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Free Software Magazine: The Magic of Live CDs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 19, 2005

“A ‘Live CD’ is a bootable CD, which contains pre-configured
software, this allows the user to be productive without accessing
any other hard drives (unless the user wants to store
information).

“Why would anyone want to have to carry around a CD, rather than
having a desktop or laptop computer, which is fully installed and
ready to go…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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