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Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving?

Posted by timothy on from the insert-your-favorite-winter-holiday dept.

trustedserf writes "This year I am including a bootable Live Linux CD in many of my Christmas cards. As I'll be making the copies myself I may even change the default desktop background to something personal, or Christmasy before running it off on cheap CD-Rs. The objective is to show people the easiest possible route to using a linux desktop so that they will be: A) Aware and B) Pleasantly surprised. About Christmas they may also have more time to try it out too. Naturally, I'm thinking of Gnoppix, but there are other options.. I use KDE, so I have to decide between it and Gnome. Bearing in mind my objectives, what distro would you choose. Also, importantly, is it possible any of them will damage their hardware (monitors with incorrect refresh etc.) I would be *very* unhappy if that happened. How many of them would fail to boot, leaving a bad impression? Which way would you go about it for maximum "WOW"."

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  1. best? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    windows-xp-professional-with-keygen.iso

  2. other alternatives to Live CDs by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd skip the Linux live CD and give a charitable donation to The Human Fund instead. It's much more meaningful.

    1. Re:other alternatives to Live CDs by mordors9 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, I can remember anxiously opening up a card from a relative when I was younger. This Aunt was always good for a check for $20. What do I find but a card that says she donated to some charity in my name. Not sure if meaningful was the word that sprung to mind.

  3. Re:Stuff it with games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got an AOL 9 disk for christmas last year from my cousin. Needless to say he's getting a present from my cat's litterbox this year.

  4. Buy them a Mac by Romeozulu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which way would you go about it for maximum "WOW"."

    Buy them a Mac

  5. Re:Think Again by Lord+Kano · · Score: 4, Funny

    About 11 years ago, I got so sick of my relatives getting me clothes for Christmas that I declared that if anyone every got me clothes again, I'd reward when with an NRA membership next Christmas.

    I have a family full of Democrats, I never got clothes from them again.

    LK

    --
    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  6. Re:Think Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a Democrat who hunts...
    Can I have your address? I have a lovely cardigan that you *must* see.

  7. Re:you must be the tech guy in your family by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way I could get any of my in-laws to run it would be to send it to them in a fake email that says they need to run it to secure their bank account password.

  8. Re:Stuff it with games by digitalgiblet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm guessing his name is Albert Orville Lewis, and he always signs his cards with his initials: AOL. Man I've been getting this guy's CDs for YEARS.