Desktop Linux revisited
WANT a quick taste of Linux without installing any software?
Check out Ubuntu, an increasingly popular Linux distribution for desktop PCs. The latest version, 6.06, boots off a CD to give you a preview of the system. You can download an image file (almost 700 megabytes from www.ubuntu.com) and burn a CD using a program like Nero.
Three years ago, I tried another Linux distribution called Knoppix that worked pretty much the same way. The neat thing about live CDs, as they are called, is that you don’t need to install anything to get started. Simply stick in the CD and boot from it and you’re ready to go.
A live CD is great, too, for testing if an operating system will recognize the hardware you have. And, in those instances where your operating system crashes, a live CD can be a useful recovery tool as well.
There are limitations to booting from a CD, however.
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