VUNet review

http://www.vnunet.com/features/1155698
> LNX-BBC is a svelte distribution, at 50MB for the ISO image. The
> idea is that it will fit on a business-card sized CD-R so it can be
> conveniently carried around in a wallet. It's a similar idea to the
> Sysadmin Survival CD that Red Hat used to provide as part of its
> boxed Linux product. And, in a novel twist, if you join the Free
> Software Foundation your membership card will be a bootable CD
> containing LNX-BBC.
> 
> The space constraint of a 50MB image means that LNX-BBC has fewer
> features than the larger distributions. It's not intended as a
> drop-in replacement for a regular desktop Linux install but as a
> rescue CD for booting and inspecting systems.
> 
> Even here, though, LNX-BBC is conservative; the hard drives will be
> mounted read-only and you have to mount them manually to read/write
> to perform modifications. It's possible to roll your own variant of
> LNX-BBC using the GAR packaging system.
> 
> The current version of LNX-BBC is a little behind the curve, having
> been released in May 2003. That's not to say that this isn't a
> useful distribution, though. Plenty of tools are included for
> inspection and recovery of misbehaving systems, and the network
> facilities include SSH and Bitorrent clients.
> 
> LNX-BBC doesn't compete with the heavyweight distributions, but nor
> is it intended to do so. As a system recovery CD that fits in your
> wallet it can be forgotten about until you need it, and then it'll
> be a blessing.

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"vira" (as "opus" & "opera"), and "viri" is the plural
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