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| Some of these
are for system rescue tasks. Some are full featured
distributions (on a single CD) that can run anywhere,
school labs, Internet cafes, on a Windows system where
ever you are.
BBLCD
Toolkit
http://bblcd.berlios.de/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/
BBLCD is the acronym for Bernhard's Bootable Linux CD or
Build your own Bootable Linux CD. BBLCD is a toolkit for
building your own bootable Linux CD from your favorite
(and possibly customized) distribution. It uses, more or
less, an intelligent cp -a / /dev/cdrom to
create a CDROM from an existing system. Version 0.7.7
was released April 9, 2003.
CDLinux
http://cdlinux.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdlinux/
CDLinux is a Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on a CD.
ClumpOS
http://clumpos.psoftware.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/clumpos/
From Pachyderm Software, ClumpOS is a CD-based Linux/MOSIX
mini-distribution designed to allow you to quickly, or
temporarily, add nodes to a MOSIX cluster. By default
ClumpOS will attempt to configure the system for correct
MOSIX operation, but an 'Expert' mode allows users to
manually configure network and MOSIX settings. Version
R5.0 was released February 12, 2002, with Linux kernel
2.4.17 and MOSIX 1.5.7 for 2.4.17. Version R7.0 was
released September 18, 2002. Support for ClumpOS was
discontinued as of January 31, 2003.
Cool
Linux CD
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/emergencycd2/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/coollinuxcd/
Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD that contains a live
Linux distribution based on Red Hat 7.3. It also
includes the XFS filesystem, devfs, IceWM, QVWM, ROX-filer,
OpenOffice.org, Opera, Mozilla, Sylpheed, Pan, Licq,
X-chat, GFTP, ppp-redialer, xmms, xine, mplayer, gqview,
LinNeighborhood, IPTraffic, VMWare, and more. Initial
version 1.30 was released August 13, 2002. Version 2.01
was released November 24, 2002.
Crash Recovery
Kit
http://crashrecovery.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/crk/
The Crash Recovery Kit for Linux is based on Red Hat
Linux. It can be used as a recovery disc for lots of
systems, not just Linux. All Linux filesystems as well
as FAT16 and FAT32 are supported. Version 2.4.18 was
released March 31, 2002.
Damn Small
Linux
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/damnsmalllinux/
Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Linux
distribution. Despite it's miniscule size it strives to
have a functional and easy to use desktop. The initial
freshmeat announcement for version 0.1 was released
March 19, 2003.
DemoLinux
http://www.demolinux.org/
DemoLinux is a complete distribution on a bootable CDROM.
Take Linux with you and run Linux anywhere. The website
shows multi-lingual support for English, French,
Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese. DemoLinux
3.01p15 was released July 27, 2002.
Devil-Linux
http://www.devil-linux.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/devillinux/
Devil-Linux is a special Linux distribution used for
Firewalls and Routers. The goal of Devil-Linux is to
have a small, customizable and secure Linux OS. It comes
on a CDROM and saves configuration data on a floppy
disk, and it has several optional packages. Devil-Linux
0.5RC1 (Beta) was released May 30, 2002. Devil-Linux 0.5
was released September 2, 2002.
DyneBolic
http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic
DyneBolic is a live bootable CDROM that will give you a
Linux desktop on any machine with a CD drive. Comes with
audio streaming, realtime video effects, and Mozilla web
browser. Development version 1.0 alpha 4 was released
February 21, 2003.
eLSD
http://www.thinman.com/eLSD/
The Linux
Society Distro, eLSD, was announced
September 21, 2002. Derived from Devil-Linux, eLSD is a
highly secure CD boot only OS. It's currently available
in three versions:
0.1 - Devil-Linux offered as a build and burn kit.
0.2 - This version begins to make changes towards the
eLSD goals by creating a bigger divide between the
initrd/linuxrc boot and the init/boot in the OS. It also
boots w/o the floppy that includes the /etc filesystem.
0.3 - This version actually converts Devil-Linux into an
optional hard drive boot OS. The boot process occurs
entirely in the initrd phase and then accesses the
harddrive. This kit offers a robust kernel, two custom
initrds -- one that boots to busybox/tinylogin -- and
grub and parted support.
Embedded
Freedom Linux
http://www.softkits.com/freedom/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/freedomlinux/
Freedom is a bootable Linux CD, to help new users see
the power of Linux. It is built with BBLCD, WhiteDwarf,
and Slackware packages. It works on PCs and laptops,
supports wireless PCMCIA cards and almost any network,
video, and sound card, and features software from many
open source projects such as fvwm95 ( familiar windows
95 look and feel) gftp, GTK-Gnutella, centerICQ, Dillo,
sylpheed, airsnort, SSH, and more. The initial release,
version 1, was released December 15, 2002.
