It was a very pleasant experience to boot the Demo Linux that I downloaded 2 days ago.
It did not boot up with my Think Centre but did boot up with the NetVista without a problem an even detected the USB ports and the paraphernalia attached to the computer.
It had KDE, Gnome and surprisingly Star Office 2 (which I had never used before).
Most of the utilities were Debian based and it did not have office package not even Abiword but there were 10 or more text editors including LyX, Latex derivative and Quanta 2 the web editor, too.
There were hundred of utilities and games and demo did not need a password to boot.
It was very quick to boot and had all the text stating what was happenings behind the scene.
With tablets coming to scene, the humble beginning of Linux and now almost 95% of utilities including Androids using Linux is an amazing feat of the last 20 years.
But thank goes to Live CD List web site for keeping an archive CD there for downloading.
Now I am going to download version 2 too.
I used version 3 for testing.
Now that distromania is defunct I hope Live CD List keep some copies of old Linux for the future generation to see as a historical fact.
Without history mankind does not exist even in the digital age!
It reminded me of the Live Suse CD I used before I migrated from Redhat and Debian to Suse.
DemoLinux
Web site: www.demolinux.org
Origin: France
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Gnome, KDE
Architecture: x86
Based on: Debian
Wikipedia: DemoLinux
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 3.0.1 | January 20, 2002
DemoLinux – one of the first Live CD Linux distributions, and was created to make it possible to use Linux without having to install it on the hard disk.
It is the first Linux Live CD making possible to use the system in graphic mode and without any stage of configuration.
Version 1 was based on Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), versions 2 and 3 used a mechanism independent of the distribution and were distributed mainly on a Debian basis.
Version 3.0 now introduces the Xvesa X server, replacing the framebuffer used before, which depended on VESA 2.0 cards. We now handle PCI sound cards, Lucent winmodems, Reiserfs version 3.5.x, certain USB peripherals and several other 2.2.18 kernel devices. As for version 2.0, DemoLinux 3 heavily uses a transparent compression schema that allows to store (sotre) over a gigabyte of applications, including GNOME and KDE and the StarOffice office suite.
To try out DemoLinux, you need a PC equipped with a CD-ROM and at least 32 MB of RAM for simple graphics interfaces, 64 for advanced graphics interfaces, 128 to use StarOffice.
DemoLinux project was composed of 3 people, all based at the Paris VII University of Paris:
Vincent Balat,
Roberto Di Cosmo and
Jean-Vincent Loddo.
The project was under development between 2000 and 2002.
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