Live CD Assignment Two

	Knoppix	Puppy Linux	Damn Small Linux (DSL)
Pur -pose	Knoppix can be used to back up files easily from hard drives with inaccessible operating systems. To quickly and more safely use Linux software the Live CD can be used instead of installing another OS.	Puppy Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution that is very small and focuses on ease of use. If the computer has at least 256 MB of RAM, the entire operating system and all the applications will run from RAM, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts.	Damn Small Linux or DSL is a free operating system for the x86 family of personal computers. It was desig -ned to run graphical applications on older PC hardware —for example, machines with 486/ early Pentium processors and very little memory.
Size	The size ranges from traditional Compact Disc (700 megabytes) edition and the DVD (4.7 gigabytes) "Maxi" edition	Puppy Linux ranges from 40 MB to 333 MB	DSL is a Live CD with a size of 50 MB.
Users	Knoppix is used by people who do not want to partition their disk for a new Linux OS and would like to have the Windows OS as well on their desktop and Knoppix leaves the desktop as it is once it has been unloaded.	Puppy Linux is used by people where the OS on the hard-drive fails and those people want to recover the data on the disk.	DSL was designed for users who use older machines and where the memory of usage is not high
Require -ments	Requirements to run Knoppix: Intel-compatible processor (i486 or later) 32 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products) Bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI) Standard SVGA- compatible graphics card Serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/ 2-compatible USB-mouse	Minimum requirements for Puppy Linux are: CPU : Pentium 166MMX RAM : 128 MB physical RAM for releases since version 1.0.2 or failing that a Linux swap file and/or swap partition is required for all included applications to run; 64 MB for releases previous to 1.0.2 Hard Drive : None CDROM : 20x and up	DSL supports only x86 PCs. The minimum system require -ments are a 486 processor and 8 MB of RAM. DSL has been demon -strated browsing the web with Dillo, running simple games and playing music on systems with a 486 processor and 16 MB of RAM.
Latest Version	Version: 5.3.1 Date Released: 2008-03-27	Version: 4.00 "Dingo" Date Released: 2008-05-04	Version: 4.4.6 Date Released: 2008-09-28