_Not_ based on Knoppix?

[benplaut]

so, other than Hoary Live, what live distros are out there that are not based on Knoppix? For some reason, any of the knoppix based lives i tried would not boot on the old Pavillion 6873's we're trying to restore.

i would love to install Hoary+XFCE, but the tech teacher wants to see that it can actually run faster before he will let us install it. Hoary live with gnome... :roll:

(Morphix is based on Knoppix, BTW)

[Zelut]

so, other than Hoary Live, what live distros are out there that are not based on Knoppix? For some reason, any of the knoppix based lives i tried would not boot on the old Pavillion 6873's we're trying to restore.

i would love to install Hoary+XFCE, but the tech teacher wants to see that it can actually run faster before he will let us install it. Hoary live with gnome... :roll:

(Morphix is based on Knoppix, BTW)
Another live flavor that I've enjoyed is SLAX based on slackware. You can find that at slax.linux-live.org.

[Xian]

Yes, SLAX is a great LiveCD. PCLinuxOS (Mandriva-based) is another good selection.

[geearf]

You also have MEPIS.

[jodef]

Check the LiveCD link in my sig should provide numerous options.

[claydoh]

PCLinuxOS (http://pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=77e9db29cbdfdc7a6055f623fe396 92d) is based on Mandrake

Mandrake Move (http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move) is another choice

Mepis, not sure if it is based on anything

Then there is the ultra-small Puppy (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/)

Linspire, and Suse have demo version Live-cd's as well

[BAshworth]

Damn Small Linux is a good one to try too.

[23meg]

Yes, SLAX is a great LiveCD. PCLinuxOS (Mandriva-based) is another good selection.

i'll second slack as the best live distro i've used. even its choice of kde isn't enough to keep me from saying this..

[Chrysaor]

Damn Small Linux is a good one to try too.

I love DSL, i boot it from my UMS MP3 player. :-) Its only 50MB, and got tons of stuff.

[somuchfortheafter]

dsl is based on knoppix though.....

[totalshredder]

I love DSL, i boot it from my UMS MP3 player. :-) Its only 50MB, and got tons of stuff.

DamnSmallLinux is knoppix based :) You might be able to get it to work though.

[weekend warrior]

That's too bad none of those worked for you benplaut. I guess your teacher isn't too impressed just yet huh? Keep at it, something will work. Another one I can think of is Zen Linux (http://www.zenlinux.org). It's a LiveCD Debian sid installer. There's a core version (I haven't tried) that might work for you. Give it a spin, see what happens.

[weekend warrior]

Here's a screenshot of the Zen core desktop.

screenie (http://www.zenlinux.org/drupal/?q=node/71)

[weekend warrior]

Here's another LiveCD list, but this one has good descriptions.

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/LiveCD/

HTH