Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs

nick58b writes "After searching the Internet and not being able to find a list of all available Linux Live CDs, I decided to create one. In its current form, it attempts to makes finding a Live CD easy. There are nearly 100 Live CD distributions listed so far, with functions ranging from clustering to home entertainment, and ISO image sizes from 5 to 702 Megabytes."

Comments

Cool

[ObviousGuy]

Thanks.

Now to go load these guys on all the computers at Best Buy!

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Great! You take Best Buy, I'll install it on all the Ataris at the Goodwill store.

Business Card Distros

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember a friend going up to a girl in a bar, opening his wallet, pulling out a business card CD and saying "Get a load of my distro". Let's just say she wasn't interested.

Re:Business Card Distros

[mattjb0010]

I remember a friend

Right... that's why you posted anonymously.

Re:Business Card Distros

[CreatureComfort]

Yeah, but when chatting up a girl in a bar, do you REALLY want to flash your distro and admit that it's "Damn small"?

Thanks!

[ryanw]

Thank you for your efforts! To repay you we will saturate your bandwidth and overload your server.

Re:Thanks!

[krumms]

To repay you we will saturate your bandwidth and overload your server.

I, for one, welcome our new bandwidth saturating server overload.

Re:Sorting the Distros

[byolinux]

I, for one, welcome our AC Beowulf overlords.

(I've just found out about freecache.org - does this mean that http://freecache.org/http://www.frozentech.com/con tent/livecd.php should help if/when this guy gets /.d?)

Bioinformatics

[mattjb0010]

Interesting that there are two bioinformatics-tailored liveCDs. Now I can BLAST into my work at a remote PC in an instant :)

Re:Bootable DVD?

[Ziviyr]

Every Tuesday it should rain parachuted bricks of gold in my back yard.

I'm not sure much is stopping you from making a Live DVD now.

Re:Missing Primary Function Category

[Ziviyr]

Hmmm, any live CDs based around porn-get yet?

Slight Boo Boo

[fyrestrtr]

Found this Copyright (C) 2004 by Nicholas Brand on IE 6 at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, good list :)

Re:We dont need more LiveCDs!

[byolinux]

That page is full of broken links, and it's a little old.

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/netboot.html works for me.

Our Bandwidth Saturating Overlords?

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them ... (wait for it!) ... it'd be called a slashdot!

*rimshot*

For those with Linux installed . . .

[user no. 590291]

. . . has anyone published instructions on how to make a Windows 2000 live CD :)?

Re:Growing Distros

[ozbird]

(also, compressed loopback was buggy at large sizes last time I heard it was tried)

A Live DVD wouldn't need a compressed filesystem - 4.7GB should be enough for any Live distro. :-)

gratuitous mention of Gentoo post

[garbagedisposal]

quick somebody mention Gentoo ...oh wait!

Re:Forgot Finnix!

[AbbyNormal]

That was informative? Huh.

Okay, I now know the guy, that knew the guy who created Finnix.

Re:Growing Distros

[His name cannot be s]

...I believe just about everything you need should be able to fit on a 800mb disk

I've heard this before... waitaminute...

Got It!

640K ought be enough for anybody

:p

Re:Growing Distros

[sharkey]

I believe just about everything you need should be able to fit on a 800mb disk.

Yeah, right. 800 millibits = 0.8 bits = .0008 megabits = .0001 megabytes. That's pretty small.