Linux.com: Review: Tao Live CD

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 21, 2005

“Tao Live CD is a live CD based on rebuilt Red Hat Linux source
RPMs. It features a useful selection of applications, has good
hardware detection, and is even quick to boot. While I did run into
a few problems, I found this a very worthwhile distro.

“Tao and I got off to a good start. As it happened, the first
day I saw Tao on DistroWatch one of my instructors at university
expected us to bring in a SUSE live CD for our GNU/Linux course. I
brought in the requisite SUSE CD, but I downloaded and used a Tao
live CD instead. My fellow students started to complain about SUSE
when I was already at the desktop and they were still only halfway
through the loading screen…”

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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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