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For regular users who can no longer boot their Windows host, I need to find a Linux distribution with the following features:
Available as a live USB keydrive
Mainsteam distribution, so that it's well maintained
Full French UI, from booting all the way to X. This is important, as an English UI is no go for users who can't read/aren't comfortable with English
Once in X, it must be able to mount NTFS partitions, provide a good file manager, and a good CIFS/FTP client so that users can recover data and send them to a remote host before reinstalling Windows safely
Based on the Wikipedia list, I zeroed in on the following distros:
RPM-based: Fedora, PCLinuxOS, Red Hat, Suse, CentOS, Mandriva/Mageia
Gentoo-based: SystemRescueCD
Debian-based: Knoppix, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), MEPIS, Ubuntu
Do you which of those solutions satisfy the requirements?
Run a search at distrowatch.com for the following characteristics:
OS type Linux
Distribution category Live medium
Country of origin France
Status Active
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Mainstream live distro with French UI?
