Dream the perfect computer system, then build it to run on a Linux live CD!

A Linux live CD is more than just a Linux system you carry around. Start with a live CD that has all your favorite applications. Include and play photo slideshows, presentations, Web content, and music collections. Incorporate your own designs, colors, and images to appear everywhere from the boot prompt to the desktop.

When you are done, you have a perfectly customized CD or DVD that can run on almost any PC that you can reboot. In Live Linux® CDs, bestselling Linux author Christopher Negus guides you through the free software tools and toys you need to try out and create specialized Linux live CDs for security, presentations, gaming, multimedia, firewalls, and clustering. It is the first start-to-finish guide to using, creating, building, and remastering your own live Linux distributions.

Working from live CD technology on the accompanying DVD, you can

• Boot and run live Linux versions of KNOPPIX, SLAX, Gentoo, Damn Small Linux, and other live CDs

• Burn and boot Linux live CD ISO images of Ubuntu, KNOPPIX, SLAX, MoviX, BackTrack, and more

• Build your own live CDs from instructions based on KNOPPIX (Debian), Fedora, Gentoo, Damn Small Linux, and SLAX

• Create multimedia players that are customized to include your own video or music

• Customize live CD rescue toolkits to analyze and repair data on compromised networks, Windows PCs, and Linux systems

• Configure personal firewalls to protect from Internet intruders

• Control the processing power of a group of computers, using live CD clusters

Whether you want to customize the perfect live Linux for your own use or distribute it to the world, Live Linux® CDs gives you all the knowledge, tools, and software you need.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 8 Ratings

Great book - 2007-03-16
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I recommend this book for those who want to learn not only how to make bootable linux cds/dvds, but to learn about linux as a system. It has nice tips abaout mini-distros. And it's good for fedora fans. Great book.

A must have book - 2009-08-23
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This is a must have book!
I wanted always to create my own Linux Live Cd but i didn't knew how to do it until i bought this book.This book explains in a very simple way how to build and customize a bootable Linux LIve cd, it starts basically with how to use live cds and then it explains how to make the exact live cd the user want.
After reading this book I can create a Live cd that can boot directly to a video or a slideshow presantation, I can add software that i need for my work , or for example I can create a live firewall live-cd or even much better I can create a cluster live cd for grid computing using all my computers.

Does what it says - 2008-01-18
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What more can you ask of a book than to give you what it says it will? If you want to create your own customized linux distribution or to tweak an existing one for a special purpose, then this is the book for you.

This is THE book on building custom Linux CDs - 2009-10-24
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I'm a newcomer to Linux. I need to build a Live CD that contains certain utilities. I browsed the web and found lots of stuff. Some of it was inarticulate. A lot of articles conflicted with other articles. Many were simply incomprehensible. Confusion reigned - and then I found "Live Linux CDs".

What a great book. Yes, it is compiled from many of the very same web articles I found. The difference is that Christopher Negus is very much a Linux pro and a good writer as well. So he has vastly clarified the language of the original "how to" articles, added a comparatively vast amount of information on how Linux and specifically Linux Live CDs work and put it between covers. The customization of several Linux distributions is covered. For good measure - and as an instructive exercise - Negus also examines several existing Live CDs. The examples are very informative.

Thanks to Negus and his clear, crisp writing style, the book is an easy read. By skipping the chapters on distros that I don't plan on using, I was through the book in a few hours. The best part is that I am looking forward to building my own Live CD. After reading Negus, I have no fear of the process because he has explained it so thoroughly. That is cool.

Jerry

Live Linux(R) CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables - 2007-04-10
Reviewer Rating:
Best!! Best!!....

Quick in time and superb in quality

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