• SystemRescueCd
    SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities
  • Feather linux
    Feather Linux is a Linux distribution based upon Knoppix 3.3, which can fit on a 50MB CD. It aims to have a wide range of desktop applications and to be relatively simple to use and set up. Its target market is anyone who wants a small Linux CD they can carry around, or for older machines.
  • Runt linux
    RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off of a 128MB USB pen drive.
  • Gnoppix
    Gnoppix is a linux live cd based upon Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). It can be compared to Knoppix but GNOPPIX uses GNOME as desktop environment.
  • Knoppix
    Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.
  • PClinuxOS
    PCLinuxOS is an english only live Knoppix style cd initially based on Mandrake 9.2 that runs entirely from a bootable CD. Data on the CD is uncompressed on the fly, allowing up to 2 GB worth of system and programs on one CD.
  • Damnsmall linux
    Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution
  • Morphix
    Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-cd support (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works... no harddisk-installation necessary
  • Puppy linux
    Puppy boots into a 48 - 54M ramdisk, and that's it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in his entirety loads into RAM.
  • RPM live linux
    RPM Live Linux CD is a 120MB RedHat-based distribution that runs completely from CD, fits into around 80MB of RAM and is nearly indistinguishable from a system installed on a hard disk. Features include hardware recognition at boot, samba, dhcpd, named, xinetd, and SSH servers, virtual terminals, PAM, etc. Useful for dedicated servers, routers, emergency systems, cluster nodes and such, it does not contain an X11 Server.

  • Flonix
    Flonix is a light-weight GNU/Linux Operating System for personal computers. It is based on Damn Small Linux. There are two editions: Flonix USB Edition can be installed on an USB flash drive or compact flash card (64MB and more) and Flonix CD Edition, which is a live CD.
  • Suse live-eval
    SUSE makes the live-eval version of SUSE LINUX available for download as an ISO image. This version runs entirely from the bootable CD and is not installed on the hard disk
  • MandrakeMove
    based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 that provides a complete personal desktop operating system on a bootable CD. Personal data and configuration settings may be stored on a dedicated USB Key.