13 September 2006

Living for LiveCDs

Live CDs - bootable, self-configuring GNU/Linux distributions - are one of the free software world's secret weapons. They not only let you try out a distro before installing it, but they also let you swap between them as easily as swapping CDs. Try doing that with Windows (of which there is pretty much only one main variety, anyway).

So I was pleased to come across LiveCD News to satisfy my hunger for info on this front, one to put alongside the equally indispensable DistroWatch, which plays the same role for GNU/Linux distros in general. (Via Digg.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

See you a live CD, and raise you a USB hard drive:

http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/02/22/2221258.shtml
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?DEPA=0&type=&Description=Western+Digital+Passport&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&Go.x=0&Go.y=0