ScentiLinux-Update

I thought i have made an entry for ScentLinux but I haven't.

I have been strict and you did not have a live CD (so you were not eligible) till lately.

May be you have seen my comments here and decided to make one before I pass the century.

It is a very good distribution coming from Switzerland with multi-language capability which is something I admire. Linux is an international phenomenon not an American Dream so language capability is a must.

It is known when one speaks one language (English) one does not use the important half of the brain necessary for creative activity and that is what Microsoft is about. When it introduced 42 languages with X.P it completely forgot about Sinhala (there are 2000 languages at present).

It took ages for them to rectify this.

High marks for language capability and also for blender included in 400 MiB distribution.

What I like most is the xfce with the mouse as a logo (not Mickey Mouse of Walter Disney) that brought me into live CD with PCLinix- SAM the man.

Booting, internet connection and the graphic appearance are great.

It comes from Paldo and I have an entry for Paldo too.

I have forgotten GoBo Linux and it is a big mistake.

GoBO Linux is the only except perhaps YOPER which is looking at Linux in a different point of view and perspective.

Breaking away from hierarchical architecture is difficult.

Now that Fedora is thinking of a change it is high time GoBo picks up the baton and run.

Wake up GoBo

it's new edition is long overdue.

That may be the reason I missed it.

Sorry Guys and Girls.

I am sorting out all the distributions and I will be writing on those missing entries.

I have multiple entries for Nimblex and R.I.P.

In fact you are within the hundred (100).

PureOS-Light-99

Very good light distribution of 366 MiB from Debian base.
Guest and root log in only when logged as root one can install the distribution.

Mouse based xfce x-windows and it is light on your RAM.

Has all the utilities.

I am currently downloading the standard 700 MiB distribution.

The standard one is Gnome and is even better than xfce with blue hue usually used by Debian.

PuppyBrowser-98

It is fitting to arrive at 100 with two Puppy editions.

One I am booted now is Puppy Browser. It is 5.1. and I started with 4.1 and I have a large collection of Puppies now.

The other that I downloaded few minutes ago was PupItUp, the music Puppy.
Both connects to the web instantaneously.
If not setup configures you in seconds.

I am afraid Microsoft pets cannot even bark.

Well done.

You cross the line at 100 with flying colours.

Don't worry Guys / Girls, I think I have made several entries for R.I.P and would add a few more than the 100 already in to remain not out till 2011.

I should now concentrate on Puppy to entertain me when big fat DVDs take a long time to download and test.

Guess, 4 more days of downloading for SuSe. then Mandriva before its metamorphosis.

I have got pass 3.3 yet.
That is artistX which has an erratic boot loader.

Trisquel-mini and Standard-97

Another Spanish Distribution based on Ubuntu with support for English language.

It seems that one my criteria for Live CD is language support and if English are not doing it others in the EU is doing it for us and US.

There are very good Linux distributions coming form Spain, Italy, France and most recently from Poland (Greene).

This is a very good one with all the utilities in 400 MiB.

If you boot in English it goes strait to web site in English.

If you boot in Spanish it goes to the the web in Spanish.

Well done Guys and Girls.
Your distribution is excellent,
Like PCLinux get some variety too.
I am impressed.

Standard edition has more options and Open Office.

Is my Selection of 100 Live CDs Scientific?

Before answering this questions I have to enumerate the limitations I had.

This was not a full time study and I had to to do this amidst lot of work and hardships.

To begin with I would not have done this if I had not gone abroad for a short but intensive stay abroad which included a Medical Examination Review.

When I started looking for Linux resources to take home there was nobody to guide me abroad.

I had to find my own way.

I thought people abroad are more clever and they really had a choice in their selections.

This was not true and that was my first scientific observation.

When I realize they are much stupider than me looking for an alternative operating system.

They thought I was stupid enough to ask such a question and me being not a local (foreign descent for them was a distinction of stupidity and not their own ignorance in scientific knowledge) they felt superior and comfortable selling a proprietary stuff.
The average Sri-Lankan feel very comfortable here but when abroad bend backwards including our M.P.s.

In fact I had to mount a fight to get what I wanted and there was only one Sri-Lankan guy standing beside me.

