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February 03, 2005
~OSNews: Linux Live CD Roundup
Linux LiveCD Roundup - OSNews.com
Spotted this OS News article on slashdot. Doesn't get into system benchmarks, but more ethereal analysis, offered by a user, a library admin, of LiveCD performance of sub 1GHz processor pcs with 128/256MB of memory. Worth looking at if you have an old pc you want to hang on to, curious about Linux, but have never used it, like the portability and no fuss-no muss of a LiveCD, and want some names to start googling. I'll stick with Knoppix. The article does mention a problem I had with SUSE's LiveCD. I had it hang looking for a printer as well. The biggest headache I found with nearly all LiveCD distros is the lack of drivers for older and/or cheaper hardware. I've also found that they don't support newer wifi cards using the Broadcom chipset (Linksys WMP11), even with linux-wlan-ng. It's been about 7 mo. since I fiddled with finding a driver, perhaps someone has written one by now.
Posted by cystdog at February 3, 2005 06:06 AM
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