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AlexPlank

06-03-2003, 05:55 PM

I put this in the PPC forum but thought you guys here might like to know.
Gentoo released a new powerpc bootable livecd.
gentoo.org (http://www.gentoo.org)

ashibaka

06-03-2003, 06:19 PM

I nearly got that running last week, but the download went *poof* in its final moments :(

Trawlerman

06-03-2003, 07:41 PM

Is there an equivalent Live-CD for the x86 platform?

I did have a look on the UK mirror site but couldnt spot it.

Many thanks

Syntaxis

06-03-2003, 08:00 PM

Most certainly there is. x86 LiveCDs are ten a penny, mostly Knoppix knock-offs. They've been mostly x86-only because Knoppix is x86 and it's simpler to just customize Knoppix than to recompile everything for another architecture. Good to see that someone's finally done so, though :).

Anyway, check out Knoppix at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html. There's also Morphix (http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/) which was one of the first Knoppix derivatives, but their latest version is pretty broken. As I say, there are tons of others, but Knoppix should do pretty much anything you need.

sarah31

06-04-2003, 12:19 AM

cross post !

Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379

06-04-2003, 02:00 AM

Originally posted by sarah31
cross post !

You got to it first!

This is neat news, but I'd think that anyone interested in such news would have already been checking out the LinuxPPC forum anyways...

Trawlerman

06-04-2003, 08:23 AM

Thanks for that Syntaxis....

I'll look those up. :D