Yes, Gentoo has a PPC-Live distro. I have a copy, I just haven't gotten around to sneaking into the Art Institute to try it out. -- + David "Huertanix" Huerta + DeVry Linux User Group + http://www.devrylinux.org On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, tickticker wrote: > Is there anything "Live" for the PowerPC platform? > > anthony > > From: David Huerta > Date: 2004/02/25 Wed AM 11:18:10 EST > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: "Live Cd's" > > 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.... > > <;~ > > -- > > 2:48am up 70 days 10:01, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.07, 0.02 > > Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB #1 Mon Mar 17 17:54:44 UTC 2003 i686 unknown unknown > > GNU/Linux > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss