> 2- People often are interested in Linux but fear to touch their PC
> organization (it can be also difficult to reinstall Win9x after a
> disaster...; partitions : WHAT?, with a 's' ?).
I've got 2 solutions for this: #1 Slackware has a LIVE bootable version on the
CD. Its kind of a pain though, since you can't change much configuration.
"READ-ONLY file-system" shows up a lot, but it will change what it can and keep
the changes in RAM. There's also another thing Slackware has that's pretty
cool. ZipSlack. Unzip it to a DOS/Win95/98 partition, edit the linux.bat file,
reboot to DOS and type C:\linux\linux.bat and you're up in Linux, no
repartitioning. I've messed with it, and it seems it may be a good way to get
people started if they are afraid of repartitioning. It takes about 70 megs,
unzipped. No X though., you have to go and install it yourself.
There is a distribution that looks very promising for that. Its called
PhatLinux (www.phatlinux.com). Its basically ZipSlack with a name change and a
Windows-based installer program (installShield). But version 2.0 is supposed to be
out sometime in June. Some of the listed feautures are KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment,
and I think its going to have an RPM based package manager.
> It would be fine (for RH, SuSE...) to develop something like this, based
> now on a 'huge' life CD (if so many apps were crammed on a floppy, a CD
> would be a dream...), and dedicated to newbies, with no hassle for
> particular configurations nor for performances -- just to help to play
> without risk.
I think RH used to have a live CD, but their distributions got too big.
I still don't see why they don't just leave out some extra stuff and make one
anyway. I think there are some distributions that still have the live CD's.
Slackware, as mentioned earlier. Also, Linux Pro and Turbo Linux both do,
I believe (they're both RPM based fairly generic distro's)
Anyway, anyone planning on demoing Quake 3? The beta test of it came out for
Linux before Windows. Well, hope I've helped.
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