Hi :) It's a classic "reinventing the wheel". Customised "LiveCds" have the same functionality except the reinvention appears to have stripped out anything useful and then put back only 1 or 2 things you might need.
Almost every distro nowadays has a "LiveCd" session that you can run either from a special Cd/Dvd or from the installer Cd/Dvd. Typically a LiveCd (or Dvd) has a full range of useful programs rather than just 1 or 2. The bit at the end of the article made me laugh. LiveCds are not noted for their speed. Cd/Dvd drives typically run about 1,000 times slower than a hard-drive. Typically they mitigate against that by loading as much as possible into Ram, assuming the machine has enough Ram. Some distros are so stripped down that they can entirely run from Ram and after booting the LiveCd you can take the Cd out. That's one reason i like SliTaz (a French distro) and Trinity Rescue Kit (although that is 'just' for repairing broken Windows and stuff (actually it does some other pretty cool things such as backups and networking things and stuff)) LiveUsbs are MUCH faster and they are easier if you want to have a "persistent image" that remembers settings and configurations from one session to the next. Of course using the persistent image slightly decreases the security aspect because it can remember stuff. Regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ----- > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 3:18 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] the Ultimate Safe Computing Environment or not > ;-) > > seems to have more cons than pros - > > http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/brilliant-tool-could-be-ultimate-safe-computing-environment.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmosbest+%28Gizmo%27s+Best-ever+Freeware%29 > > Just wondering what your thoughts were ;-) > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
