ac_dispatcher Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 More and more Linux Distro have their own "Livecd" What I find interesting is that more and more are Hard Drive installable Livecd's. I for one think its a good idea - IT boots up and you check if it works for your system. If its all good click.click its installed on your hard drive. Mepis is a good example here. It worked well with my Laptop and install flawless. I think its the future of most Distro's What say you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdoggsv Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 yes man this live cd thing its going wild , i use a damn small linux livecd (its a lot ligther) and it has his install on harddrive option, so i put it on my laptop and it did a pretty nice job installing itself !!! also puppy its pretty damn good :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 I concur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 I concur, and awesome example of this is the Archie, Arch Linux LiveCD which completely rocks :D hwd does kickass hardware detection, and my hd install gui coming up in 5.0 is gonna rock :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 (edited) Kanotix and Archie are the best liveCD's I have stumbled on... Damn Small is also cool for old machines. Never liked Mepis, sorry for that. Since you use it on a laptop, what about wifi, CPU throttling, advanced ACPI functions and suspend-to-something? With Mepis they never worked on my Acer LMi 291, while with Kanotix it was a piece of cake. Edited May 24, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 Well what i don't understand is why they overload live cd's? I mean come on, these things run slow enough as it is, do we really need the latest KDE/gnome and a bunch of useless apps on it? I'd like to see some live cd's with fluxbox or XFCE as the default window manager that would rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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