Linux Live CDs reviewed (stay away if possible, if you are a Windows user)

[RayLopez99]

Quick update on what I tried last night.

1) Ubuntu LiveCD with my Greek setup (PPPoE) failed to find the
internet. As I've discussed in another thread, Greece uses PPPoE
which is not what is used mostly in the USA. Perhaps (I suspect)
Ubuntu failed for this reason.

2) Mint Live CD *did* find the internet, as before. I surfed the net
using Firefox, some free porn sites, and it worked fairly good. Not
as good as Windows XP, because it was running off the CD and with 2 GB
RAM seems to freeze up at times, and sometimes the sound did not
accompany the graphics, but overall, if Windows is A+ in grade, then
Mint Live CD is B+ Not bad.

3) Webconverger distro failed to boot. I did download it from the
official site.

4) This *could* be a coincidence, or maybe not: this morning I got
the very rare (but it has happened before, years ago) "CHKDSK" error
on bootup of XP on my Pentium IV. After about 10 minutes of checking,
and verifying everything is OK, it allowed me to boot into Windows and
here I am. Was this because of something the Linux Live CDs did? I
did not install any of them. If it was from the Linux CDs, it was
from either Ubuntu or WEbconverger, not from Mint Live CD which I have
been trying out all week with no problems.

At this point, if I had to choose a Linux distro, it would be Mint. I
also have tried "Puppy" and don't like the translucent look of it--
Mint's green colors are also better than the deep, dark purple theme
that seems to be Ubuntu.

But all in all, I'll stick to Windows XP--which just works for me.

Good luck to the rest of you. No COLA folks, I'm not trolling (for
the rest of you, COLA is a site where everybody, including myself, go
to troll on occasion, but this is not such an occasion).

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

4)  This *could* be a coincidence, or maybe not:  this morning I got
the very rare (but it has happened before, years ago) "CHKDSK" error
on bootup of XP on my Pentium IV.  After about 10 minutes of checking,
and verifying everything is OK, it allowed me to boot into Windows and
here I am.  Was this because of something the Linux Live CDs did?  I
did not install any of them.  If it was from the Linux CDs, it was
from either Ubuntu or WEbconverger, not from Mint Live CD which I have
been trying out all week with no problems.

One possibility: on one of the distros, maybe it was Ubuntu, I did
not log out properly: I simply pulled out the CD and did a hard
reboot with the power switch. I bet that these Linux Live CD distros
secretly write stuff temporarily to your hard drive (just making a
wild guess here), and if you don't shut down properly, you hard drive
is somewhat corrupted with this temporary data. Just a guess.

RL

 

[Peter Köhlmann]

One possibility: on one of the distros, maybe it was Ubuntu, I did
not log out properly: I simply pulled out the CD and did a hard
reboot with the power switch. I bet that these Linux Live CD distros
secretly write stuff temporarily to your hard drive (just making a
wild guess here), and if you don't shut down properly, you hard drive
is somewhat corrupted with this temporary data. Just a guess.

Idiot

And an apology to the real idiots out there, that they are compared with such
a shit-for-brains like RayLopez

 

[glee]

One possibility: on one of the distros, maybe it was Ubuntu, I did
not log out properly: I simply pulled out the CD and did a hard
reboot with the power switch. I bet that these Linux Live CD distros
secretly write stuff temporarily to your hard drive (just making a
wild guess here), and if you don't shut down properly, you hard drive
is somewhat corrupted with this temporary data. Just a guess.

Live CD's do not write anything to the hard drive, and removing one
because it won't finish logging out, and doing a shutdown/restart from
the computer power switch is harmless in that situation. If Chkdsk
autoran at Windows boot, it would be due to an unrelated file system
issue in Windows.

 

[TomB]

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]

Live CD's do not write anything to the hard drive, and removing one
because it won't finish logging out, and doing a shutdown/restart
from the computer power switch is harmless in that situation. If
Chkdsk autoran at Windows boot, it would be due to an unrelated file
system issue in Windows.

That's not entirely true. Mounted file systems can get marked 'dirty'
on powering off the system. So the above can happen.

 

[glee]

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]

Live CD's do not write anything to the hard drive, and removing one
because it won't finish logging out, and doing a shutdown/restart
from the computer power switch is harmless in that situation. If
Chkdsk autoran at Windows boot, it would be due to an unrelated file
system issue in Windows.

That's not entirely true. Mounted file systems can get marked 'dirty'
on powering off the system. So the above can happen.

