Linked by David Adams on Wed 9th Mar 2005 16:47 UTC, submitted by Barry Kauler
As far as I am aware, this is a world first, a live-CD that saves back to the CD at the end of the session. So how does it work? "Boot the PC with the multi-session CD inserted in the CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy automatically knows which drive is the CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory are saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored."
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The PUPPY ISO is only 50 mb so it theoretically could be customized and expanded with additional apps.
Multi-session CDR's have a 99 track limitation. It should allow for up to 98 saves.
question:
what is the multi-session track limitation of a DVD-R?
I think this would be a great tool for truly TRYING OUT linux on a laptop or other system. You could try it out for a few days and really play with it--assuming you have enough RAM.
Also, the CD allows saving to the harddrive in 1 file instead of writing to the CDR every time.