“In order to make the ISO fit on a single 700 MB CD, the Emacs,
K3B and Scribus applications had to be removed. Still, these can
easily be installed through the “yum install” command, even while
running the Live environment.“CentOS 5.3 Live CD can be successfully used as a powerful
workstation, by having the following applications included:
OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 office productivity suite, Mozilla Firefox
3.0.6 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird E-mail client, Pidgin 2.5.5
instant messaging client, XChat 2.6.6 IRC client or GIMP (Gnu Image
Manipulation Program) 2.2.13.”
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