Slax -- a slackware based Live Linux cd

[crouse]

Slax -- a slackware based Live Linux cd
http://slax.linux-live.org/

This is one of the very best mini size live line cd's i've used. It fits on the small 8cm CDR .... it is based on slackware and the current version uses KDE 3.2 (very nice).

It's a very small download... only 185 mb... so it's an easy way to try Linux

Below is from their web page.

SLAX is a bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware GNU Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD.
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The main goal is to let it contain all software I think is useful, and to make it small so you can burn it to a 185 MB CD-R(W) (8 cm CD medium).

All your available partitions and data storage devices (CDroms, USB flash disks, etc.) should be recognized at the boot time and should be mounted to /mnt/xx. The "xx" could be for example "disc0part1" for your first partition on your primary master disk, "disc1part1" for your USB flashdisk datastorage, or "cdrom0" for your CDrom drive, etc. SLAX will never write anything to your mounted devices itself. Mounting is safe, it doesn't change your data.

After booting, you should be able to login as a "root". Password is "toor"; both without quotes, of course
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SLAX CD contains

* Linux Kernel 2.4.25
* Xfree86 4.3.0
* KDE 3.2 final
* KOffice 1.3 final
* KDE games
* mplayer 1.0pre3
* kopete ICQ/AIM/Y!/IRC
* midnight commander
* rdesktop (rscp in KDE)
* hotplug support
* cdrtools
* k3b burning GUI for KDE
* imagemagick
* mutt email client
* wget
* and much more...

[Dbest]

Nice find crouse, downloading right now .

[willy_ph]

I've downloaded the image but it doesn't like to extract vmlinuz. Oh well, guess I'll have to go back and check the md5. No biggie though, I only burned to to a rewritable disc.

[crouse]

Here is ANOTHER good <185mb Live Linux cd's

http://minicd.berlios.de/

MINI-CD

MiniCD was designed to be written to small the round 80mm CDR's. Usually these come in two flavours: a small 185MB disk or a 210MB disk. To cater for all flavours, MiniCD will strive to keep all iso images under the 185MB limit.


Mini-CDR's are different to the smaller 50MB square business-card CDRs. If you really want to run Linux on a business-card size CD, we recommend Linux BBC (Bootable Business Card). The decicion was made early one to go with the slightly bigger form factor - we just love running KDE from such a small disk!


You can, if you don't have mini-CDs available, write the iso image to a normal 650/700MD CDR/CDRW. Beware though that the distribution is faster on the smaller form-factor CDRs because of disk-spin startup times. However, using CDRWs are a great way to see if you should really write the iso to a mini.

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MiniCD requires at least a 586 processor (minimum Mandrake requirement, since it is optimised/compiled for an i586 processor) to run. Unfortionately it will not work on that old 386 or 486 that is lying around. In addition, at least 32MB of RAM is recommended - since MiniCD runs from CD, it uses the memory as a file storage area, hence this requirement.

Has

Mozilla
Ksirc
The Gimp
Xmms

And more...... not the newest KDE ..... but very nice anyway