The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD. This CD is based on our CentOS-5.1 i386 distribution. It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software: # openoffice.org 2.0.4 # firefox 1.5.0.12 # thunderbird 1.5.0.12 # pidgin 2.0.2 # scribus 1.3.3.2 # xchat 2.6.6 # k3b 0.12.17 # 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 # QTParted # Nmap and NMapFE # traceroute # samba-3.0.25b with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares # System Log Viewer # GUI Hardware Device Manager ================================================================ 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. ================================================================ The CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD is based on the Fedora livecd-tools project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD ================================================================ You can get the CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/ * Filename: CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso * Size: 720766976 * MD5Sum: 32de2ac951b3f50144d833241eaf0100 * SHA1Sum: 0912d455d0192fe3823bcb17795d2e0186a47d43 ================================================================ Release Notes: LiveCD Release Notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.1 CentOS-5.1 Release Notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1 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/ ================================================================ The CentOS Project would like to thank Patrice Guay for the creation of this CD. Patrice did the Tao Linux live CDs in the past and also the CentOS-5.0 live CD and graciously donated his time and effort to make this one too. We would also like to thank the CentOS QA team for testing this LiveCD and their many suggestions to make it better ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ Thanks, The CentOS Development Team