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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
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.
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