A new live CD is now available (XO-LiveCD_080812.iso 426.01 MB) at:

 

Bittorrent - http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=0902d803b94822a07b7a5da6193147c10e0c83d8
HTTP - http://www.skolelinux.de/download/XOLiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080812.iso

Yet another bootable live CD distro that is loaded with goodies to clean your machine. This distro is particularly good for those of you who haven't kicked the "Windows" habit. Yeah, we know who you are, but that's ok. All in good time. Eventually, all your base are belong to us

Trinity works on Linux machines as well for partitions, etc.  From their site:

For those of you that have interest in the development of Linux distros, this great time line details the genealogy of the the most common Linux distributions. 

http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/linux-distro-timeline-2/ 

-jasonstone 

It looks like UbuntuStudio is out. By the looks of what they were proposing, it would make for a perfect (or near-perfect...nothing is perfect. really.) platform for my ISYS 568 Multimedia class. The site is extremely busy at the moment, but I am sure it will improve in a bit. The torrent link for download is at: http://ubuntustudio.org/files/UbuntuStudio_7.04.torrent

From their website:

Linux ISO that is a 'complete podcast package'

http://boxpopuli.com/installfestmay2007.html via http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/05/podcast_in_a_box_install.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

There's a funny writeup on Linux.com about Debian. Here's a glimpse:

 

"Debain is the only group of software developers who still believe that Richard Stallman invented programming. Everyone else now correctly credits Bill Gates for doing so. Debain developers hold themselves separate from the rest of the Linux community because of their pride in not stealing from other operating systems to build their version of Linux. All other versions of Linux are based directly on Windows. "

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Tired of the same old splash screen? Well, try SUM or StartUp Manager, a GUI tool to select start screens etc. From their site:

StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in the bootloader and splash screen in ubuntu.

It works for Debian Etch as well. http://web.telia.com/~u88005282/sum/index.html 

Post install configuration and downloading of extra packages for media etc. has been a hassle with many distros. These distros cannot pre-package many files due to a lack of legal agreement with the providers. Case in point is Adobe (née Macromedia) Flash. The workaround is to try to automate the process post-install. Ubuntu has an application called Automatix. Debian has something similar now. Its called Hakix. From their websites (http://frenchninja.wordpress.com/development/hakix/) and (http://code.google.com/p/hakix/):

Selecting a suitable Linux distribution can be a daunting task. Asking for opinions leads in 450 different directions. Everyone has their own favorite (I do too!). What matters though is the suitability of the distribution to your needs and/or wishes. I am dealing with the free software bug of way too many CDs that I burned to try things out.

Zegenie Studios have a Linux Distribution Chooser, what appears to be a tree-based decision support application. It asks you a bunch of questions and comes up with a recommendation.  One advantage they have is that the application has been used to recommend over one million times, so it must be fairly close to the real thing (trial by burned CDs).  Before you burn another CD, try http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ 

The official Fedora Core 6 live CD is out.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-December/msg00007.html

"After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (code named 'Zod') and Fedora Extras package collections and is 100% free software. At a glance, the live CD features: Linux 2.6.18, GNOME 2.16 desktop environment, GStreamer 0.10 multimedia framework, X.Org 7.1, AIGLX and Compiz for 3D desktop, lots of applications including, but not limited to Beagle (desktop search), F-Spot (photo management), Evolution (email and calendering), Firefox (web browsing), Ekiga (IP telephony)..."

Download via BitTorrent or directly from Red Hat's server: FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso.