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auburn
June 13th, 2007, 10:35 AM
I work in a school and I'm interested in creating workstations that have OpenOffice, firefox, a good gui file manager-open/save dialogs (nautilus/thunar) and really good support for adding and removing USB drives (automounting). I think a live linux distro (booting from usb/CF/PXE) would be ideal so I wouldn't have to worry about the hard drive. I'm looking at sff hardware without fans like the linuxtop. http://www.linutop.com/

Suggestions? I plan to try out xubuntu but I'm not sure automounting is set up with it.

Thx.
happy-and-lost
June 13th, 2007, 02:23 PM
Mepis?
johnny4north
June 13th, 2007, 07:03 PM
i recommend puppylinux easy to use/customize, and you can install/save to usb stick. its very easy to make a custom live cd. way cool. heres link - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12714 other live cds are mint and pclinuxOS.
mips
June 14th, 2007, 05:52 AM
The Sabayon DVD probably offers all than and more.
igknighted
June 14th, 2007, 07:55 AM
Use opensuse. The auto-yast feature does exactly what you desire.
LaRoza
June 14th, 2007, 11:00 AM
Sidux, Slax, Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, are all good live OS's with what you want.
wolfen69
June 15th, 2007, 01:55 AM
definitly Sabayon.i think the mini edition will do. the dvd is way over the top.
mips
June 17th, 2007, 08:26 AM
definitly Sabayon.i think the mini edition will do. the dvd is way over the top.

The mini edition does not have open offcie, it has KOffice.
maddot
June 17th, 2007, 08:30 AM
puppy will do just that. you can even use a cd to boot the os and a thumbdrive to store all the data you need. That or, make a thumbdrive bootable.