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dickinsd
27th January 2005, 01:55 AM
Does anyone know of any live distros that are 64bit distros?

just to clear the point;

you can get fedora in x86, 64bit & ppc versions

but to my knowledge something like knoppix is only available as a standard 32bit live version, and the same for the ubunto live distro.

Just wondering?

Thanks

Dave

Jman
6th February 2005, 05:02 AM
There's a knoppix 64 (http://www.applia.fr/contents/knoppix64.html) which is a remastered 3.4.

dickinsd
6th February 2005, 12:26 PM
cool thanx for the link

Dave

dickinsd
10th March 2005, 05:46 PM
Just to let anyone that maybe interested know...

Ubuntu 5.04 is due out v. soon

They have live CD's available for all platforms now, including AMD64 and IA-64, they also have live CD for your standard x86 processors. another new live version for ubuntu is the PPC version as well.

Get Live and install CD's from here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/hoary/

Dave

EDIT:


To see it all, you'll need to try the CD, but the highlights include:

* GNOME 2.10 -- Very fresh... Released yesterday!
* X.org 6.8.2
* Kickstart compatibility for automatic installations
* Several new desktop package-management tools to make it even
easier to stay up to date
* An ultra-fast boot process, with optimized init process and
special optimizations for the hotplug system
* Improved hardware support on a range of platforms -- laptops in
particular gain improved suspend/hibernation support and processor
frequency scaling
* Unified and improved hardware detection between the install and
live CDs, which gives us live CDs on powerpc and amd64 too
* A range of improvements related to internationalization,
translations, and different keyboard layouts, including a
new smart keyboard selector that guesses your keyboard based
on keypresses
* A load of new Ubuntu-specific documentation, thanks to the
hard work of our community documentation team
* Instant messaging, desktop publishing, office productivity,
with vorbis playback and Python 2.4 ready out of the box
* Enhancements to the hardware abstraction layer to provide you with
BIOS, CPU, memory and LSB data (infrastructure for the upcoming
hardware database)
* Enhanced proactive security due to privilege minimization of many
processes which previously ran as root. This work reduces the impact
of many potential security vulnerabilities.
* The very best of the 100% FREE / LIBRE application software world.
* Much, much more!