Live CD: Encyclopedia II - Live CD - List of LiveCDs

Live CD - List of LiveCDs

• Main article List of LiveCDs

Live CD - Apple Macintosh OS-based

• System Folder of Mac OS on a CD or on a floppy disk
• BootCD from Charlessoft for Mac OS X
• Clone X from Tri-Edre for Mac OS X - Commercial Product

Live CD - BSD-based

• DragonFly BSD [1]
• FreeSBIE (Based on FreeBSD)
• NeWBIE (Based on NetBSD)
• Frenzy mini-CD (Based on FreeBSD)
• NetBSD - official livecd image. Direct link and quick reference documentation.
• Anonym.OS, an OpenBSD-based disk for secure anonymous web browsing

Live CD - Linux-based

• Knoppix - The "original" Debian-based LiveCD
• Damn Small Linux - Light-weight Knoppix cut-down to a business card-sized CD or USB pendrive.
• MEPIS - For a Debian (APT compatible) installation
• Morphix - Debian based, with GNOME and fluxbox desktops to elect.
• Puppy Linux - Small (60M), able to burn data back on the LiveCD or DVD itself (via multisession)
• PCLinuxOS - A Mandrake derivative, part of the The LiveCD Project
• SLAX - A Slackware derivative, modular and very easy to remaster.
• Arudius - A Zenwalk/Minislack derivative, modular like Slax.
• Ubuntu - A very popular Debian derivative
• PARDUS-LİNUX - A very popular in TURKEY PARDUS-test derivative
• TURKİX-linux - A very popular in TURKEY AND AZERİA mandrake derivative its easy to use for newbeaa and its now aims SİMPLE KDE project

Live CD - Microsoft Windows-based

• Bart PE (Windows XP/2003)
• XP Live CD (Windows XP) - Commercial Product
• Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (Windows XP) - Extends the capabilities of BartPE
• Avast Bart CD - Commercial Product
• MS PE - Microsoft OEM Product
• n-Lite - installer
• Mini PE XT
• Reatogo Recovery CD

Note however that Windows 2000 and XP cannot run without a swap file. Thus, they still need to make hard disk accesses when booting off a Live CD. Also, Microsoft representatives have described third-party efforts at producing Live CDs as being "improperly licensed" uses of Windows. The Microsoft-sanctioned MS PE product is quite hard to get hold of.

Live CD - OpenSolaris-based

• SchilliX is the first OpenSolaris LiveCD distribution.
• BeleniX
• Nexenta

Live CD - Others

• BeOS - all BeOS discs can be run in LiveCD mode, although PowerPC versions need to be kickstarted from Mac OS 8
• OpenVMS the installation CD is a bootable live CD, which boots to an installation menu allowing full DCL shell access. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/
• Plan 9 had a "Live-floppy" including web browser and compilers around 1992. These days a bootable ISO is built every day, you can download the latest one from: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html
• Hurd http://www.superunprivileged.org/hurd/live-cd/
• SkyOS
• Ging The first LiveCD distribution based on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
• Minix

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "List of LiveCDs", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki