LiveDistro

"While I was fast to mention and provide the LiveCD for Ubuntu Linux, I was asked if there are other versions of Linux or Linux based applications that offer down loadable LiveCD's and what the primary function (of the CD) focused upon. Well, I'm by no means the know-all expert of Linux and its LiveCD distributions, I was however, able to find almost 300 and have done my best to put them in alphabetical order with a brief blurb.

Hopefully this will provide an initial list from which to jump off and explore different versions."

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/130-useful-linu...

"Toorox is a Linux Live-DVD based on Gentoo booting up with KNOPPIX technology. Designed for easy using, multi-lingual(de,en), simple control center, hard disk installer."

Content:

- Kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r2
- KDE 4.2.1
- Xorg-Server 1.5.3
- OpenOffice 3.0.1
- Iceweasel 3.0.7
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
- K3b 1.0.5
- Gimp 2.6.6
- Wine 1.1.17
- Amarok 2.0.2
- Audacious 1.5.1
- Ardour 2.7.1
- Kino 1.3.1
- Cinelerra 20090210
- ...

From the Changelog:
-Kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r2
-KDE 4.2.1
-Added ClamAV(KlamAV) Anti-Virus
-Added Amarok 2
-Added Code::Blocks
-Removed Kdevelop
-Moved Minefield into Iceweasel
-Fixed mouse-pointer issue after installation
-Fixed installation issue on a new created partition
-Fixed .ICEauthority permission trouble
-Installation on USB hard disk now possible
-Moved Minefield into Iceweasel

Home - http://toorox.de/index.php?lang=en
Forum - http://toorox.de/index.php?option=com_fire...
Download - http://toorox.de/toorox_downloads/Toorox_0...
MD5:714eca115cc526cfe77019aed2a7a107

"Project Live* [live-star] introduces a new approach to software distribution and configuration in a data center. Major software components (e.g. an operating system or an application server) are distributed as immutable disk images that contain pre-installed and ready-to-run software. Users can, within the limits of compatibility, use these Lego-like building blocks to construct more complex systems.

Source License: GPL-2.0"

http://kenai.com/projects/livestar

Easy Peasy is an Ubuntu based operating system for netbooks. It's optimized for netbooks and favors the best software available by delivering Firefox with Flash and Java, Skype, Google Picasa, Songbird etc. out of the box. Easy Peasy 1.0 is our latest stable release and was released January 5th"

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/wiki/

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading...

http://www.mininova.org/get/2153373 (torrent download)

"Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux Desktop. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Jwm. The core runs entirely in ram and boots very quickly.

It is not a complete desktop nor is all hardware completely supported. It represents only the core needed to boot into a very minimal X desktop typically with wired internet access.

The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a netbook, an appliance, or server, selectable by the user."

http://www.tinycorelinux.com/

http://tinycorelinux.com/forum/

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...

TurnKey Linux Software Appliances announced its most exciting and ambitious batch of releases yet. The 2009.02 release, based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS,
includes 12 new software appliance images (packaged as an installable live CD) and features extensive improvements to usability, security and stability. "We've done a terrific amount of quality assurance on our end and blocked the release until we had resolved every single bug and issue we found."

Highlights:

• New software appliances since last announcement: Ruby on Rails, Mediawiki,
  Drupal6, LAPP stack, Django stack, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TurnKey Core
  (102MB) and Bootstrap (67MB)
• Rebuilt all appliances on top of TurnKey Core, the new common base for all software appliances, which is assembled from Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
  packages.
• Security enhancements: SSL support out of the box, regenerating
  crypographic keys at installation time, database password setting
  during installation.
• Usability improvements: phpMyAdmin included in all LAMP based
  appliances, also included many generically useful webmin modules and
  improved embedded documentation, configuration console support for
  systems with multiple NICs, and password-free login in live CD/demo
  mode.
• Many bugfixes including one that fixes a potential breakage to the
  daily auto-updates mechanism.