I had to say it is my money and I know how to spend that in my own way, not by market forces.

The difference was that I paid one third the price an average Guy / Girl pays for the stuff.

Vendors and O.E.M guys were worse off than the ordinary guys and girls.

Not knowing what to buy is a blessing for the vendors and the proprietary guys knows this very well well and brainwash the vendors first.

These guys in turn brainwash the average guy.

So what I state may look out of the blue and completely insane to the average but I believe there are lot of Guys / Girls who are more than average intelligence and their intelligence is always far superior to that of mine.

So I had to download the stuff myself and had few copies of Tiny Linux (including Puppy Linux) in my front shirt pocket to outsmart these gullible vendors.

When I displayed in few seconds what they take at least half an hour to display they had to stand back and watch (if not admiring) what I had in store.

Then I turned to the web browser and typed two words that included my Christian name and Linux what flowed out of the web page was a shock for them and my friend standing by,

My friend had been a computer guy and was building his own web page for publication but he had to have several key strokes to present and sell his name.

Finally we came to our room and I told him few Linux (he was not a Linux Guy anyway having been abroad very well brainwashed) tricks and started downloading distribution after distribution till it was three in the morning.

What it took six (6) months in Ceylon we did it in two days.

1. So my biggest handicap was the download speed and the throughput.

2. I had to shun DVDs to begin with due to this disability.

3. I had my own work to do and restrict my activity after midnight.

4. Testing could not be comprehensive due to time constraints.

5. Basically 386 testing but few of the 64 bits I tested in my laptop for fun.

6. My testing laptop only had a CD and no DVD and that also packed up (mounted a windows CD) not due to testing.

I managed to find a DVD (secondhand for a firsthand price) by that time I have passed 80.

7. Then last but not least I had to format and install new all the distribution s in my box four (4) times due to some of these said to nice and innocent LIVE CDs taking over my hard disk and erased (killer whales I call them and they think that there is only Microsoft there and not even DOS partition) everything (I only lost few Linux Images in the process).

This I took as and opportunity to test few of the distributions that had no Live CDs.

The list can go on.

Only silver lining in the sky was that we had two elections and I was bored to death and knew that this year nothing constructive would happen or emerge except me devoting full time to Linux and killing eavesdropping souls if there were any, especially election engineered.

Mind you I asked my former Dean to give me a desktop computer and leave it in a prominent place so that would be Linux guys can learn from me. He has gone now and a new one has come and because of my little pride left I decided not to offer or volunteer any teaching in Linux to the newcomer.

Instead I got permission to hold a mini workshop for my friends and students.

The theme of the workshop was Linux is not only Ubuntu.

But basically I displayed Ubuntu to the audience except for the last 15 minutes.

There are many more!

I believe some of my students will take the message across.

My other voluntary restrictions were

1. I downloaded only iso images.

2. Did not use torrent.

3. Did not use ZIP files.

4. Dis not use giz files.

5. I used only K3B for writing and only one Linux box (unlike old days windows and Nero) was used for downloading and it had only 76 GiB and only about 15 GiB for downloads. I had to save them in a U.S.B hard disk as well as on DVDs (USB DVD writer). So there were lot of little little inconveniences and I never lost an iso image except during the time the Killer Whaler Distributions went into panic mode (not me).

I do not recommend anybody to download them in Windows and Nero for writing.

High speed writing does cause damage to the isos.

Always should test the Media before booting if not done on Linux box.

Microsoft has found more than one way to kill these images when downloaded in a a Windows box. One lost file can be damaging and unlike Microsoft , the Images have to be 100%.

Nothing less nothing more.

To my surprise some of the commercial bent Linux distributions make sure that their images are slow to download and some with missing files.

This make the would be newbie to go to their site and buy from there ebay.

Unfortunately Mandriva (One of my favorites Mandake), Xandros and Linspire are culprits.

They have their hands tied down by Microsoft and they cannot do anything about these things happening.

They get caught pants down, though.

Mandravia is breaking up since insiders know very well these things are happening under their very nose and closed eyes.

It is a sad story for Mandrake and Mandriva fans.

