Thank you for the detailed reasons behind this; makes me feel slightly smarter as to these 'glorified typewriters' ;-)
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 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 :) > > > > > > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > 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