Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LiveCD distro reputation good device detection
On Monday 20 July 2009 23:05:47 James Ashburner wrote: > trotter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I work in a computer workshop and often get PCs in with weird windows
> > install problems.
> >
> > I was thinking if someone could suggest a LiveCD distribution that has a
> > good reputation for a wide range of device detection. Then i would have a
> > cd that could
> > proove that the hardware was working and it was likely to be a driver or
> > other software problem.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Feel free to suggest something that works better on laptops than desktops
> > and vice versa since latops are custom build in comparison to off the
> > shelf desktop parts.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martin N
> >
> >
> > Owner of the bwfc yahoogroup and Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and
> > amithlonopen yahoo groups.
>
> PCLinuxOS would be my choice, though I'm sure plenty here will suggest
> Ubuntu :)
And then there is Knoppix..... And Puppy....
PCLOS, Knoppix and Puppy are the ones I find myself actually using for that
type of purpose. Puppy is good for comparatively low-resourced computers.
But if I am only taking one with me, that one is Knoppix. :-)
