Running an application through Ubuntu

Christopher Lees christopher_lees at iprimus.com.au
Thu Jun 8 08:50:02 BST 2006


If you want to customise a Live-CD to run your own program(s), Ubuntu
probably isn't the ideal distro to use for that.

Dyne:bolic can be customised, but it requires quite a bit of Linux
skill, which you obviously don't currently have. (you need to compile a
kernel with SquashFS support, you need to know where all the bits of a
Linux program go, etc).

There are other customisable Live CD distros; I believe there's one
based on Knoppix; but I can't comment on how difficult that might be for
a new user to customise.

The other thing that springs to mind is Puppy Linux. When you shut down
Puppy, it burns the changes you've made (i.e. newly installed programs
and your home directory) back to the CD or DVD. Until they are burnt to
disc, they are kept solely in memory.




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