A reader comment in last week's LWN, requesting a more detailed round-up of the available tools for building custom live CDs, inspired today's feature. Although there are more than a hundred bootable ...

While still considered in Alpha stages, Ark Linux LiveCD certainly was interesting especially with its design of being used for system recovery and demonstration purposes. The LiveCD variant is also ...

Scientific Linux Live CD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. This Live CD is based on Scientific Linux 4, which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 ...

As a longtime fan of Linux, I’m a big believer that most business users would benefit greatly by dumping Windows and switching over to the open source operating system instead. It’s stable, it’s ...

One of the great features of many Linux distributions is the ability to test them out before committing to installing them on your hard drive. Live distributions can be burned to bootable CDs, DVDs, ...

In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. Today, a vast number of ...

Knoppix is one of the oldest Linux distributions still around, and it was one of the first Linux Live CD distributions. If my memory is correct, the first generally available release of Knoppix (on a ...