Comments on: Linux in Under 5 Minutes http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cooltaz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71708 Thu, 22 May 2008 16:14:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71708 A new Cooking LiveCD ISO image, providing many improvements from the stable release, is now available.

SliTaz now uses the minimalistic, highly configurable Openbox as its default window manager.

Auto-mounting of removable media, such as USB flash drives, is available.

Most of the major packages have been updated. And software packages can now be easily managed through the graphical SliTaz Packages Manager. Because there are nearly 600 packages on the repositories, there is tremendous scope for expansion.

The cooking LiveCD now offers: Lua, the programming language; Searchmonkey, a fast, real-time desktop search engine; Hardinfo, the system profiler and benchmarker; LXTask, the lightweight task manager; password and clipboard managers; and super-fast Firefox 3.0 RC1.

This version will be showcased at the LinuxDays 2008 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 21-22 May 2008.

Please check it out. It has lots of goodies.

Latest cooking LiveCD: http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/iso/cooking/slitaz-cooking.iso
MD5sum: ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/iso/cooking/slitaz-cooking.md5

]]> By: rosebud http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71707 Mon, 12 May 2008 12:29:02 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71707 “If windows would dump the whole registry idea, I think that it would really be awesome.”

take out registry and replace it with the word proprietary and your statement makes perfect sense.

]]> By: Boycott Novell » Links 11/05/2008: GNU/Linux in the Defense System, New Stable Linux http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71706 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:36:59 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71706 [...] Linux in Under 5 Minutes [...]

]]> By: Jeffrey McManus http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71705 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:50:26 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71705 Five minutes? Too much time for me. I can spin up an instance of a Linux box on Amazon EC2 in like 45 seconds.

]]> By: jeff http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71704 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:49:46 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71704 I actually use Damn Small Linux running within QEMU (similar to VMWARE). That allows me to fire it up while still running Windows. It’s actually pretty handy for accessing my Linux servers. I can SSH into the servers and open the server applications in DSL on my desktop machine.

]]> By: ulrich http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71703 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:45:20 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71703 and don’t forget http://wubi-installer.org/ .

]]> By: Cheesmo http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71702 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:04 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71702 I’ve used Ubuntu Linux 7.? and it’s okay, i guess. I really see no point in learning to use something different when I already own MS OS’s. I like the ease of connecting to networked PC’s in windows. If windows would dump the whole registry idea, I think that it would really be awesome. Maybe someday… probably never.

]]> By: Michael fitzGerald http://gigaom.com/collaboration/linux-in-under-5-minutes/#comment-71701 Fri, 09 May 2008 06:18:31 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2311#comment-71701 I use a CD of puppylinux and duplicate USB drives for my data and back up.
Free, truly portable (I can run on any hardware)and virus free.
The concept of the live CD has defined the end of the traditional operating system.
I don’t know any linux but can insert a CD and click the desktop icon for the application I want to use

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