<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@vonahsen.com">barry@vonahsen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
sorry, I don't want to halt your line of inquiry<br>
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I think knoppix played a very important role 3-4 years ago, and I still keep a copy in my kit as a fallback. since then, however, I think that when ubuntu started going to a live cd/installer combo cd, a lot of live cd maintainers jumped on. there are a lot of specialized live cds around (backtrack for security testing, samurai for web security testing, I'm sure many others[1]). many are ubuntu based, but if none fit your need, the general ubuntu live cd should work pretty well.<br>
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or, I thought you spoke french, that shouldn't slow you down :)<br>
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[1] many others: <a href="http://www.livecdlist.com/" target="_blank">http://www.livecdlist.com/</a><br><font color="#888888">
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</font></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Live CDs are so 2009. Now it's a live thumb drive (it even rhymes!).</div><div><br></div><div>Boot speed is so incredibly fast, and you can configure it to have persistent storage. A 1GB drive works great (gives about 200MB for persistence. That's nice if you want to have proprietary drivers that need to be downloaded.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(update: docs[1] say that 2GB is a better size)</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick</a></div>
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