Check out the SLAX OS.(they have the 6th version)(the 6th version is still in progress)

It can be in a cd or usb.
It has my favorite program: VisualBoy Advance
Plus, a very cool alternative for those suppresed by User Account Controls in Vista


One thing, in usb you need a bios that supports usb as a priority...
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which i don't have
but have dos to which i use to boot it
i am not really sure how to really boot it on a usb card reader, bu i'm still on it!

 

 

 

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so you first boot into DOS and then you run slax from the USB-stick ? How do you do this ?
Plus, you've forgotten to mention the most important thing about slax, it's full customisable using a windows app. You can add and remove software (these are provided in modules) before you create your own, personal live-cd

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Actually in BIOS, you need to setup to boot from CD -> USB -> HDD. So if there's a bootmgr in the CD, it will boot from CD first. eg. window CD or linux CD. If there's no CD, then it will boot from USB then HDD.

Btw, you can create your own BootMgr to put it in CD and boot from a few Live CD since those are pretty small in size. But haven't tried that yet.

Tell me if anyone tried those. Cheers

 

 

 

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i dont trust live cds anymore, i havent used one since last year, i was trying to partition my jump drive and it got confused and destroyed the hard drive... not a nice day, i had to try and fix it before my dad got home (had like 4 hours), ended up taking about 2 months to fix (i ended up getting a new hard drive), well actually didnt fix it, just got a new hard drive cos it was completely stuffed... Linux for ya, i used to like it, now i dont, the only 2 that i like are fedora and suse, for some reason i really like them and would quite happily use them, the rest of them i wont bother with, not reliable. nice thing with windows and mac is that its made by enormous companies that most people know, linux distros are peoples little home made projects, lol.

my 2 cents!

i think i used slax once before and hated it.

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Sten you just made me cry inside Calling linux unreliable and windows reliable... ouch...

I love live cds, they are an insanely cool concept. While I don't personally use them in a lot of functional situations they are pretty awesome. I'm loving how a lot of distros are making their install cds live cds now, so you can boot into the distro before installing all off one media.

As for Slax I haven't tried it but if it is based off slackware it's gotta be solid. Slackware has always been a nice distro so Slax is probably well put together since its based off that code. I can't imagine it frying any hard drives (unless you do something like format your drive to an unusual file system and don't know how to change it back... *ahem*)

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Yah.. Love the concept of live CD. No long installation to test out the OS. Just boot it and there you go.

But anyway you are right to say that windows and mac are operated by big companies, however I've used linux and they are very powerful if you know what you want for your OS and app. (they only things is that there's a lot of configuration) A lot of open source application are very powerful too. e.g I would choose Eclipse over Net Bean.

Just my 1 cent worth. Cheers

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wrong time, wrong person. I've been trying to install Gentoo on my computer for a whole day ... nothing, nada, noppes. Can't realy say that that is reliable ?
Slax is pretty reliable, as longs as you don't start adding modules, these sometimes get stuffed up or there are some dependecies missing.

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lol sorry jeigh!

lmao, but i just think that windows well is reliable and way more reliable then linux. a live cd never cost me so much money before though. cos while i was getting a new hard drive i also got more ram, that cost a bit!

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