The other day I was at the local news stand. I was looking at the Linux
Format magazine (DVD edition) to see what programs they put on the DVD.
The cover mentioned something about a Slackware-Live iso being included
on the DVD. I said to myself, "I thought the only way that you could get
the Slackware Live CD was to buy it." I bought the magazine and brought
it home so I could check this Slackware-Live iso. It turned that this
iso is a distro based on Slackware, that is supposed to fit on a mini
CD. The iso is 187 MB and I only have 180 MB mini CD-Rs so I burned it
to a 700 MB CD-RW and booted it up.

Actually, it is pretty neat. It has KDE 3.1 that looks really good. I
booted it on my Winblows box, and as it booted it requested and got a
lease from dhcp on my Slackware box. I could use ssh to log on to my
Slackware box, but I could not get the web page to work from the
Slackware-Live box. There was another mini CD Linux distro called
LNX-BBC on the DVD, which I also tried. The LNX-BBC could not get a
lease from my Slackware box like the Slackware-Live distro did.

I guess that the Slackware-Live will come in handy for doing rescue type
work, and showing people how Slackware Linux works. If anyone is
interested in checking it out it can be found at:

www.slackware-live.org

There are scripts that let a person create their own Slackware-Live CD
at the site, if one desires to do so.
--
jamess
Slackware Linux... The choice of professionals.