Welcome, Everett! What a neat idea. A CD-R distro. How cool is that! We
look forward to meeting you and having some laughs at the next Tampa meeting
or wherever you roam.
/mario
On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:34, Everett Attebury wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I'm Everett, I just joined the list a few days ago. I don't have much
> linux experience; I installed Yellow Dog on my iMac a couple of years
> ago, and it was really cool, but I ended up wiping it to make room on
> the hard drive.
>
> My roommate has a PC, and is allowing me to play with live CD
> distributions, as long as I don't touch his hard drive.
>
> The past couple of days I've been playing with a distribution called
> Puppy Linux. It is a multi-session live CD that let's you save data
> back to the CD. You can read about it here:
> http://www.goosee.com/puppy/news.htm
>
> It is very easy to use, and very small, and requires no hard drive,
> just a pc with a cd writer and 256MB ram. I'm carrying a mini-CDR of
> it with me to try on anyone's PC who will let me.
>
> When I get a newer mac (probably after Tiger is released), I would like
> to do a multi-boot install with OSX and linux. In the meantime, does
> anyone know of any live CD's that will boot a mac?
>
> I hope to make it to some meetings eventually, but right now my work
> schedule won't allow it.
>
> ttyl,
>
> Everett
>
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