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Comment by gaabi on July 23, 2009 at 9:36pm

Thanks for that url, Mark, that's a heck of a big pile of useful stuff all in one place!

Comment by Mark Powell on July 1, 2009 at 4:19pm

I found some nice links for Linux live CD ISOs. One is a blog with a section on Forensics CDs. The other is a large list of ISOs, among which are some security distros and also many specialized CDs on eveything from accounting to metal-working.

Here is the page of links for forensics stuff.

This is the Live CD List.

Comment by Mark Powell on July 1, 2009 at 4:06pm

Thanks for the article, Ashley. I often end up going, willy-nilly, to linuxforums.org for answers when Googling for something. I did look up MAS Media, Inc., and there seemed to be precious little about them. Most of what IS there has to do with whois info and that. What do you know about them?

Comment by Ashley Pritchard on June 30, 2009 at 10:15am

I received this from LinuxForums: http://www.linuxforums.org/

Linux Forums News

LinuxForums.org Launches New Article Submission and Review Sections

Buffalo, New York June 25, 2009 – MAS Media Inc. (“MAS Media” or the “Company”), a leader in web based Forums and information technology knowledge publications announced today that it has dramatically enhanced LinuxForums.org by releasing its new article submission and review sections.

The objective of this comprehensive extra section on the site is to continue with the program of ensuring that LinuxForums.org remains as the definitive location in which enthusiasts obtain most of their knowledge regarding Linux and corresponding information technology disciplines.

The new article submission site has been developed from the ground up to ensure simple and complete additions of articles while presenting the information in a well organized manner.

Members posting articles can share all types of knowledge in the form of articles to more than 2 million visitors of Linux forums who frequent the forum monthly. The new section is seamlessly integrated within the membership so that any member can post a comment in the forum and then move swiftly to the article section.

Further, those who post articles are eligible to win a variety of prizes monthly for the best postings as noted by other members and our editor staff. Those prizes include up to 1 year of free hosting on a dedicated server with a retail value of over $600.

“It’s our belief that the new article section within LinuxForums.org will add tremendous incremental information to our base of loyal and new visitors” said Phillip DeLeon, President, MAS Media. DeLeon continues, “members and editors alike can help contribute to published articles by commenting on articles, reviewing and grading them according to the amount of value they bring to the Linux community”.

About MAS Media Inc.

MAS Media is a leading web based publisher of Information Technology related content.. Supporting the role of top tier forum and article based web sites is LinuxForums.org which includes a vast amount of members and a growing community of enthusiasts looking to increase their knowledge by presenting, reading and commenting on a wide range of topics.





MAS Media

2711 Centreville Road
Suite 400
Wilmington, DE
19808
US

Comment by Mark Powell on June 27, 2009 at 4:18pm

Ashley,
Briefly, I started with Slackware 96(tm), tried Red Hat, used Debian for a short time, was with SuSe for a long time, and finally settled on Debian and Ubuntu.
We have to use RHEL in my business, because you have to run Oracle on it. But I built 3 squids on Debian Etch this year, and set up a snort IDS on Debian.
I inherited qmail and djbdns in this job, also on RHEL, and so I have accept Red Hat as a fact of life.

In my last job, the Hearst corporate types tried to force us to go all RH, but I successfully argued that our web farm had to stay on Debian (we are highly-customized, need the freedom to compile our own kernels, etc.).

So I guess I'm a Debian stiff after a long love affair with SuSe. There's probably a joke in there somewhere about all my distros having girls' names, but I'll leave that to the imagination.

I have visited the sites for the distros you've mentioned, and they are indeed interesting additions to the field. I especially like the wallpaper at the top of the elivecd.org home page! I want to try Elive in Virtualbox now. If I like it as much as you have, I might set up a workstation on the job.

