http://lwn.net/Articles/46668/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Red Hat Based Live CDs". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/47155/rss 2003-08-29T21:35:46+00:00 brugolsky If my code contained as many typos and bits of line noise as my prose, I'd be out of a job in a week. Perhaps I should enroll in an ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) course. ;-p http://lwn.net/Articles/47061/rss 2003-08-29T14:05:21+00:00 holstein <p>Just to be a bit nit-picky...</p> <p> I suppose we really are talking about <i>1993</i>, right?</p> <p>Because the historian-turned-coder that I am, if it is not the case, have a few historical notion to review... ;)</p> http://lwn.net/Articles/46954/rss 2003-08-28T23:47:48+00:00 ranger Although it hasn't been updated in the past 6 months, a more up-to-date LiveCD project based on Mandrake Linux is the minicd, at http://minicd.berlios.de ... but more might be coming from this project.<p>An interesting thing to note is that there is not that much code in the project, as it uses Mandrake's native hardware detection routines. http://lwn.net/Articles/46828/rss 2003-08-28T15:03:41+00:00 brugolsky Any discussion of LiveCDs should pay homage to Adam Richter's 1983 Yggdrasil L/G/X, the granddaddy of LiveCDs. IIRC, it did transparent decompression by using a special libc in /lib/compressed/. It booted into X, and had both &quot;install&quot; and a &quot;demo&quot; accounts, with an MPEG-1 player demo and the Andrew System. The name was even politically correct: Linux/GNU/X. ;-p