See full release announcement for further details.

We got this far thanks to everyone in the Ubuntu community who tried out
the previous crop of beta appliances, especially those who gave us
feedback and encouragement on the forums. Part of the
what's great about starting out small is that we've been able to keep up
with all comments and questions and personally respond to every single
one of them, even in the middle of a development cycle.

What is a software appliance?

A software appliance is a self contained system combining an application
with just enough operating system to run on real hardware or a virtual
machine (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen HVM, KVM)..

Manual installation and configuration of a server solution can be
painful and time consuming, especially for users lacking technical
proficiency.

Some users find that using a pre-integrated software appliance is an
easier way to get up and running quickly, especially in combination with
virtual machine software.

A software appliance allows users to altogether skip manual installation
of the desired application components and required dependencies, and
instead deploy a self-contained, ready-to-use system that requires
little to no setup.

For further details see "What is a software appliance"

"debirf is a system that will create diskless, all-in-ram images (kernel and initramfs) that boot entirely into ram and leave the user in a fully functional Debian system.

debirf has a module architecture that allows users to easily customize the images that they build, using simple shell scripts, to do basically anything the Debian can do. Some included examples "profiles" are:

* minimal: very minimal system with no extras
* rescue: includes a full complement of system repair utilities, including mdadm, lvm2, testdisk, foremost, etc
* xkiosk: run a simple clean GUI web browser for public-access web browsing

Debirf is made publicly available under the GNU General Public License."

http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/debirf

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf

"A Debian Live system is a Debian operating system that does not require a classical installer to use it. It comes on various media, including CD-ROM, USB sticks, or via netboot. Why Debian Live?

Although the Debian Live project is about the framework to create your own customized Live system, we offer some prebuilt images. Currently, builds for three desktop environments (GNOME, KDE and Xfce) as well as the standard system are available."

http://debian.org/

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i...

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i...

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i...

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i...

9966e40f3183198d4ac4a4521a9f3211 debian-live-500-i386-gnome-desktop.iso

"The GNUmed project builds an open source Electronic Medical Record. It is developed by a handful of medical doctors and programmers from all over the world. It can be useful to anyone documenting the health of patients, including but not limited to doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, [...]

A new GNUmed live CD is out. With the help of this CD one can testdrive GNUmed without altering the currently running environment. No installation neccessary. Just download the CD image and either burn it to a CD or set up the CD image as a virtual CD drive. GNUmed client 0.3.10 is included and configured. No setup needed !"

http://www.gnumed.de/

http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/bin...

"Toorox is a Linux Live-DVD based on Gentoo booting up with KNOPPIX technology. Designed for easy using, multi-lingual(de,en), simple control center, hard disk installer."

Content:

- Kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r1
- KDE 4.2.0
- Xorg-Server 1.5.3
- OpenOffice 3.0.1
- Minefield 3.0.6
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- K3b 1.0.5
- Gimp 2.6.4
- Wine 1.1.14
- Audacious 1.5.1
- Ardour 2.7.1
- Kino 1.3.1
- Cinelerra 20090210
- ...

From the Changelog:

-Kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r1
-KDE 4.2.0
-Xorg-Server 1.5.3
-Update of nearly all packages
-Added /usr/sbin/net-config to configure LAN,WLAN devices
-Added NTFS write support via ntfs-3g driver
-Added "xmodule=" cheatcode
-Added icedtea6 Java JDK
-Removed compiz
-Removed kwlan
-Removed desktop-effects overlay
-Moved Firefox into Minefield
-Recent portage snapshot
-Boot from USB optical drive
-Fixed ext2/3 inode size to interact with existing bootloaders
-Fixed using correct VGA card driver
-Fixed set correct modes in xorg.conf (1680x1050, 1920x1200)
-Toorox Installer extensions

MD5 Toorox 02.2009:b799e3f839851be31f43b06f9f7019d0

http://toorox.de/index.php?lang=en