SlaX is another good, smaller, faster distro that doesn't stop as much as
the others when it boots.  Security Insert lets you write to NTFS file
systems, although I think Mandrake might also have this ability.

--
+ David "Huertanix" Huerta
+ DeVry Linux User Group
+ http://www.devrylinux.org

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Mike wrote:

> Well I have tested the 4 major player's int the "Live Cd" Linux market.  I
> used Knoppix, Mepis, Mandrake, and SuSE. I searched for others but I amy have
> overlooked them. In my  "opinion" the 2 best were by far Knoppix and Mepis in
> that order. Next up Mandrake and SuSE. I was most disapointed with SuSE. It
> flat out sucked! 4+ minutes to boot if it booted, to many options, and it
> crashed. I tried all of these distro's on many different types of boxes to
> get a good feel. Mandrake booted after time, but the apps available would not
> have been my first choice. Like no Mozilla for example. It had Konqueror
> only, which I use most often as it starts faster than mozilla, but I would
> have prefered a choice. Mepis was ok, quick boot, lot's of packages
> available, and overall user friendly, but, I still had issues with it
> auto-configuring the correct screen resolutions, on most boxes. I would
> prefer an OS to bot and not be tweaked before I use it. Overall I liked
> Knoppix the best. User friendly, auto-detected every box to the "T" and all
> within 1.5 minutes. My winxp box boots up in 90 seconds as well, but I like
> the Linux packages better. I am using two way different machines here as
> well. My xp box is a 1.8ghz AMD Athalon Compaq w/512mb RAM, and my Linux box
> is an old Compaq w/ Intel PII 450mhz & 64mb RAM. This box has not been
> rebooted in over 60 days, and not once crashed. My xp box has crashed 1 time
> in 2 years however it gets rebooted daily!If linux could only use USB for
> communications (wireless USB nic) I would lose WinXP for good. Although
> unfortunately for me I do still need SQL+ which I believe is only available
> for win clients. I may be wrong and if so correct me!!
> 	All in all even though I use SuSE at home, I hated the "Live Eval" cd, but
> Knoppix is still on top for me. Heck wht did you all expect, I hate RH as
> well. I may try Fedora just to see if they did something right....
> <;~
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