Chapter 1. Starting Up with Live Linux CDs

Creating live Linux CDs involves more than just boot files and compression techniques. It’s about letting loose your own creativity to make available at all times the exact set of toys and tools you love to use. It’s about creating and displaying your presentation, music, video, and image content exactly as you want it.

This book is about live CDs that are built from Linux system technology and that draw on a pool of thousands of open-source software components available today. In this book, you learn how to find, use, customize, and remaster live Linux CDs—and even build them from scratch.

The DVD that comes with this book contains a handful of live Linux CDs that you can use separately from a single boot ...

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