I need an office Linux LiveCD to give it to Windows users. By "localized" I mean that its program menu is translated to a language that a user chooses. By "fast" I mean that it boots fast from an optical disk. I don't need it to contain programs with low RAM and CPU requirements. I need it to contain popular programs like Firefox and LibreOffice.

So I have tried some recent distributions from The LiveCD List. Boot time from the end of BIOS boot to the appearance of the program menu is in the table below.

distribution | boot time, minutes:seconds
PuppyLinux | 01:20
HandyLinux | 02:08
Debian | 02:30
Austrumi | 02:56
Ubuntu | 03:37
Mint | 03:37
Emmabuntus | 04:29
Sabayon | hangs
Knoppix | hangs

Unfortunately, PuppyLinux, HandyLinux, and Debian do not offer to choose a language. Actually, PuppyLinux asks for a language, but it remains in English after I choose Russian or Ukrainian. Also PuppyLinux asks too many questions and is too complex for an inexperienced Windows user.

I chose Ubuntu, but maybe there is a choice I missed?

Try this beautiful slackware derivative, it has russian and ukrainian locals... and most of all it runs *Slackware*!

nastruvya

I does not ask for a language too. GUI is in Latvian, I guess? So I tried hard to find how to reboot.

It is silent for 2 minutes during boot, black screen, no DVD drive activity. This is why its boot time is unusually high.

Is this distro going to be installed to a hard disk drive, or it will be run as a live CD only ?

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LiveCD only.