In my recent column “Security Features in Ubuntu” (LJ, March 2008), I mentioned that the live CD method of running Linux from a CD-ROM or DVD rather than directly from a hard drive has important and ...

Thousands of secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open-source software when they return to school in September. The project, which has been ...

Many secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open source software when they return to school in September. The project, which has been funded ...

Windows only: MobaLiveCD, a free, stand-alone emulation tool, lets you run Linux live CDs from a window inside Windows, without any hard drive installation whatsoever. Based on the open-source QEMU ...

So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually get it installed? Here, we'll show you how to create a live CD or USB drive, boot into ...

Yesterday I went through various distributions and architectures for a Linux installation, focusing in particular on OpenSUSE. Before we go through the actual installation of OpenSUSE (and Linux in ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>With Linux you don't really need "burn proof".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>then why does cdrecord support it?<P>i have yet to see ...

In today's open source roundup: Linux might be the best solution for those worried about privacy issues in Windows 10. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Neptune 4.4. And the Debian Project finally dumps CDs ...

The past couple months, I've been showing how to create your very own customized Ubuntu live CD. In “Customizing Linux Live CDs, Part I” (LJ, May 2008), I provided a basic procedure for mounting an ...