Thursday, January 12, 2012

[LINUX_Newbies] Not all distros are LIVE distros

 

In order to stop muddying the thread that was swinging wildly off
topic, here's a new thread.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:20, g.linuxducks <g.linuxducks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Way off on a tangent there ? ? ? You stated only "some live distros have
> a demo mode." ..... I then replied ALL LIVE DISTROS ARE IN DEMO MODE
> WITH OPTIONS ALSO TO DO AN INSTALL. In other words the defintion of a
> Live Distro is DEMO MODE WITH OPTION TO INSTALL TOO.....

No, you said:

> All of Linux distros are "Live Distros" meaning they all pop in and run
> only the demo mode without installing anything

Scott replied:
> Not all. Most do, but not all. Or, their live version will be somewhat
> limited, just a demo.

To which you replied:
> That is what I said and what a "Live Distro" is - a DEMO mode
> presentation and is what is called a Live Distro CD in Linux world.

(Which, by the way, is NOT what you said, you said ALL Linux Distros
are Live ISOs)

dvdpst then restates what Scott said:

> Not all are live Distros

And you throw a wikipedia link at everone. So, from your own reference:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD

> Since 2003, the popularity of live CDs has increased substantially, partly due to Linux Live scripts and remastersys which made it very easy to build customized live systems. Most of the popular Linux distributions now include a
> live CD variant, which in some cases is also the preferred installation medium.

Note it says MOST distros, not ALL distros.

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