EMERGENCY
CD
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emergencycd2/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/emergencycd2/
The LINUX EMERGENCY CD project has a bootable CD-ROM
distribution, with Linux kernel 2.4.19-xfs(i586). It's a
console-only mini-distribution based on Red Hat 7.3 and
includes many console tools and utilities. The initial
version, 2.01, was released under the GNU General Public
License on January 27, 2003.
Finnix
http://www.finnix.org/
Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD
distribution, based on Red Hat Linux 6.1. Finnix was
created as a system maintenance distribution. You can
mount hard drives, set up network devices, repair
filesystems, and pretty much do anything you can do with
a regular distribution.
FIRE
http://biatchux.dmzs.com/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/biatchux-blarg/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biatchux/
FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution
with the goal of providing an immediate environment to
perform forensic analysis, incident response, data
recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment.
The initial version (v.0.1.0.5b) was released February
28, 2002. FIRElite v0.2b was released August 19, 2002.
Gibraltar
http://gibraltar.at/
Gibraltar is a project that aims to produce a Debian
GNU/Linux-based router and firewall package. This
package boots and runs from CD-ROM, so a hard disk
installation is not necessary. Version 0.99.6 was
released January 13, 2003.. Version 0.99.6a was released
January 24, 2003.
innominate
Bootable Business Card
http://www.innominate.com/Produkte/Rescue_CD/rescue_cd.html
A bootable rescue disc on a business card sized CD. Web
site in German.
KNOPPIX
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
English: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/knoppix/
A German distribution. Take your KNOPPIX CD with you
when you're on the road and run Linux anywhere. KNOPPIX
is a complete GNU/Linux installation which runs from CD,
with automatic hardware detection and configuration for
many graphics and sound cards, SCSI devices, and
peripherals. Version 1.5 (the initial Freshmeat
announcement) was released May 29, 2002. Version
3.2-2003-04-09 was released April 10, 2003.
Linuxcare
Bootable Business Card
http://lbt.linuxcare.com/
The LBT is a fully usable miniature Linux distribution
which can be placed on a credit-card sized CD media. The
distribution should work in almost any PC with almost
any operating system. It offers over 101mb of software
including a 2.4 kernel, Xfree86 4.1, full network
services for both pci and pcmcia cards, wireless
connectivity, perl, and a lot more.
LNX-BBC
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough
to fit on a business card sized CDROM. LNX-BBC can be
used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion
post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, install
Debian, and perform many other tasks.
Lonix
http://lonix.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lonix/
Lonix is a console-based full Linux system which runs
from a live CD. Based on Linux From Scratch, this
distribution includes useful utilities for students and
developers. Some servers, such as Apache, Proftpd, and
sshd are pre-configured and included. It can also be
used as a partition tool (featuring fdisk and parted) or
as a rescue CD. Currently, the homepage and some scripts
in the CD are just in Spanish. There may be a future
release that is also in English. The initial Freshmeat
announcement for version 1.0rc3, was made on October 13,
2002. Version 1.0rc5 was released October 27, 2002.
Mastodon
http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Mastodon/
Mastodon, version INST0064 was released March 9, 2001.
It is a self-booting 360MB CD image, suitable for
burning onto a CD-ROM.
MkCDrec
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/
mkCDrec makes a bootable disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso),
including backups of the Linux system to the same CD-ROM
(or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM
set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another
local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape. After a disaster
(disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be
booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete
system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run).
Morphix
http://am.xs4all.nl/drupal/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/morphix/
Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-CD support.
No configuration is necessary, just burn the CD and boot
it. Morphix is partly based on KNOPPIX, the rest comes
directly from Debian. The initial version, 0.3-2, was
released February 27, 2003. Version 0.3-4 was released
April 3, 2003.
Phrealon
Linux
http://www.halfling.org/phrealon/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/phrealon/
Phrealon is a bootable Linux CD based on Slackware Linux
8.0 designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple
workstations. It utilizes the updcast set of Linux tools
to accomplish this. The initial release, version 0.80,
was released November 7, 2002. Version 0.82 was released
February 27, 2003.
PlumpOS
http://plumpos.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/plumpos/
PlumpOS is a CD-based mini-openMosix/Linux distribution.