Do not worry guys there are hundreds of alternatives distributions as I have listed.

Finally for those distros not included, my apologies,
I have used distros that updated from September 2009 to September 2010 but very few from Distromania archives for completeness sake and the variety, flavor and taste.

In future they should have iso in all formats.

Isos should be available in all formats.

Not only Torrent downloads but also HTTP.

ZIP for Linux guys.

Giz.biz for source and compiler guys.

Even Google Chrome has done this mistake.

So Guys and Girls enjoy the list in the Supper of Linux distributions in many flavors.

I have earned a welcome holiday and a vacation.

See you in 2011 with a Very Happy New year.

Please keep in touch if there are knew developments. in the meantime.

CIITIX-96

This is another very good derivative of Ubuntu providing Scientific utilities that can be used in the classroom.

I said that only ADIOSIDE has MySQL Adminn and MySQL Query but this is another distribution that provides graphic front for MySQL

The other that provides Scientific packages is Scientific Linux which is a Redhat derivative.

Overall very good distribution.

I hope it will have some more editions from Easy to Advanced (not light to heavy weight) packages for Middle School, O.L and A.D Level students.
Well done!

oZoS-95

This another lovely Ubuntu derivative that has taken Enlightenment x-Windows to its heart.
It is pleasing. sleek and attractive.
Like any other Ubuntu derivative it has all the basic needs for a newbie.

Crysalis-94

Chysalis a Debian based probably xfce windows distribution is fast to boot, sleek and attractive.
Ti has lot of Debian packages.
I have listed few of the Debian (Mind you, Ubunbtu and Kboppix are Debian derivatives) in my nineties to illustrate how deep and dedicated the Debian community and developers and how deep they have gone in.

To know Linux one must master Gnome and Debian.

If you an average user go for other Live CDs but Core and Heart of Linux lie in Debian and Gnome.

Do not forget the Origin even though I had lot of difficulties learning it, when it could not support proprietary drivers for Graphic cards.

It has enormous repository, even the popular Linux Mint has produced a Debian base distribution. This is because the way Linux is moving each distribution cannot keep it own repository and update them regularly.
This is why we must have a convergence strategy for Live CDs. Desktop and Server.
Togetherness is strength and solidarity come with it.

Even though I have not elaborated filly with Debian but this is the way to pay back my dues.

SAMLinux-93

My live CD craze started with SAM 2007 and it went up to SAM 2009.
It is a derivative of PCLinuxOS and is based on xFce.

My attempt at testing 100 live CDs wouldn't have taken place if I did not come across SAM-2007 almost by accident.

All the credit goes to SAM and the xFce. This is long before the my discovery of PCLinux.

It's last edition based on PCLinux was on August, 2009.

I waited long to I see the new edition in 2010 that is not to be yet and that will be a brand new edition and not based on PCLinux.

Unfortunately it is not going to be before I finish the 100.

SAM 2007 was the best live CD for me for quite a long time with games and lot of web utilities and that was the CD I used to demonstrate Linux (how easy to mount a live CD and configure internet cards).

I will edit this page when a new edition is on the horizon.

5 "S" Strategy for Linux and a Businss Model

For the future of Linux Community of Developers we should have a strategy in ISO style.

1. Sort.

2. Set

3, Shine or Refine

4. Standardize.5. Sustain

I looked at the the successful companies and found no Linux derivative there.

This is the failure of Linux. We do not have a Business Model to boast about.

We have a Logo and a Mascot where are they standing at present?

If you look at the list in the first 20 we have IBM, Google, Microsoft and Intel and Yahoo at 66 but no Linux.

Like Coca Cola we should be in the Number One.

The simple reason is we do not know to market our products.

Do not merge with the big companies.

Look at Yahoo having merged it is in the 66th place whereas Microsoft is in the top 5.

Why?

1. Embrace

2. Expand

3. Extinguish or Explode

We call EXPLODE it in this country since we a firecracker happy nation (to show politicians are in the vicinity) to Explode at any moment.

We knew for over 30 years how to avoid and escape from bombs now we have to escape from (all powerful but impotent in deeds) politicians.

