[ale] Good text based live system

[Courtney Thomas]

Jay,

What'll the advertised $30 "PC" CD do that can't be done with the ~180MB 
Slax CD ?

Appreciatively,

Courtney



Jay Loden wrote:
> Try Slax: http://slax.linux-live.org 
> 
> Assuming the new version hasn't changed, Slax boots to a command prompt, and 
> then you can optionally launch a GUI from there.I used to use it all the time 
> to fix/rescue Windows computers.It's also only ~180mb so it's quick to 
> download.
> 
> -Jay
> 
> On Friday 03 February 2006 07:08 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>>I'm looking for a good text based (CLI) live CD.  I've got ubuntu but I
>>do not see a way to tell it to not run X.  Starting X takes too long and
>>I just need to get to a command prompt so I can do some nice things.
>>
> 
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