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Mon Mar 12 10:39:10 EDT 2007
LiveCDs, nanoblogger
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Live CDs
After getting an emergency call from a good friend of mine to
help him rescue some data off of an old Toshiba laptop running
some strain of Windows, I suggested that he use a "live cd" with
linux and various tools on it. I realized that my inventory of
live cds were a bit dated, so all I could suggest to him was
Ubuntu or Knoppix. Well, Ubuntu seems to be a bit heavy for the
fragile laptop, so now were are on our way to trying Knoppix. If
that doesn't work, we're going to check out the "gparted" live cd
that I stumbled upon. It uses fluxbox and has a partition manag-
er and other neat tools. It is also only 50mb. The only re-
quirements that it needs for us is that it a) can mount usb mass
storage devices and can read NTFS.
Everyone knows where to get Ubuntu and Knoppix, but Parted is at:
gparted
I also created a live cd of the latest DragonFlyBSD. I think
that I need to get off of my butt and create a rescue thumbdrive
containing gparted + other tools. FreeBSD has a couple of relat-
ed projects that aim to help you generate your own live cd - so
maybe I could do that, too.
livecd
freesbie
Lastly, as I wrap up this blurb about live cds, I just found this
list:
List
Nanoblogger
I just found out about this thing called nanoblogger:
nanoblogger
It looks neat and nice and pretty, etc, but I look at it as an
example of what I don't want vee to become. Now more than ever I
am aware of how more options and functionality make software ex-
ponential complex for a diminishing set of returns. For example,
trying to manage categories and different types of content is
hard with out using a RDBMS *if* you care about consistency.
There has been quite a discussion over at bsdnexus.org's forum
regarding options and ideas. Admittedly, I started the thread, so
I am happy to see it taking on some momentum.
here
They've been particular helpful in making suggestions that fit
well with my goals, yet make the user experience that much nicer.
Cheers.
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