The release candidate for Ubuntu 7.10 has been released. "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user. The final stable version will be released in October 2007."
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Knoppix was indeed installable, but that didn't lead to a very stable installation. Kanotix, a Knoppix deriviate focussed on installation, should imho qualify as the first properly installable livecd. There was of course a lot of cooparation between kanotix/knoppix, and I think the installation tools and stuff from kanotix got merged back in knoppix, so it is properly installable nowadays.
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I think people are forgetting about Ark Linux and Corel Linux who also offered one cd installs with best of breed either around the same time or before...
Does it really matter who was first?
To me the beauty of open sourceGPL is no matter who goes first we all reap the benefits! Well that and the knowledge that with Open SourceGPL you know there's a good chance anything good is likely to survive or be resurrectable... How many closed source projects or OSes have managed to come back from the dead?
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The first major distro to do this (a single CD hybrid live / install edition) was Mepis. The second was Mandriva (with One). The third, AFAIK, was Ubuntu.