[RndTbl] Bootable CD distros

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Thu May 16 16:25:12 CDT 2002


According to Mike Pfaiffer:
> 	I asked this question at the meeting but kind of got sidetracked. Does 
> anybody have a favourite bootable CD distro they would recommend as a 
> "will work on any machine immediately" demo? I tried Vietual Linux 1.1 
> from http://virtual-linux.org and it couldn't get past five or six 
> processes respawning too fast.

I haven't worked with any of these, so I can't offer any recommendations.
However, a friend of mine told me about a distribution from France called
DemoLinux...

http://www.demolinux.org/

Since it was small, I mirrored it on the MUUG server quite some time ago...

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/demolinux/demolinux/

... however, they discontinued their FTP service, so the mirror stopped
working.  You can still download from their web site (or get the older
versions from our mirror).

I have no idea how this one might compare to other bootable CD distros.

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