Unfortunately we do not know how to escape from the stranglehold they are imposing on us.

So merging with big companies or the politicians (Obama and his expensive social program) is not the way forward.

The way forward is to scrutinize the activities and put them the Acid Test of "5S".

First of all we have to SORT all the Models.

I will do it in my way but my analysis also a Primitive Model to work with.

1. SORT

Sort all the essentials (LIVE CDs, Servers, Desktops, Netbooks most importantly O.E.M.s).
Sort the Origin-Debian series, Knoppix and Live CDs series , Puppy series. Ubuntu series, Redhat. Centos Series... Mandriva series, Slackware series, Gentoo series etc.

I am almost finishing with the Live CDs with subcategories named after our ancestral mammals the Apes (Light Weight, Middle Weight, Heavy Weight type of apes and monkeys) with x-Windows to go with it.

2. SET

Set a business Model with a strong Logo for Live CDs, Desktops and Server and O.E.M.s (that will be the future netbooks).

Target is to get within the first 10 if not it is not marketable.

3. SHINE rather REFINE the most essential basics for each category worth marketing.

4. Standardize

(Linux is standard based operating system and this should not be a problem).

5. Sustainability

This is the difficult part without a strong Business Model.

This is only possible if all the Linux derivatives in each category pass a gold mark or the gold standard (for Live CD I have chosen PCLinux as the Gold Standard of usability) and move up the ladder in the 100 in each category.

That is my wishful thinking.

When I did my survey (now the time for a research) I found lot of good stuff has gone into dormancy because of lack of support like a business model would have.

To name a few are MYAH, Linux Console. ADIOS. O.L.P.S and many more.

It is a shame that the good work of dedicated developers are now in the attic instead of in the classroom or in the living room.

I have shown the way.

We must revive and take Linux out of the doldrums and develop some marketable products.

I will be willing to work with even the devil if my suggestions are taken to heart by Developers but not business crooks.

Please make some critical comments.

gNewSense-92

Another distribution with almost pure Gnome and free software.
Ubuntu based and relatively fast to boot and install.

Ephiphany as a web browser and Brasero as CD burner.

Neat , sleek and effective distribution preserving its Debian and Gnome origin,

Good one if you are a purist of Free Software Foundation.

SalixLXDE--91

Salix is another Slackware based distribution that has taken to heart of introducing a Live CD I am currently downloading.
It may be a little while that newbies will take this into their fold and give feed backs.

it will be matter of minutes before I run it in my box.

Bit slow to boot up but sleek and attractive Live CD.

Gets to internet fast but yahoo.is the default not Google.

Yahoo did not fish aroung bmy blogspot but I had to go back to Google.

Now I have booted the Live LXDE.

Intert browser is Midori and Abiword and Gpart is there,

Unlike Absolute Linux no hesitation with x-windows and it is installable.

Thanks Guys and Girls I have to wait long for your live CD.

The bigger version must be having more options.

T will be soon downloading it.

Absolute Linux--90

This is on of those installable CDs that takes over your hard disk in toto.

so look at the label is it Live or Install.
I almost erased my hard disk it with it .
Even then I have several editions of it but never install it to see its worth.

I fetched and got live Cd in a zip file from Softpedia and ultimately made a image and booted little while ago for testing.

It looks xfce but there is no record that it was from xfce was visible in the booted front.

It is very shaky with it configuration of x-Windows and warn and ask you some worrying questions (for a newbie) before the last stage of mounting.

It puts anybody off including me.
It readily displays the user and root and their passwords and violates the principle of password by using only 55 and 77,
that is not the lesson a newbie should learn.
Thanks it is in zip file only a Linux fan can unravel its secrets.

This is not for newbie as yet and it cannot be installed!

It is a good try and it has a long way to go like Centos (Salix has joined the fold recently) and the like who took up Live CDs seriously only lately.
I will be with you with Salix moment I download and test it for you.

GNUSTEP--89

This is the purest of the pure of Gnome and free software foundation (F.O.S.S) distribution. It follows the rules of the foundation and include utilities without compromising foundations goals.

In fact only a handful of them follow the rules to the letter.

It is a very good distribution with lot of utilities and I could not find gParted in the lot.

