Re: Linux distro opinions

Michal Seta <mis-Xd8Q8LSD3JyZDGw7DTu1/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.csound.tekno
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:21, [email protected] wrote:
> Thanks Josh, that's very useful advice. Is Gentoo something that could be made 
> to fit on one CD? I'm hoping to make it possible not to even depend on a hard 
> drive for gigs.

Check out Knoppix live CD.  It uses Debian as its base.  You can install
the contents of the CD onto a HD and then use the debian apt to
install/remove packages.  There are some instructions on the knoppix
website about customizing the CD so you can make your own and put on it
what you need and configure the boot the way you need.  There are other
live-cd distros that you can look into as well.

I tried knoppix only and it's pretty impressive in terms of
autodetection and autoconfiguration of the hardware it runs on.

The drawback of running a show off a CD is that it risks to be less
efficient than off HD.  But I haven't tried knoppix on a really fast
machine (best was a celeron 800Mhz or somesuch with CD-ROM reader at 48x
I think) and it was considerably slower off a CD than off HD after
installation.  Test a lot.

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