Re: looking for a linux live cd that works

From: Brian Hughes (junktoilet1958_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: 12 Nov 2004 10:56:18 -0800

Andy Fraser <andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> Why is it so important that they work with a live CD anyway? I consider live
> CDs to be more for evaluation purposes or for system recovery (I use
> Knoppix as a spring board for installing Gentoo and system recovery). Once
> they're installed on a HDD (the ones that have that option anyway) you can
> add and configure software in the same way as their parent distro allows so
> your worries could be over.

Unfortunately, somebody else could add or configure software. I'd beg
to differ with Andy..Live CDs are the most promising
development I've seen in a long time. It might sound like heresy, but
I was never completely at ease with a 20 MB hard drive
that couldn't be hardware write protected- meaning flicking a switch
or removing a jumper- never mind 120GB. One malicious
trojan could potentially land me in prison. A clean machine, with
system and applications in ROM, and configurations and data
on a removable pen drive is my way to go.

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