Brainwagon Radio: Live Linux CDs!

March 16, 2005 | Audioblogs and Podcasting, Brainwagon Radio, General | By: Mark VandeWettering

Business card CD blanks can hold 50Mbytes, enough to boot Damn Small LinuxAnother mobile podcast, recorded with my Dell Axim x50v PDA and Resco Audio Recorder. This morning I chat a bit about various LiveCDs on Linux, and muse about the possibility of a specialized LiveCD for podcasting.

Links from the show:

  • Knoppix is probably the best known Linux LiveCD. Daniel Barlow’s Linux Journal article talks about mastering your own version of Knoppix.
  • Damn Small Linux is a bit more petite, and therefore a bit cuter. It fits on one of those business card sized CD blanks like the one pictured on the right.
  • dynebolic is more idiosyncratic, but targets music and media applications.
  • geexbox turns your PC into a media player.
  • I’ve also had good experience with Ubuntu, which also has a LiveCD.