Comment by Ashley Pritchard on June 26, 2009 at 5:36pm

well I managed to get it posted but the URLs are not there:
Elive: Elive + Compiz
Welsh spurn Windows to create own Linux: Welsh Spurn Windows
Kyfieithu: Kyfieithu
Cymux: Cymrux - A Welsh Linux Distribution
OpenGEU: OpenGEU Linux

Comment by Ashley Pritchard on June 26, 2009 at 5:27pm

Ok well I tried this a couple of days ago & lost everything due to the system updating. I am going to be as brief as I can because I do not want to take several hours to compose this.
With that said, i have been using Linux on my systems for a long time now. I started with Red Hat Linux (RHL) version 5.x or something and I was so impressed with it that I firmly believed that it was going to overtake the desktop ( something I no longer believe in).
Over the years it has been successes & struggles, but all the better for it. When Red Hat discontinued its box set & decided to focus on its Enterprise edition & leave RHL to merge with Fedora Core (FC) I was so upset that I switched to using SuSe and the wen back to FC after a few generations was kicked out.
I have been fairly steady with sticking to Fedora ever since, that is until Fedora 9 came out it would not install my NVIDIA driver even though the headers were all install it said they were not. Although I manage to disable SELinux at the Kernel level it was very irritating that Fedora integrated it so deeply. The also use the latest Gnome desktop/ Gnome Display Manager (GDM) which is now non configurable, except the background. Which Fedora claims that the GDM configuration tool is being redesigned, which is still being worked on apparently since Fedora 11 is still using the GDM from Fedora 9.
These frustrations & because Dell was distributing systems preloaded with Ubuntu I gave into the suggestions to try Ubuntu. I never really though much of because it was just the latest in Debian spin-offs that had gained a lot of popularity. I used it for a couple of generations & it was OK for the most part. I had a lot of trouble getting a desktop that I became familiar with & learned to love was called Enlightenment (E17) going. Even with the easy_E17.sh script which downloads & installs everything for you, when I attempted to login to it , it would just log me back out.
So I started looking around again. I have come over two other distributions that have caught my eye. One called OpenGEU and the other was Elive. they caught my eye because the focused on Enlightenment (E17) as the default desktop environment and was pushing some special effects that I saw emerging in Fedora called Compiz Fusion. I recall a long time ago then Compiz Fusion was just getting started I had posted queriwes on the Enlightnment mailing list about how to get compiz working in the Enlightenment environment, which I was told was impossible.
Well I downloaded the Live Cd ISOs for both OpenGeU & Elive. OpenGEU was quite nice especially since it is built around the Ubuntu flavor of Debian, but however the package that gives the Compiz effects Ecomorph (Compiz port for Enlightenment) did not seem to be apparent active on the OpenGEU Live CD. But when I tried the Elive Live CD it was so impressive that I now have Elive on both of my systems. Elive is not a Ubuntu flavor but is based on Debian itself. I have not been so excited since I first started using Linux!
I would highly recomend at least trying the Elive + Compiz Live CD.
here is the web page:
Now as with most distributions there is ample Welsh language support, but Enlintenment seems to have some support for the welsh language, though not completely. Which brings me to what happened to the Cymrux distrobution? In 2003 Kevin Donnelly started tranlating & compiling a Welsh localized version of Linux. Her is the article:
which led to a Live CD called Cymrux:
which is also tied to this site:
When you click on "start translating" you get the message "Kyfieithu is no longer active". The Live CD for Cymrux is not available for download anywhere that I can see. I hope Kevin can continue his work on it soon.
Any way, what are your impressions of the different distributions available?

Comment by Ceri Shaw on June 26, 2009 at 1:03pm

Cheers ....I'll go take a look....I guess its about time I did something with that group....problem being there just isnt a whole lot of time left over after Americymru...btw were on at 3 (PST ) right? Ive sorted the procedure for conference calling. ( hold down Ctrl select and click ) BUT Ive forgotten the lesson Im supposed to be doing. Which site is it on?

Comment by Mark Powell on June 26, 2009 at 12:50pm

Ceri,
I actually posted some material on your other social network, "Jolly Penguin". Apache and sendmail stuff.

Comment by Ceri Shaw on September 1, 2008 at 8:25pm

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