This distribution follows the principles and it should be a benchmark of Linux and Gnome.

Note my words. there is a difference of Gold Standard and the Benchmark.

Benchmark is the Guiding Principle but Gold standard is the utility Status whether you are a Gnome fan or an average consumer fed up with Microsoft and its franchises.

Interestingly it has Blender in its fold so it gets very good average score from me.

Linux is it Convergence or Divegence?

While Linux had been going on diverse and diverging pathways over the last decade there are significant converging strategies developing in the World Wide Web.

More and more people are using it everyday it has come to stay with the trends of the time.

Telecom's innovations are coming to its peak that less and less people (except the young) are willing to invest and pay for everything they use or partake.

Ordinary people are more conscious of the price since everything else is going up in prices.

This is where V.O.I.P will take a center stage in couple of years since it is cost effective and one does not have to pay twice for the same article or service.

Similarly Television channels are offered through the pulse line of telephone and slowly but surely everything is becoming digitalized.

Analog years are numbered just as the music turntables of the past.

Similarly Video formats would change.

This is where Linux will and can steam role and go forward faster than our imagination can take us.

In the third world we are not yet ready for this scenario changing but billions of consumers are there in the East in Asia and China.

That is where the profits are going to be.

In time come everything is going to be computer generated and only Linux can penetrate all these markets.

Linux have to move in different directions while converging on the desktop market. Server market and netbooks (rather O.E.Ms).

Live CDs showed the convergence pathway but what about the divergent pathway.

1. V.O.I.P is one pathway.

2. Video Generation (New Fast and reliable web format) and its different formats.

3. TV and Web TV is another pathway.

4. Education and Multimedia is another pathway.

5. Cloud Computing is yet another.

6. Business packages and MySQL is another pathway.

7. Science. Technology and Mathematics is another.

8. Web Utilities (like Google's Chrome)is another and sports is another.

9. Venture into Government and Universities is another.

10. Sports and Entertainment (Music and Films) is another

11. Web Storage is another since Linux will work tirelessly without breaking the system or the hardware.

There are many more avenues for Linux enthusiasts.

Linux also should have a market philosophy.

Merging with big companies and committing harakiri is not the way forward.

Linux should generate reasonable income to its developers and community.

Just like medical service operates the vaccination and community health should be free but people who get sick with indulgence (alcohol and cigarettes and unconventional life style should pay or should have a reasonable health insurance).

In other words people who can afford it should pay reasonable price for the service.

If one gives something free its market value will go down. This is seen in our country very well. We give free education and after 11 years of teaching English they cannot utter a sentence with 10 words clearly. This is true for Mathematics and Science and there is no training in IT.

Do not follow this stupid idea in the name cheap socialism.

For Linux workers (like labour laws) there should be some sort of compensation for the time and effort of the community and the developers. This can take the form of cooperative movement at internet level.

If one's idea is quoted and referred there should be a way of paying some royalty value through a cooperative fund. The fund should be developed from donations and charities. This has to be formulated with some strong checks and balances otherwise one rogue (we have our Sakwithies, here) will drain it overnight.

Then only it will go from strength to strength.

If we have repeated episodes of economic crisis one after another crisis the community will strangle itself and quietly dwindle it's human resources (which is natural with the present day youth) and the big companies will jump in for the kill.

We should not let this happen. We should be mindful.

WebConverger-88

This is a very nice Live CD for web browsing.

Coming from UK it has BBC on line too which is a good thing.

It has taken KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) very seriously and I cannot shutdown the console once it is booted and rooted which is a big handicap at my prostratic age!

If they want to be serious about light weight must shed 27 out of 227 MiB, like the old Nimble X so that it will fit in a mini CD and I can wear it in my front shirt pocket.

Make it pocket size please so lest I cannot carry it in my front shirt pocket on holidays.

Take some cues from Good OS (gOS) and make it eye candy.

Good Luck.
I am downloading ADIOS web edition and will be back with you soon.

NiMbleX--87

This is a distribution I wanted to put with the teeny weenies but any longer.

It's 200 MIB was nimble to begin with but now it has gone to KDE 4 with little fat, an ailment of atherosclerosis.

