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Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary

Posted by timothy on from the guerilla-marketing-tool-of-choice dept.

prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech published a review of 4 Linux live distributions that do not require installation and run off a CD. Knoppix, Feather Linux, Gnoppix and MEPIS Linux were researched, with Knoppix winning the competition (and Gnoppix not graded, since it's still in beta)." One more (of the seemingly infinite number of live distros) I've recently tried and been happy with is called Slax, and is what it sounds like -- a live Slackware distribution. Slax worked great with my finicky older Toshiba laptop. (However, slax.org appears to be down.)

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  1. wow. by SinaSa · · Score: 5, Funny

    "However, slax.org appears to be down."

    Obviously the sysadmin for the slax.org webserver is some sort of psychic and chose to take the site down than receive a slashdotting.

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  2. Slashdotted? by zonix · · Score: 4, Funny
    Slax worked great with my finicky older Toshiba laptop. (However, slax.org appears to be down.)

    So, slax.org seems to have been slashdotted before the actual story was posted? Hmmm, I'd say that's a rather curious temporal anomaly? :-)

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    1. Re:Slashdotted? by CleverNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, slax.org seems to have been slashdotted before the actual story was posted? Hmmm, I'd say that's a rather curious temporal anomaly? :-)

      I suggest modifying the forward http array to emit an inverse slashdotyon pulse into the heart of the anomaly.

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  3. Re:Live CD's run slowly, users don't understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think Knoppix is slow? Imagine a bootable gentoo cd. It compiles the applications when you click on them. But its faster. Or something like that.

  4. Re:Damn Small Linux by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    At which point you rename it:
    Small Linux--Damn!!!

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