Contents of the Live CD
The sidux-CD holds a variety of different programs and tools that cover almost any need of a desktop-user in everyday life.
KDE The graphical user-desktop that, enables you at a click of a button, to access programs/applications like Koffice word processing, spreadsheets, slide presentations, amarok music/mp3, GIMP digital photo viewing and manipulation, Quanta for web editing and creation , and thats just the beginning.
For the Internet surfing Iceweasel one of the worlds foremost web browsers, and secondly konqueror as alternate web broser with an extra kick: it has an FTP client and ssh (fish) built in: very rare in web browsing world
For Networking and the Internet connecting there is ndiswrapper along with wpa/wlan and see our internal WIFI documentaion.
You may need interconnectivity to other computers not just over a LAN but across the world and across multiple operating systems meet samba.
You wish to partition a hard drive, we have provided GParted and also cfdisk and gparted also now has an ntfs resize facility!
Need to email someone and want to have a fully functional address book? IceDove Mail/News Client a leader in its class of email clients however you wish to save it, well "persistant $HOME to your rescue!
Alternative window managers on the Live-Cd are flubox To activate the alternative window managers at bootup time, add fluxbox to the grub screen bootline
Unionfs support (with unionfs cheat) to enable use of persistent $home directories (if set up) or to install additional applications whilst in live mode:
su fix-unionfs
Diagnostic Applications
For diagnostics of a PC/Laptop applications like TBA
Memory diagnostic tools like Memtest86+ -Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
Data Recovery Applications
For Data recovery tools such as TBA,
Server Tools
client side packages like cifs
Core OS
GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode in the extra menu of the boot loader
Kernel 2.6.20
ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off and nodma respectively in grub bootline)
i686 optimisation - not for use with older CPUs!
192 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended