Chet Gardiner writes:

> I seem to remember either RH or Mandrake 9 being able to boot

> from CD. Am I remembering wrong?

I don't know. Knoppix is the one I saw, and its based on Debian.=20

Really slick stuff. Imagine bundling your kiosk app on a=20

Knoppix OS CD and sending it off to your client. The CD is=20

preconfigured to detect the hardware of any modern computer,=20

boot up, start KDE, start your application, all from the CD.=20

Hard drive only used for swap space and temp files.

A great way to see the Linux desktop without committing to it.

http://www.knoppix.org, which is in German but there's a link to=20

convert to English.

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Paul McNett