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What is a good and localized live Linux CD? [closed]

What is a good and localized live Linux CD? [closed]

I'm tired of fixing friends' and relatives' Windows PC's :-/

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Guest [Entry]

"The Ubuntu installation can be made quite small and gives a very comfortable environment.
Look at KUbuntu (article ref).
Your requirements sound like a NetBook application.

PuppyLinux installs on a ramdisk and is quite fast.
But, it has its own interface feel and does not work with debian packages.

DamnSmallLinux is a good (while not exactly debian based).

In general you could lookup the distribution features at the DistroWatch site.

Critical things to note while selecting a small distribution are.

Quick to boot and update (besides being small)

Comfortable user interface (Gnome is heavy, usually bloats the installation)
Widely supported package management (when you want something small to be installed quickly)"
Guest [Entry]

"For a small bootable Linux distro I prefer Puppy Linux or the aforementioned Damn Small Linux.

You may be interested in this page which lists most of the smaller Linux and BSD derived distributions."
Guest [Entry]

"For fixings PCs I use Ultimate Boot CD : http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It has memtest86, 20 different hard disk diagnostics, disc wiping tools, cloning tools (except CloneZilla), partition tools (except GPartD), DOS tools, boot disk makers, CPU testers, and more...

But nothing replaces having a good Live CD around. Knoppix was the first good one but lately there are lots of others, my favorite is the Ubuntu live CD."
Guest [Entry]

Take a look at http://susestudio.com/ and build your own distro with the tools you need. I built one for a task at work and it came in at 60MB and boots just fine.
Guest [Entry]

If you like real use free software (http://www.gnudotorg/distros/free-distros.html), you can easily download 4.0.1 taranis Trisquel 100% free distribution of the following URL: http://trisquel.info / en / download. When using this will be the most advanced free software distribution (much like ubuntu and debian but in this case Trisquel 4.0.1 and you may very well play all YouTube videos without any problems using the native program (which is in its repositories) gnash 0.8.8. also plays very well java (sun) but the free version. You can perform all the tasks you did in windows but in this case will exalt you really saying that you use the best version of the free software GNU with linux-free: http : / / en.wikipediadotorg / wiki / Linux-libre