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Scientific Linux Live CD

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 based distribution.

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

2nd of July 2006, 14:30 GMT

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Scientific Linux Live CD is

a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. This Live CD is based on Scientific Linux 4, which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 sources.

Scientific Linux Live CD uses the Unification File System (unionfs) which allows read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one and squashfs providing on-the-fly decompression that allows to store 2GB software on a normal CD-ROM. The Live CD/DVD was build using modified scripts from www.linux-live.org.

The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD can be used to setup a server for Diskless Client. The diskless clients will run Scientific Linux without a local Linux installation getting the operation system over the network (via NFS).

Included software:

￭ Kernel 2.6.9
￭ AFS Client
￭ Xorg 6.8.2
￭ ALSA sound drivers
￭ KDE 3.3.1
￭ Icewm 1.2.20
￭ Gimp 2.0.5
￭ Evolution 2.0.2
￭ Openoffice.org Suite 1.1.2
￭ Sun JDK 1.4.2
￭ K3b
￭ HelixPlayer
￭ XMMS
￭ Mozilla Firefox
￭ Mozilla Thunderbird
￭ Mozilla Mail
￭ Gpdf
...and many more!

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