(Resending with cross-posting restored.
I'm not sure why you set follow-up to just the one group. I and others
are not subscribed to that group, and will not see any replies because
of your action. The cross-posting was only 3 groups, not excessive, and
there's no reason to remove it mid-thread.)

I suppose that's true though I've never seen it when using a Linux Live
CD....I've had a number of them freeze, have ejected and hard started
with no auto-chkdsk run. Probably more than a dozen times, though
that's probably not a big enough sample.

 

[RayLopez99]

Live CD's do not write anything to the hard drive, and removing one
because it won't finish logging out, and doing a shutdown/restart from
the computer power switch is harmless in that situation.  If Chkdsk
autoran at Windows boot, it would be due to an unrelated file system
issue in Windows.

OK, thanks glee. Just reporting what happened. Like I said, it was a
'wild guess' on my part; that part of my post I was not sure about.

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

I suppose that's true though I've never seen it when using a Linux Live
CD....I've had a number of them freeze, have ejected and hard started
with no auto-chkdsk run.  Probably more than a dozen times, though
that's probably not a big enough sample.

In that case, we both stand corrected by TomB!

RL

 

[JeffM]

If Chkdsk autoran at Windows boot,
it would be due to an unrelated file system issue in Windows.

....and if the Webconverger distro failed to boot, it's likely because
the dim-bulb troll OP doesn't understand what an MD5 is
--much less actually having run that on the ISO.

 

[Alias]

I simply pulled out the CD and did a hard
reboot with the power switch.

It has nothing to do with Ubuntu, dumb ****. If you use the power switch
to shut down your computer, XP will *always* freak out and demand a chkdsk.

 

[Hot-Text]

Cut comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
For this is microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Add some More Ram a new Video Card, and new Monitors Then Ubuntu LiveCD
runs Good!

 

[RayLopez99]

...and if the Webconverger distro failed to boot, it's likely because
the dim-bulb troll OP doesn't understand what an MD5 is
--much less actually having run that on the ISO.

WTF you talking about? I burned it as an ISO isn't that what you're
supposed to do?

RL

 

[Peter Köhlmann]

We do not need your Linux BS at microsoft.public.windowsxp.general!
So stop posting it there!

He doesn't.

It is one of your lunatic own, RayLopez, who is crossposting his inane shite
all over usenet.

He is dumber than slightly retarded pond slime. In short, a typical windows
user who "thinks" (he can't really, rest assured) that he needs to crosspost
his idiocy to garner somehow magically some help in trolling

 

[Peter Köhlmann]

We do not need your Linux BS at microsoft.public.windowsxp.general!
So stop posting it there!

So you, as a typical wintendo luser, have not yet figured out that it is one
of your imbecile fellows (RayLopez) who is constantly crossposting his idiocy
all over usenet?

Why is that? Don't you have got the crucial one braincell more than him?

 

[bbgruff]

One possibility: on one of the distros, maybe it was Ubuntu, I did
not log out properly: I simply pulled out the CD and did a hard
reboot with the power switch. I bet that these Linux Live CD distros
secretly write stuff temporarily to your hard drive (just making a
wild guess here), and if you don't shut down properly, you hard drive
is somewhat corrupted with this temporary data. Just a guess.

I have a better theory.

I reckon that at some point while you have been playing about with CDs,
you've done a power-reset, either while Windows was up and running, or while
is was in the process of booting.
Next time you booted Windows, it found that it needed therefore to check the
disk.

"Never blame on (Linux) conspiracy what can be explained by (RayLopez99)
stupidity"!

 

[Chris Ahlstrom]

Hot-Text pulled this Usenet face plant:

We do not need your Linux BS at microsoft.public.windowsxp.general!
So stop posting it there!

Blame your Windows-loving friend, RayLopez99. He's the one who did that
first, in order to annoy you.

 

[Alias]

WTF you talking about? I burned it as an ISO isn't that what you're
supposed to do?

RL

Look up MD5SUM. Linux Mint gives it to you on the download web page. Now
you need to learn how to use it. Try Wikipedia or Google and enlighten
yourself.

 

[Hot-Text]

RayLopez his not yours

PeterKöhlmann I believe he a Kick out from 24hoursupport.helpdesk!

 

[Hot-Text]

PeterKöhlmann
Don't you have a brain cell at all, to know to not play the crossposting
games with hem!
And if you had Two more brain cell then I, You would not have Post this
Reply to me right!

 

[Hot-Text]

I will download ubuntu if you ask your daughter to suck my cock!

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