What is your favorite live cd and why?

[frostbyte5014]

Do you have a favorite live cd you use all the time? What is your favorite, and why do you prefer it?

 

[jj2000]

knoppix all the way, does everything i need.
http://www.knoppix.org/

 

[ithinkyou5.0]

second that. knoppix is awesome for all my needs and ive never had a case where ive needed any other live cd but that yet plus im a sucker for all things linux.

 

[JasonRulesUDont]

I've found Ubuntu is awesome for when you stay at a friends house who's dad is gone and has a password on Windows.

 

[frostbyte5014]

I like knoppix ok, but I like minipe because I can run my favorite portables like smitfraud, combofix, malwarebytes, jkdefrag ect.

 

[chronage]

ERD Commander. It's simple and works .

 

[doortodoorgeek]

fav distro

Because of the lack of speed from a live cd, I just backup data with'em, I do use PenDriveLinux2008, it is simple, clean and does the job

With that said evey pc (2 desktops and 3 laptops) in my house except one runs linux full time

and after football season they will all be linux

 

[davesomebody]

Gparted live CD!

gparted live CD is a linux live cd with gnu partition editor built into it.

I've actually bought two partition editors over the years. As a hobbyist I discovered that whatever I buy isn't up to the job after sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. What a waste of money!

Recently I had two occasions where I needed to repartition drives and found myself too cheap to buy yet another partition editor. In one instance I used it to repartition a newish drive I took out of an old system and slapped into a USB enclosure. On another occasion I used it to repartition a parallels desktop partition I had expanded.

Worked like a champ both times!

 

[doortodoorgeek]

gparted live CD is a linux live cd with gnu partition editor built into it.

I've actually bought two partition editors over the years. As a hobbyist I discovered that whatever I buy isn't up to the job after sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. What a waste of money!

Recently I had two occasions where I needed to repartition drives and found myself too cheap to buy yet another partition editor. In one instance I used it to repartition a newish drive I took out of an old system and slapped into a USB enclosure. On another occasion I used it to repartition a parallels desktop partition I had expanded.

Worked like a champ both times!

good shout out, i love gparted and parted magic

 

[veedar]

Knoppix is great but Accelerated Knoppix I use more often as it boots in half the time.

http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/index_en.html

 

[abe]

hiren 9.7 now has a live mini xp including all the hiren tools for windows.

ofcourse hiren's boot disks are for educational purposes only

 

[i2omani]

Knoppix

Knoppix i second, triple and quadruple that!

 

[technut]

Ubuntu/Xubuntu, Puppy and Knoppix.

 

[gunslinger]

hiren 9.7 now has a live mini xp including all the hiren tools for windows.

ofcourse hiren's boot disks are for educational purposes only

Yea, its my fave too but people on here seem to frown on me for it.

 

[l337]

im a fan of hirens and minipe too XD

 

[Methical]

I'd agree with Knoppix; Hiren's isn't to bad either. Recommend branding your boot CD, always looks good when your doing it infront of a customer, very professional like; and use a USB flash drive with my up-to-date portable toolkit.

 

[purple_minion]

Systemrescuecd has always allowed me to do anything I want. Plus with all the CLI babbling and clicking they would be blown away. Nothing makes you look masterful like typing!!!

 

[Methical]

LOL @ masterful like typing!
Pretty much why I used to laugh at everyone @ course making there websites in DreamWeaver. As my old man used to say... real men use notepad.

 

[purple_minion]

LOL @ masterful like typing!
Pretty much why I used to laugh at everyone @ course making there websites in DreamWeaver. As my old man used to say... real men use notepad.

EXACTLY! Nothing says expert like...
mkdir /mnt/my_slick_usb_drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdg1 /mnt/my_slick_usb_drive
fdisk -l
ddrescue if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/my_slick_usb_drive
umount /mnt/my_slick_usb_drive
shutdown -h now
laugh at wonderment and questions

mounting over smb or nfs is even more impressive, but alas I can't remember the command.

ALSO there is never going to be that "you pushed two buttons" crap. Tell them to figure out the commands themselves with the man page!!!!!!!! HA!

 

[gunslinger]

Looks impressive but by the time you are done typing I could have run Ccleaner and be half way done with a Malwarebytes scan.