Do you want to have your own Live-CD?

Submitted by tong on Fri 20 Jan 2006

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No, I don't.  <-> 20%103 votes
Yes, I do, but haven't tried any Live-CD yet.  <-> 11%56 votes
Yes, I have tried at least 1 Live-CD.  <-> 15%75 votes
Yes, I have tried more than 3 type of Live-CDs.  <-> 40%201 votes
Sure, I've made my own Live-CD!  <-> 12%64 votes
Total 499 votes

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#1
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Fri 20 Jan 2006 at 10:04
Does "have" mean "own" or "create"?
I use Knoppix, but I don't create my own live cds..

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Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by tong (67.71.xx.xx) on Sat 21 Jan 2006 at 22:56
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Oh, I mean "create" one's own Live-CD.



I mean, maybe you don't want certain tools included in the distro, removing them will make your Live-CD works faster. maybe you want tools xyz but there are not included in the distro. Feel free to add them -- make it your own Live-CD, which suits your very need. Linux is all about freedom. This is the freedom that Windoze user can't even dream of.



tong

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#2
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (141.85.xx.xx) on Fri 20 Jan 2006 at 11:46
A second version of a very tweaked UBCD! :)

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#3
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by schwarzemann (209.168.xx.xx) on Fri 20 Jan 2006 at 16:10
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I've tried a couple of Live-CDs for various purposes, mostly to do a "dry run" of a distribution while I was trying to select my Desktop OS. The one I use the most is Damn Small Linux (DSL). My home setup has a box running Sarge connected to my stereo and running MPD. Since the computer is off in a corner, and more importantly because it has no keyboard or monitor connected, I use an old PII-233MHz laptop to control the playlists etc. Unfortunately the laptop's hard drive is dead so I can't install an OS. I experimented with several Live-CDs but DSL was the only one "lightwieght" enough to run smoothly on my antiquated hardware. Since all I ever do with it is remote administration of my server and lite surfing of the web DSL, with its limited amount of software, is perfect for my needs.

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Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by tong (67.71.xx.xx) on Sat 21 Jan 2006 at 22:59
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"The one I use the most is Damn Small Linux (DSL)."



Yeah, me too think that it is the best Live-CD so far. Can you customize it? I.e., remove/add packages?

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Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by schwarzemann (209.168.xx.xx) on Mon 23 Jan 2006 at 15:10
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I don't know if it can be customized. Considering how I use it, the idea has simply never crossed my mind.

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Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (81.179.xx.xx) on Fri 20 Jan 2006 at 16:24
live cds are such a life saver. I always carry about a knoppix and auditor livecd for testing / fixing broken windows pcs. Recently i have tried out ubuntu PPC on a mac and was suprised at the speed of it once sitting in the desktop. Auditor and "Knoppix Security Tools Edition" has some security orientated software pre-installed and ready to go, default knoppix tends to be a more 'everything but the kitchen sink' affair but each one has its uses.

There seems to be a livecd for everything these days, even on windows, but they arent as good :)

sno

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#5
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by chababkk (58.136.xx.xx) on Sat 21 Jan 2006 at 02:29
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I use Ubuntu 5.10 live CD

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#8
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (4.227.xx.xx) on Sun 22 Jan 2006 at 03:16
Funny I'd run across this just now. I'm a 47 yr-old who's NEVER done ANY programming. Just the other night I was discussing this VERY topic with my WinXP using wife. Kinda went over her head I think :-) but she encouraged me to give it my best shot! I'm still in the "figuring out which packages I'd use the most" mode. But I think it'd be WAY cool to have a custom cd with a kernel that was optimized for MY system!
Ya'll have a good one!
Mark from NE Texas!

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#9
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (85.99.xx.xx) on Sun 22 Jan 2006 at 10:55
Missing option: I'm Klaus Knopper

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#10
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (213.213.xx.xx) on Sun 22 Jan 2006 at 17:15
Kanotix is a great livecd with lots of usefull features & a good selection of programs. Also contains almost every driver you might need. Been sticking to it for over a year now, but installed on the hard drive...

There are already several livecds allowing to configure what applications they contain (klax for instance) & also some scripts to build a livecd from your existing system (mklivecd).

What are you looking for exactly???

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#11
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by tong (70.48.xx.xx) on Sun 22 Jan 2006 at 21:58
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Thanks for sharing the info.



"What are you looking for exactly?"



My own system everywhere. Do you keep all the mail clients or image viewers on your machine? definitely not. I think most people would be like me, over the times, have a preference over which tools to use and how to use them.



Yes, the latter part is important too -- ie, having the tools work your own way. As I said, Linux is all about freedom. Some people like KDE, some like Gnome. No problem, use whatever you like (for me, I like fluxbox -- simple, elegant and fast). Even for people using the same WM, there are still options. More Windoze like, or more Unix like, Mouse-over window activation, or Click to activate, etc, etc. It is all about choice and freedom. To me, having my own preference means that I can't stand systems that boss me. I want them to obey me and work my way. I'll use the Windoze Explorer under Windoze as an example. It is the most simple app under Windoze, however, any options that you can tweak? To me, sure, lot of them! Size of every part, including window size (left, right and total) and field sizes, view style (list), hidden and system file showing (yes), etc, etc. The longer you've using the tools, the stronger you will have preferences over them.



Customization take much more time than installation. It used to take me days to customize Windoze to my own taste, in every corner of the OS and the apps within, and I really hate spending time on them over and over again, every time after a fresh installation. Yes I do use Ghost, but you have to do the same thing on different PCs.



In brief, Linux enables me to use my own chosen tools in my own way. But that only limited to my desktop. I want exact same tools on my Live-CD as what's on my system, and most importantly, they work the exact same way as on my desktop. By saying Live-CD, I don't mean to limit them to CD/DVD media. They could be as tiny as 50~100M and stays in my USB-pen, and boot up entirely into ram.



More over, the same tools and configuration can be deployed to new PCs if I want, with HW automatically configured, as Live-CD. I can they use them as is, which is already the way I like, no need to spend time on customization again. And most important, I can start apt-get to install optional tools right away.



Are we there yet? not quite. I've been keeping an keen eye on every Debian related Live-CD systems and haven't noticed one that can do all above (yet). -- Hope I'm wrong.



tong

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#14
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by tong (67.71.xx.xx) on Mon 23 Jan 2006 at 17:33
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also some scripts to build a livecd from your existing system (mklivecd)

I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about:



Debian GNU/Linux Live-CD



This project aimes at creating a Linux Live-CD based on Debian GNU/Linux. It does not provide the whole CD-Image, but it provides the program to create the image.




But the latest version of mklivecd is Pre-Alpha and is 3 years old.

tong

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#15
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (70.112.xx.xx) on Tue 24 Jan 2006 at 07:41
I think you might be interested in the debian package "bootcd"

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#13
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (193.254.xx.xx) on Mon 23 Jan 2006 at 16:17
i dream of havin' tool which creates livecd automatically and all one has to do is supply 'dpkg selections' to indicate which packages to include,

perhaps with some kind of .kde savin' :)

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#16
Re: Do you want to have your own Live-CD?
Posted by Anonymous (80.212.xx.xx) on Tue 24 Jan 2006 at 11:01
I have tried Suse, Knoppix, Dsl and Puppy Linux.
And only puppy and dsl are small enough to really be workable from a cd or/and on old hardware.
Both (and especially Puppy) are a lot faster then the other live-cd's.

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