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Clonezilla, here to stay, not fade away!*
Blog Running as a “Linux live CD” iso image just over 100 megabytes large, one method touted is to operate it on a USB drive pen. The best trick would be to host the iso in a separate partition on each of the systems you want to clone and have a way to...
[June 16, 2009, 10:03]
Crime, but no punishment for Microsoft
Talkback You can download the ISO images of Fedora Core for free. You can download the ISO images of Suse for free. Smithy, I have been using Linux for almost 10 years, and it is my duty to inform you that everything that you dribbled in your last rant is a...
[June 20, 2005, 10:34]
Dream Linux 3.5 - An Excellent New Release
Blog I got interested in the new release of Dream Linux (3.5) because it is supposed to make it easy to create your own customised ISO boot image. I thought that if I could get it set up and configured on the HP 2133, and then make an ISO of that, that...
[March 4, 2009, 13:56]
Dream Linux 3.5 - An Excellent New Release
Blog Comment I doubt at this point that I would make my own .iso of any of those, but I am likely to post detailed instructions for getting them installed and working, as I have already had a couple of requests for that.
[March 6, 2009, 8:18]
Letting in Linux review
Reviews For a small fee, Web sites such as Cheap ISO.com will burn installation discs of the Linux distribution of your choice. If you don't want to pay a penny for your Linux, insist on a distribution that's available for free download in ISO images.
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News After a very difficult and inconclusive meeting in ABNT (Brazilian Technical Standards Organization) office last Tuesday, the standards process director had to analyse the audio recording of all the meeting, review some facts, review again all 63...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
An Unexpected Aquarium Experience
Blog One point here that bears noting: I've gotten so used to Linux that I didn't bother to think about system performance issues when I installed the iso into the Virtual Box. I installed the Win7 iso straight from its file on the Win XP Pro system...
[January 11, 2009, 19:04]
Junkbox Print Server Update #1
Blog After that, I decided to use the text-mode install of the command line version of Xubuntu from a CDROM iso onto a 1 GB compact flash. So at this point I'm downloading the ISO of the server version of Ubuntu 8.1 to see if I can jam that onto a 1 or...
[April 20, 2009, 8:35]
Asus EEE can run translucent 3D compiz desktop and full Ubuntu
Talkback Using extlinux to convert a liveCD iso to bootable SD card Converting an ISO file to a bootable USB stick or a bootable Identify that you have syslinux or isolinux in your liveCD by opening the .ISO file in archive manager and checking that it has...
[September 21, 2009, 10:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So it takes me the best part of a further hour to download the alternative ISO, then squeeze it through the ad-hoc CD writing system and slap that into the Compaq. So this means I rediscover that XP has no ISO burning built in, but that this doesn...
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News Microsoft has been trying to fast track the specification through the certification process of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but it failed in its first attempt in September.
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment The ISO for the install on the server is a DVD image a little over 1.1GB. A second ISO of about 296 MB is a Windows bare metal restore disk that probably loads Windows PE (Pre-install Environment, fancy name for No-GUI Windows) and talks sweet to...
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog Comment I know that the ISO has some interesting features like a file named "Autorun.inf" which is there to enable compatibility for people that want to try Ubuntu from WITHIN Windows! If you are interested in Ubuntu, if you have the Live ISO/install disk...
[September 14, 2009, 9:30]
Free memory test
News Linux Memtest86 v3.0 Source and Binary PackagePre-Compiled Memtest86 v3.0 installable from Windows and DOSMemtest86 v3.0 ISO Image (zip)Memtest86 v3.0 ISO Image (gzip)Linux Memtest86 v2.9 Source and Binary PackagePre-Compiled Memtest86 v2.9...
[March 27, 2003, 11:23]
RunDNS
Downloads Written in ISO-standard C, it runs natively and effectively on your computer without any need of resource consuming interpreters like Java, Perl and PHP. RunDNS is a stand-alone Dynamic DNS client for Linux and UNIX based systems.
[November 8, 2005, 7:46]
SuSE's 64-bit Linux seeks unhappy Windows users
Talkback Their strategy of not being so forthcoming with free ISO, has made them not so popular with hobbyist like me but they've been coherent and have been very determined to sell their stuff, rather than buying exposure by giving it away.
[October 2, 2003, 10:48]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Or download the ISO for free. You can buy Linux for what, $50? Oh! And one more thing! The reason that no one mentions OSX has nothing to do with it's ability. It's because that's comparing apples to oranges.
[January 5, 2004, 22:03]
Home PCs need thinning out
Talkback You can run your PC from a USB key http://www.goosee.com/puppy/flash-puppy.htm .You can run your PC from a CD http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso
[December 9, 2004, 22:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What do you do with an ISO on Ubuntu? On Linux, though, I'm at sea. My life in Linux is a mixed pleasure. Strangely, the Web site for the Linux version might as well have all its documentation written in Linear B — what on earth do these people...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
Mandrake Linux desktop goes mobile
Talkback I've got a box of burned iso's that's growing by the day, the latest of which is running as I write this.the new MandrakeMove beta 'live' cd. As a complete newbie to Linux I've been amazed at the plethora (say what?
[December 5, 2003, 4:07]
