For those of you addicted to the many live Linux CD's this is sure to please.  Live Linux CD's allow you to run a Linux distribution from your CD rom drive without installing it.  They are great for running diagnostics on windows machines as well.

List of Live CDs

The purpose of this page is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-search list of all available Linux-based Live CDs.

Key:

Desktops: provides a working GUI desktop environment with a collection of desktop programs, such as browsers and text editors. Many also include utilities for other purposes, such as home entertainment, but are only listed here because the additional functions are not their primary focus.

OS Replacement: provides an option to transfer the cd to the hard drive

Education: provides a collection of educational programs, or was created to be used in the educational field

Rescue: provides tools needed for data recovery

Clustering: provides tools for making clusters

Security: contains network security tools

Home Entertainment: geared towards playing video and audio

Gaming: video games!

Non-English: distributions with homepages in foreign languages

Geographically Specific: distribution created for a specific geographic location

Medical: contains medical programs

Power PC: built for Macs

Diagnostics: contains utilities for testing hardware

Firewalls: distributions created to be used as firewalls

Forensics: distributions containing forensic tools

Servers: distributions used for various server functions

* The ISO min size and ISO max size refer to distributions which have different size images of the current release. Examples are Gentoo and Mepis.

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