Continuing on with our ongoing investigation of alternative Operating Systems, I am going to have each of you do a little digging, and find some more possibilities in terms of Linuix Live CDS. They CAN be useful, provided that we get some that work, or at least work better than the bulk of the ones we tried last week. In keeping with the idea that twelve sets of eyes are better than one -- especially if that one belongs to your instructor, who is blinder than a victim of a zombie eyeball attack-- I am going to have you look up some possible Linux Live CDs that we can try out the next time we're back in C206. Here is what you need to do:
A) go to this website to start:
http://www.livecdlist.com/
it has a great big list of many different versions of Linux
B) at the top of the page where it says "all functions" replace it with "desktop" and hit the UPDATE button
C) This should shorten the list ONLY to those CDs where you can pretty much run the computer from the CD, but not actually install anything to the hard drive. from this shorter list, I want you to pick out at least four possible Live CDs, and NONE of them can be those that we've already used in the lab downstairs
D) under the "name" column, pick out a link to one of those versions that you've chosen to get to the website where you can download it
E) Once at their website, find out the following:
- where you can download the actual file
- what features this particular CD has
when you're done with that first one, repeat this process for the other three you've chosen
F) create a discussion post listing all the information you've gathered, with your name and "possible Linux" in the topic header
Th-th-thats all folks!
Mr. L
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