Pop the CD into a 586+ computer and you have an instant
openMosix node. It supports loading 3rd-party packages
and adding custom kernels. It was originally a clone of
Clump/os, but it turned into a complete rewrite. Version
6.9 RC1 was released March 27, 2003.
Repairlix
http://repairlix.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/repairlix/
Repairlix is a networked Linux distribution/bootable
system intended to fit in 12MB of media - so small that
an image can be burned onto a business-card-sized shaped
CDROM, suitable for your wallet. It has a suite of
utilities for doing system recovery.
rpm-livelinuxcd
http://nwst.de/livelinuxcd/lilinux.phtml?include=htm/en_welcome.htm
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpm-livelinuxcd/
rpm-livelinuxcd is a 120MB RedHat-based distribution
that runs completely from CD, fits into around 80MB of
RAM and is nearly indistinguishable from a system
installed on a hard disk. Features include hardware
recognition at boot, samba, dhcpd, name, xinetd, and SSH
servers, virtual terminals, PAM, etc. Useful for
dedicated servers, routers, emergency systems, cluster
nodes and such, it does not contain an X11 Server.
Initial version 0.9 was released March 5, 2003.
RunOnCD
http://www.easylinux.co.kr/
Download 2.1 (English version): http://www.easylinux.co.kr/ttboard/ttboard.cgi?act=view&code=4&bname=
DOWNLOAD&page=1
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/runoncd/
Use Linux without the installation. Version 2.1 of
RunOnCD is based on Red Hat 7.1. This site is mostly in
Korean, with some English. Version 2.1 is dated December
7, 2001.
RxLinux
http://on-x.ca/html/rxlinux.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rxlinux/
RxLinux seeks to centralize configuration and management
of multiple Linux servers. A Web interface is used to
build custom ISO CD-ROMs dedicated for specific servers.
Servers, also called rxnodes, boot up from that CD-ROM
and get the rest of the configuration and software from
a master server. No administration is done directly on
the nodes; everything is controlled from the master
servers. When the rxnode has finished booting up and all
software is running, it is completely independent from
the rxmaster until the next reboot. The initial version,
1.0 beta1 was released July 5, 2002. Version 1.3.3 was
released April 5, 2003.
Sentry
Firewall
http://www.sentryfirewall.com/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/sentry_firewall_cd/
Sentry Firewall CD-ROM is a Linux based bootable CD-ROM
suitable for use as an inexpensive and easy to maintain
Firewall or IDS (Intrusion Detection System) Node. The
system is designed to be immediately configurable for a
variety of different operating environments via a
configuration file located on a floppy disk or a local
hard drive. Version 1.2.0 was released March 27, 2002.
Version 1.4.0-beta2 was released October 25, 2002.
Slackware
Live CD
http://www.slackware-live.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/slacklive/
Slackware Live CD is a bootable CD containing a Linux
operating system. It runs Linux directly from CDROM
without installing. The live CD described here is based
on Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable as
an ISO. There are also all the scripts and source code
needed to build your own live CD. Version 2.9.0.12 was
released April 8, 2003.
SuperRescue
http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/
SuperRescue is a single very large bootable
system-on-a-disk. It's based on the observation that the
vast majority of systems allow you to do so much more
than the minimal system. Therefore, it isn't for
everything, but for most desktop systems, it provides a
much nicer rescue environment than your average rescue
floppy. This version furthermore uses transparent
compression to fit about 1.4 GB of software onto a
single CD in usable form.
Timo's
Rescue CD
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/
Timo provides an easy way to generate a rescue system on
a bootable CD, which can be easily adapted to your own
needs. The project has evolved into a "Debian on
CD" project, so it's not only possible to use the
system as a rescue CD, it is also possible to install a
whole Debian system on CD. Works with other
distributions as well.
Trinity
Rescue Kit
http://trinityhome.org/trk/
The Trinity Rescue Kit is based on Mandrake 9.0. It is
designed to rescue/repair/prepare dead or damaged
systems, be it Linux or Windows. It now has networking
capabilities like ssh and samba and supports about every
network card, disk controller and USB controller.
Version 1.0 was released March 7, 2003.
TrX
http://www.trxlinux.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/trx/
TrX is a project that aims to produce a Debian
GNU/Linux-based desktop router and firewall package
based on Knoppix. This system will be bootable directly
from CD-ROM, so hard disk installation will not be
necessary. The initial Freshmeat release of TrX, version
3.2, was made available March 12, 2003.
Virtual
Linux
http://www.virtual-linux.org/index.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtuallinux/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-linux/
Virtual Linux is based on Mandrake 8.1, modified to run
from CDROM. Modifications include a new startup script,
automatic search and mount of CDROM drive, and cloop
compression. The CD contains 1.7 GB of software. Version
1.1 was released May 4, 2002.
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