When one is on a diet of KDE it is no wonder one gets atherosclerosis that is why I call the the KDE 4 fondly as the Gorilla in the wing (I love Gorillas any way) if not at the dinner party.

Unfortunately we simple Sri-Lankans are on a not so balance diet but on a lean diet due to food prices going up by the day and we cannot invite Gorilla for a dinner let alone a party. But we have two legged variety with both hands up for innocent voters charm.

We even cannot feed our four legged elephants except during perahara time. These majestic animals are killed one a day almost everyday (in the pretext of development) that we will not have any left in the jungle.

But the fat politicians are eating up everything including the limited resources.

Problem with fat distributions (like politicians) they waste time and energy doing nothing at all for me to talk about.
It takes lot of time downloading them and feeding them with RAM and memory.

I am downloading the 400 odd MiB not so Nimblex.
I will be with you soon with some comments.

It is sleek as always the KDE is.

Slow to boot but surprisingly once booted up moves fast/
it has everything a newbie needs including open office in 400 MiB which is an achievement.
They should take a cue or two from PCLinux and add some light weight X-windows to it's repertoires.
It has a long way to go to satisfy every type of customers . especially somebody like me in its fold to give a pet tap or a kick in the back and should not drop its light weight 200MiB descendent in its repertoire.

Good Luck with future endeavours.

Adioside-8.0q-86

This live Cd is the only one where I found MySQL Admin and MySQL query in its utilities and many web applications one which looked like (I did not go deep) a visual basic variant (not Gambase).

These three additions make me to recommend it for a newbies to download and use it live.
Unfortunately one cannot install it to hard disk. Had it being I would have done more deeper digging to it's heart.

When the next version comes I hope they read my comments and use it for special application for using MySQL with graphic applications.

I am nearing nervous nineties and I have to download few more and test them to finish my target.

LessLinux-85

A new breed of new but tiny distribution that come Germany is a good one for the newbies.
It took little time for me to get round it but it is a good rescue CD with many utilities.

TeenPupMini-84

This is one of the best among variety of Puppy pedigree.

It has eye candy graphic features which is excellent for oldie like me with poor night vision.
May not work with very old computers but who keeps old computers now that the second hand value of the P IV is very cheap.

In fact I bought a second hand one for testing Linux with Sata and IDE hard drives and 512 RAM (minimum for D.D.R II )for Rs. 15,000 and when my old computers are not working or IDE hard disks are not available (soon inevitable) I can use it as my back up machine.

I may have to spent a dew bucks for the DDR2 RAM and the Express Graphic Cards.
One of the web Linux friend tells me that the 64 bit machine gives only 4% acceleration and the most up time through put one gets is only 6% (I stand to correction on these figures but I believe him).

Who needs a dual core?
They are really not fast but they consume lot of electricity (electricity bill will be up) and lot of fans to cool them unless they have a way of tropicalizing them to suit warm countries like ours.

Sorry for diversions but Puppy Linux of any variety will stand tall among tiny Linux distributions.

grmi-83

This live distribution packed with all the pure Linux Utilities is only in test mode and is the handy work for Linux administers when troubled with administrative tasks.

One can log into a distant server and start doing the repair work.

Even a newbie cab use it to learn learn command line activities.

All the help is there with and everything one need to go is explained.
If one is graphic cravy this is not for you.

Linux Tit Bits

Now that I am in the penultimate stage of my analysis it is pertinent I should talk about the little distributions that did the work with only 4MiB Graphics on board. I still have my third computer with 4MiB on board graphics and 64 MiB RAM running old Linux distributions which is still working.

I use it for occasional demonstrations.

Who needs any demonstration with so many live CDs?

Even Windows 95 and 98 could land on this graphic card before the Graphic explosion!

I could never find a adapter to increase its Graphic potential to 8, the maximum.

Those were the days when we used Floppy disks to boot up and I still have few 5.5 inch Floppies.

The distributions that come to my mind are INSERT, Feather Linux, Tiny me and DSL.

I must confess except DSL I rarely needed to use the other distributions.

These became obsolete when Puppy Linux with 96 MiB came into the scene.

