Kernel 2.6 Live CD From Gentoo

killergreen writes "I know some of us (myself in particular) really dig LiveCDs for work (some make fantastic diagnostic and/or security tools) or play. Well,here's one that incorporates the 2.6 kernel for experementation."

Re:Knoppix is closed...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html [knopper.net]

Wake up and smell the kibble. Read the whole thing and they tell you where to go.

I'm posting w/ 2.6 now!!

[spineboy]

I must say that they (Gentoo) have made it pretty easy to install. I've been using Linux for a year now as an end user (Mandrake and more recently Suse) and I found this easier to install than I thought it would be.

There are about 20 pages of instructions on howto install the system, which after I printed it out, was much easier than I thought it would be. There is a large selection of software available from their site (games, sys utils, etc) and the whole system makes installing them very easy. The time spent compiling the program is prolly about as much as I would spend looking for it (and dealing with RPM hell)....

Overall it feels very snappy/quick and very consistent (I was beginning to find Mandrake a little flaky after 2 years of using 'drake).

I dunno, I just like it. Pretty much everyone now has an extra 10 gig or so on their hard drives, and installing this (and the new 2.6 kernel!)is pretty fun.

Just gave it a try.

[Master Rux]

Only 73MB so it fit on a pocket cd, and sure enough it's a live CD alright. It booted me right up to a command line. It doesn't have a GUI. It has a textual and graphical version of links, so you can surf the web. Looks like it's just the basics.

Re:First of all

[killergreen]

Yup, I admit,it's a couple of weeks old. I've been offline for a little bit, and had just caught up on my reading. Saw the post at gentoo.org just last night, and thought I'd share the info. Very glad to see that it helped at least a couple of people.

I run Gentoo on my home computer exclusively (did I spell that right? No spell checker here ;) ), and have found it to be "snappier" and more responsive than any other OS I've used. Including other distros. Anyone have benchmarks on various distros? That would be really good reading.

Second of all, gentoo LiveCDs aren't like knoppix or those other ones. Most of the time they are used to install a permanent gentoo installation. You just boot off of them to get to the first stage and to start compiling your gentoo system.

Apreche is mostly right here. For the most part, Gentoo LiveCDs are used as an installation media. However, you can get the Game CDs that have a full GUI, and I've personally found that the standard LiveCDs can be used to rescue a broken system in a pinch. I had to use one the other day to fix my borked RedHat server at work (my fault, I typo'd in grub.conf.)

And you can bet it's going to be freakin' awesome.

Couldn't agree more, Apreche