Two such live
CDs are delivered with the Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com/download) and Gentoo Linux
(www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml) projects. Both of these live CDs also offer an
icon on the desktop that lets you install the distribution from the live CD (a basic desktop
install) directly to hard disk when you are ready.
Software projects??”There are open source projects that produce a live CD to let people
try out their projects. The GNOME Live Media project (http://live.gnome.org/
GnomeLiveMedia) offers a live CD that can be used to try the features of GNOME.
Any content you choose??”Live CDs are becoming a popular medium to hold and play
specific content. GeeXBoX Generator and eMoviX2 are spin-offs of GeeXboX and MoviX2
projects for creating live CDs to play any video you include (see the following section).
I??™ve created custom versions of Damn Small Linux that boot directly to a slide show of
images from my family vacation.
Because Linux can act as both a client and server, it is a great medium to demo custom
Web applications. The book Practical PHP and MySQL by Jono Bacon (Prentice Hall,
2006) includes a live CD that contains all the Web applications described in the book.
Because a complete LAMP server package is also on the live CD, that live CD is all you
need to run the sample projects, display them in a Web browser, and modify them in
an HTML editor.
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