to another hd just connecting the two discs to the computer. Now managing of lilo and no chroot etc. I tried to do this with knoppix, suse live etc and nothing worked.

I like the Gentoo live cd, gives me everything I need for what I need to do and you can install from it too.

I like Gnoppix, actually though. :)

But it is too bad the HD installer does work as expected. :(

I vote knoppix. I thought knoppix so good that I installed it to hard drive and bought five other flavors of it. Its very up to date to sum it up and is going places (I like it better than SuSE or MDK even). My only critique is partitioning. That is where linux can learn from FreeBSD

KANOTIX BHX , I like as the best all around live distro.
I have not tried KNOPPIX 3.7 yet , but I'm sure its a winner.
PHLAK is also good for its intended purpose.
I'm waiting for the latest MEDIAINLINUX which needs improvement but is going somewhere.
All Debian based systems which say something for DEBIAN.

never even heard of a few u go there
but i go with KANOTIX, SAM, PcLinuxOS

I think Kanotix and PCLinuxOS are two best all-rounders. I prefer Kanotix to Knoppix and Mepis because Kanotix is pure Debian unstable, while the other twos mix their sources. Which doesn't matter so much if you're only using the apps on the CD, but it makes a difference when you think of a live CD mainly as a base to install to HD... which I do. Also, Kanotix and PCLinuxOS both make installation to HD quite easy. I should also mention Zen Linux, it is also pure Debian and it seems very promising but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't recommend it at this point.

I also really like deadcd, which comes with Fluxbox and just a few applications. It is very useful on lower-range machines, say PII with 128MB of RAM. LiveCD with a full-blown KDE desktop would actually work on that machine, but it would be painfully slow. Deadcd is quite snappy (for a livecd, that is).

Finally I have to mention Berry - a Japanese livecd based on Fedora. Apart from having decent hardware detection and selection of applications, the version I've got came with the picture of a cutest kitty as a wallpaper. And let's face it, in the end it's all about looks!

AFAIK, Mepis is more or less pure Debian Testing. All I know is that it CAN handle a dist-upgrade without shattering like Knoppix.

I voted for knoppix, although I 've never used knoppix. But i use knoppel which is a Greek version of knoppix and is really cool. As far as i know there is no other difference between those two than the fact that knoppel has by default Greek support and the menus in kde and O.O. are in Greek

Navyn-OS is the perfect gentoo based, fluxbox modified live-cd too..
SAM is the perfect MDK based with XFCE4.2 modified less than 300mb.

Mepis 3.3 its now full debian I heard

SLAX - gr8 liveCD

PC Linux OS

It is an installable distribution. But runs as a Live-CD.

It is polished and smooth. Unlike other installable live-CDs it is not just a way to install Debian. PCLinuxOS has its own mirrors, where once installed you can add and update from a large repository of software.

However the software on the live-CD is well chosen, and it as easy to install. What you see on the LiveCD is what you get when you install, it just runs slower from CD.

It's great to show your windows-addict mates.

Mainly it is expertly integrated, and just the job for media-freaks. The only thing missing from the live CD is "libdvdcss" to decrypt DVDs, but this is on the mirrors as soon as you install.

KNOPPIX .....JUST