Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2011 17:39 UTC (Wed) by mchazaux (guest, #64024)
In reply to: Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released

Cool to see the situation has evolved. A few monthes ago it was not true. I'll test some more distros then ;-)

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2011 17:55 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

FYI, it is not just a few months. Fedora 12 included this functionality when it was released in November 2009 and openSUSE probably in the same timeframe. I am pretty sure Mandriva had support for it slightly earlier and afaik is the first significant distribution release to do so. Something like dd is not useful for additional features like encryption or persistence and Fedora has a cross platform liveusb-creator for that purpose.

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2011 21:03 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

While it may not seem to you to be so, November 2009 wasn't that much more than a few months ago. Many of us do not keep constantly up to date on all things Linux.

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2011 22:56 UTC (Wed) by chithanh (guest, #52801) [Link]

The Gentoo LiveDVD allows persistence even if you dd the ISO image to your USB drive. Just press F9 at the boot screen.

Given that ISOLINUX supports hybrid booting only since version 3.72, I think it is unlikely that many of the 2009 distros shipped with the "bootable after dd to USB drive" feature.