It is true that Puppy Linux stands tall among all the other distributions when one is using an old computer.

In historical perspective I must write few lines on each of these teeny weeny units.

The teeny weeny bikinis of the time.

In Linux terminology bare bones of Linux.

SqueezeBox-82

This is a Debian based distribution using Enlightenment Environment,

It has lot of other utilities including boot manager which a newbie should not fiddle with lest you destroy the booting sequence.

It looks like Debian based distributions are asserting themselves when commercial interests intervene their development.

Sidux has changed to Aptosid and Mandriva is going through its own destruction.
There is only a thin line between free software and commercial ventures.

Google and Oracle are also causing some concern.

D.S.L-81

This is the best I have ever used out of the less than hundred MiBs.
When I am busy and could not attend to my wife's computer this the one I give her so that she can get her email read.
She does not know how to save any documents with it.
Who the hell who worry about saving your files at home for use.
Google is now providing mobile space for saving and cloud computing is on the horizon for everybody and USB sticks to go around.

In any case netbooting hardware is the need of the hour.

Linux is there to take the challenge.

R.I.P. Linux--83 (Rest In Peace for Windows)-Update

This is the CD I use when I have accidentally erased everything in my hard disk which I did recently to partition my hard disk.
I really love this because it reminds me of letting windows Rest In Peace a long time ago.

But it is for recovery of your files and photos.

It says Recovery Is Possible and recently, when I visited a computer hacker (he rips off old laptops and sells the usable remnants for the price of a new one (good money if I stated doing that) to get a CD/DVD for my son's old Hitachi Laptop.

Unfortunately my son as well as I forgot all the passwords and could not boot it.

Not rooted or booted for one year.

I found a Combo that juts out of the front panel but I got the old Hitachi working again and I am going to use it for testing Linux distributions until the Combo packs up or I pull it out and use netbooting utility to rip the BIOS and booting sequence.

CDLinux-80

This is good for Windows guys and girls.
They can mount this on a windows partition not on a DOS partition.
I was annoyed that they did not let me install it on a Linux partition.
Fast, cute and good.

Trinity Rescue Kit-79

This is a utility Windows guys can use to clean up their box / boxes (if they are stupid enough to have more than one).
What I used to do manually this Linux utility does in series of scripts booted onto the RAM. No knowledge of Linux is required only trigger happy (for Sri-Lankans) or mouse click happy (outside of Sri-Lanka) window's stupid guys and girls.

Debris-78

Is another little utility with many applications.

Deft--77

I have been very busy, if not I may have finished the last phase (last 25 of the 100) my entries by now. I have already downloaded over 200 CD and DVDs in spite of the very slow throughput of our Telecom.
Guys / Girls of the Sri-Lankan doing a very good job with very limited resources they have.
Hats off for them for they are heading and giving a welcome hearing to my constructive comments.
Peo TV is very good venture and giving out a router which is above the Operating System in I.P. / T.P. protocol (Year ago the Modem did not support Linux) so that user can decide which operating system to use.

However, they are far behind in Telecom's innovations such as AsteristNow and the PABX. As far as Linux they are nowhere near international standards.

Coming back to Deft. it is a forensic distribution I fished out of Distromania archives. Apart form general utilities it has number of forensic utlitlis.

Debian-Update

The new releases of Debian 5.0.6 has forced me to write this.
Everybody is changing perhaps taking a cue or two from me and introducing a variety of Live CDs with different X-Windows front.

Linux is / was neither resource crave nor crazy to begin with.

Why it has taken this much time to change its course towards its humble beginning to rediscover its true nature of sparing its graphic resources and making it not hard on hardware and at the same time sharing and utilizing processor efficiently is a pertinent question to me.

It nice to see Debiain is again leading the race unlike the commercial distribution open source or otherwise.
It has produced a series of Live CDs for us.

I am currently downloading the first of the series and it might take time for me to write some comments.
So this post is to alert the newbies and savvy and make others interested in Linux.

It is a good ploy Debian should invest time and resources.

Thank again for broad basing Debian so that many newbies will be following Debian.

After all Debian is the Godfather of Linux.