Zen Linux 1.0 Released

jbltgz writes "Zen Linux 1.0 was just released today. Zen Linux is a bootable LiveCD distribution. More than that it is a 100% compatible Debian installer. It boasts easy remastering for creating your own personalized versions. Most configuration is done automatically upon boot and requires no user interaction, things 'just work.' Zen Linux currently comes in three flavors Core, Gnome, and KDE. Zen Linux is built on the latest Debian unstable repositories and is 100% Debian compatible. You can expect frequent up to date maintenence releases for all supported flavors."

Comments

I don't get it

[reynaert]

It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?

I can see a few uses: it's nice to check out a distribution before installing it, to check if your hardware is supported, as a technology demo or to fix some borked system. So it makes sense there would exist a few different ones for each task. But it doesn't seem to be things you'd use regularly. So why are there so damn many?

Re:I don't get it

[torpor]

It seems every other day a new live-cd is announced, and I don't get it. What's so interesting about them?

In terms of 'what it should mean to us geeks', I think that it means you can now treat your average PC like an average Playstation or XBox, same level of ease-of-use, same degree of utter simplicity: put it in, turn it on, it works, predictably, the same way every time.. only with all the stuff you really, really need to get work done, on one CD, leaving disks and removable media/personal storage devices in the consumer realm where they belong ..

I believe that the Live-CD'athons we're seeing these days are more a reflection of how easy it is to roll your own linux box, and of how many people are consequently coming to understand that, and jump on the band-wagon. Never under-estimate the 'oh, look what I can do' factor of Linux, either .. its pretty much just a dog and pony show. Anyone can make their own Live-CD, truth be known, or distro too ..

And it seems, the days of the crufty OS are over. A user-made/configured LiveCD is a god-send for anyone wanting to use their computer to get work done, and not have to maintain the tyrrany of a disk-based OS/App-base install.

if Microsoft don't start giving folks easy ways to move C:\WINDOWS\ off to a bootable CD, and start playing in this particular arena of 'user-built OS for the job they intend', they're going to miss an interesting technological development. Maybe there is already a way to take a user-created system+apps install in Windows, and put it on a CD, I don't know .. haven't used Microsoft products in years ... but I can say fairly comfortably that Linux Live-CD's are a reliable way to get a very stable system running, tailored to your computing environment.

It seems that the 'Read Only OS Image Days of Stability' are upon us, fairly and squarely .. roll on '-ro' flag, ho ho ..

Re:*ahem*

[jbltgz]

my bad!