Red Hat Magazine has a great book review of “Live Linux CDs: Building & Customizing Bootables”. As the article indicates “Live Linux CDs is organized into three sections: Beginning with Bootable Live Linuxes, Creating a Custom Bootable Linux, and Making a Specialized Bootable Linux. As the sections progress, so does the level of difficulty. A Linux newcomer should be able to get through Section 1, but may need the occasional life-line in the remaining chapters”.

Read the rest of the review here.

Via [livecdnews.com]
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As I have not posted a link to either of these two recently released distros I thought I would take the time and do so now.

From the Fedora Release Notes: “After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed "Zod") and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software.”

Fedora 6 Zod Live CD download here
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The FreeSBIE LiveCD was just released version 2.0 recently too. FreeSBIE is based on the FreeBSD OS and they are currently looking for beta testers for the FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC release if you are interested in participating.

FreeSBIE 2.0 download here
FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC.iso.torrent
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Ubuntu LiveCDCustomization/6.06
Here is Ubuntu’s LiveCDCustomization tutorial which has some additions to the original LiveCDCustomization tutorial that are specific to the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) distro.

Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data
HowtoForge’s Tutorial on modifying partitions using the GParted LiveCD.
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Beginner’s Guide: Run Linux like any other program in Windows:
Life Hack has a great tutorial on how you can use VMWare’s Player to run any linux live cd right from your windows desktop.

Screenshot Tour: How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD:
Life Hacker is a nice tutorial on how to use Ophcrack Live CD – which is a great tool for sysadmins to have.

Morphix - HowTo: Building a new LiveCD in two commands
A little tutorial on how to customize the Morphix LiveCD and make it your own.
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Mandriva has just released a live CD that features the Metisse 3D window manager. As noted on it website: “Metisse is a window manager developped by the In Situ project. Available under the GPL Licence and in exclusivity for Mandriva Linux, Metisse differs from a classic 3D desktop ("the cube") in the way that it offers innovative windows interactions, thus enforcing work efficiency. The copy-paste feature is the most easy and amazing example of Metisse full power.”

Some of its other features include GNOME desktop and runs on openGL so high end graphics cards are not required.

It is available for download here.

Via [distrowatch.com]
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Although not completed yet Moulin will prove to be a nice take on what Live CD technology can do. The projects goal is to create a Live CD that will contain the Wikipedia data base so all the content (minus pictures) is available off-line. The initial release is not actually a Live CD but an ISO containing Wikipedia in French with the English version soon to follow. After additional testing the application will be placed on a Live CD.

As noted on the website: “The moulin project was started by IESC Geekcorps Mali with funding provided by USAID.
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