The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD.
This CD is based on our CentOS-5.3 i386 distribution.
It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:
# openoffice.org 2.3.0 # firefox 3.0.6 # thunderbird 2.0.0.18 # pidgin 2.5.5 # xchat 2.6.6 # gimp 2.2.13
It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:
# memtest86+-1.65 # Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools # Nmap and NMapFE # traceroute # samba-3.0.33 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares # System Log Viewer # GUI Hardware Device Manager
The following packages were removed to reach the 700MB target. You can install them back using the 'yum install' command while running under the LiveCD environment:
# emacs # k3b # scribus
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The CentOS Live CD project home page is here: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/
Live CD build scripts, screenshots, booting from a USB key, custom Live CD Creation and other information is available there.
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The CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD is based on the Fedora livecd-tools project:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD
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You can get the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/
* Filename: CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso * Size: 691MB * MD5Sum: 54bc01353cc67c4ddfaa7f1bc3b75c0e * SHA1Sum: 4d01884a67d585b9431336a6db39f7ec66dddc47
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Release Notes:
LiveCD Release Notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.3
CentOS-5.3 Release Notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.3
upstream Release Notes here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/index.html
CentOS-5 Documentation is here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/
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The CentOS Project would like to thank Patrice Guay for the creation of this CD. Patrice heads the CentOS-5/LiveCD project and has contributed much time and efforts into creating and working with the liveCD's on CentOS-5.
We would also like to thank the CentOS QA team for testing this LiveCD and their many suggestions to make it better.
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To stay current with CentOS:
Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/
Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Catch the Wiki at http://wiki.centos.org
Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos-devel
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And finally, we are looking at a major upgrade for the next release of the CentOS 5 LiveCD, and are taking on ideas, suggestions and code contributions for this. If you have any ideas, do come and talk to us!
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Enjoy,
The CentOS Development Team
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Karanbir Singh