Hive Five: Five Best Live CDs
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The following tools are unique compared to many of our software Hive Fives in that they are entirely independent of the main operating system installed on the computer. Live CDs load into the memory and allow you to use operating systems and accompanying tools without having to perform a permanent installation on the machine

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LiveAndroid, a LiveCD for Android running on x86 platforms Goal: To provide a LiveCD(and LiveUSB) for common X86 platform

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Live CDs as you know allow you to boot your computer from a CD-ROM and performs various functions on your system. Such Live CDs are excellent for recovering

LinuxLive USB Creator is a free and open source software for Windows that allows you to create a portable and bootable USB stick running Linux. It also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to launch directly this Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.

It also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to launch directly this Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.

I'm a free and open source software for Windows that allows you to create a portable and bootable USB stick running Linux. I also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to launch directly this Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.

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is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.

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Linux à vocation pédagogique, uniquement en ligne de commande.

OpenSolaris Project: Hadoop Live CD

OLPC OS for your USB drive.

Sugar Labs offers ubiquitous access to Sugar in a USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash memory drive (stick). The Sugar on a Stick project (still in Beta) gives children access to their Sugar on any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB). This small USB device can boot into the Sugar learning platform on different computers at home, at school, or at an after-school program, bypassing the software on the those computers. In fact, Sugar on a Stick will work even if the computer does not have a hard-drive. With Sugar on a Stick, the learning experience is the same on any computer: at school, at home, at the library, or an after-school center.

The creators of the previously mentioned, versatile CD/DVD burning tool CDBurnerXP have posted a guide in their forums to using the program to create a live-booting Windows XP (or 2000/2003) disc.

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Recover Data Like a Forensics Expert Using an Ubuntu Live CD

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PenDrive

Un BootCD pour faire ses backup. OpenSource !

Free bootable CD with easy menus to backup and restore an entire computer, including all programs, documents and settings. Simple disaster recovery from bare metal with point and click GUI. GPL open source.

GPLv3 license. full system backup/restore. (not storage)

A Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution targeted on analyzing malware.

REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part of this process, the analyst typically infects another laboratory system with the malware sample and directs potentially-malicious connections to the REMnux system that's listening on the appropriate ports.

REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser.

REMnux

A Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution targeted on analyzing malware.

REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part of this process, the analyst typically infects another laboratory system with the malware sample and directs potentially-malicious connections to the REMnux system that's listening on the appropriate ports.

. Based on Knoppix, WatchOCR uses

WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

Free OCR server for PDFs