http://www.osnews.com/story/9186/The_Five_Gifts_of_Christmas Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:57:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? While not a watershed technological advancement, Mandrake Move sounds interesting. Who carries a Live CD with him/herself everywhere, though? Good idea, but I don't think there's any market for them at USD 32.90. Also, how is this REALLY different from any other Live CD, except for maybe design focus? Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Why not a Christmas tree for an icon? :-) Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Well Zambizzi, I kind of agree with you on why a pumpkin. If you look up the catagory in osnews you will find that the pumpkin relates to the "Humor" section. So, why humor. Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 3 of 5 links point to Radtech's website. Interesting. Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? yeah, what's up with the pumpkin? Come on David, break out the gimp or steal a christmas tree from somewhere.

Or maybe the PC nazis have banned christmas from OSNews Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? To answer Dave, no, RadTech did not provide any financial support for this post nor are they a sponsor of OfB at all. Only two of the links should have gone there, the other was accidental -- I'm not sure how it ended up there.

I agree that a Christmas tree would be nice -- perhaps a whole Holiday category. Humor seems rather like an odd topic, although then again, this post didn't fit any particular category all that well. Maybe that has something to do with it. Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I didn't know what icon to use. I guess we need a human interest/topical icon. Or at least a new humor icon. I'll work on it. Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Well, you could have a pumpkin under a Christmas tree. :-) Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I carry a bootable CD, but just for fun.
My data is WAY too big to fit into a USB keychain storage drive. Sure documents, spreadsheets, bookmarks, are OK and fit fine, but what about my MP3s, and larger documents.

The second thing is that live CDs are sloooooow. I've tried several distros (various KNOPPIX based distros, KNOPPIX itself, SLAX, and much more), but I've always been left needing more. IF you have a linux system at home which you can mirror on a CD and take it with you for those few times that you are on the road, then OK, but a fully featured system running off a CD at home and on the road, that is just not worth it.

I carry a recovery CD and a fully featured CD with me for repair/maintenance purposes as well (work related) and KNOPPIX (just for phun :-) ) Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments