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Slax

Slax is my favorite Live CD running Linux because it is so easy to customize into your own Live CD Open Source PC tool kit.  I have created several of these over the years and continue to enjoy creating customized Live CDs.  I even have one, I call OS-PCTools, which I distribute to my students [...]

Knoppix

Knoppix is a Live CD with many compressed applications running Linux and based on Debian. There is now two versions of Knoppix.  One version that runs on a 700 megabyte CD and one that runs on a 4.7 gigabyte DVD.  Knoppix decompresses on the fly an estimated 1 plus gigabytes of data on the CD [...]

Insert

Insert is a bootable Linux operating system on a CD and is under 100 mega bytes.  Its small size allows it to boot quickly and perform very well.  Insert comes with many great tools, such as, GParted, Partimage, ntfs-3g, Nmap, TCPdump, F-Prot, chkrootkit, Dillo, gFTP, and WLAN support.  It is based on Knoppix 5.1.1 and [...]

Live CDs

A Live CD is a CD that has a bootable operating system, such as, Ubuntu that can run completely off a CD and independent of the hard drive.  A Live CD distribution could also be used to troubleshoot, fix, or maintain

a Windows or Linux computer.  Live CDs have become very important troubleshooting aids that can [...]