Unannounced CentOS 5.3 LiveCD
While I thought that the only LiveCD based on RHEL 5.3 was Scientific Linux 5.3 LiveCD/LiveDVD, because CentOS only announced the 5.2 LiveCD on the mailing list, fact as that they actually released the CentOS 5.3 LiveCD on May 19!
The mirrors don’t contain the MD5 sum for the LiveCD, but you can find it in the wiki, where Patrice Guay has posted the CentOS LiveCD 5.3 Release Notes.
I’ll have to try it (better artwork than 5.2; maybe this time the kernel will support my internal mike). Why do the release notes say it contains Firefox 3.0.6, when it should have been Firefox 3.0.10? UPDATE: That’s because it indeed includes Firefox 3.0.6!
May 23, 2009 at 18:08
Thanks for the info and the link; though I already use it at work, I was very curious to download it und test it under qemu [from another linx] (the latest version : I therefore cannot know why it was rather slow to start, as qemu is inherently slow). It had no problems starting, but keymaps seem missing.
I suppose live CD-ROMs are (were?… no ARE) meant to show to qnyone, zith qny key;qp, how beautiful a linux is…. event those who do not have an IT connection (IT se(r)vice providers deserve to be boycotted) and have no QWERTY keyboard, perhaps they should learn some common sense and a little geography [and I noticed that CentOS does lack any GIS, though, with the pieces of software they provide, grass is very easy -every dependency exists in a binary form- to "compile"]….
May 24, 2009 at 17:33
@Chapeau : je ne te le tire pas…
One can select a French (among many others, even Belgian and Swiss) keymap without any difficulties and it can be unetbooted in without any problems (tested on a MSI wind and an eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeePC -advertize for stuck keys). The main problem my nephew saw was with the GIMP : as one has to configure it at any restart, and as the tiny screens are too rectangular, one does not see the two places one must choose between at the lowest part (and it is like a CD:VERY hard to modify)……
N….T….F….S portitions are not shown.
May 27, 2009 at 10:54
One week later, they finally announced the LiveCD:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-May/015944.html