News from the front
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Mar 30 02:44:09 CST 2004
On Thursday, March 25, 2004 05:03 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Novell really need to give credit to the Knoppix guy for
> coming up with the LiveCD idea.
Hardly.
RedHat's original distribution CD was bootable and would run "live". They
later split "Live Linux" off to a separate CD around 5.2. I think the
earliest RH CD I have is the first one that wouldn't run "Live".
Recently (within the last 12 months) most of the major distros, starting I
think with Mandrake, started doing Live CD's as demos. Whether this was
inspired by Knoppix and it's clones, or whether they are just a more
weed-like offshoot of the commercial demos I don't know, but they certainly
didn't invent it.
Mind you, they have gone a long way toward showing us what a "Live CD" can be
and do.
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