[CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

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The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of

the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD.

 

This CD is based on our CentOS-5.3 i386 distribution.

 

It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:

 

# openoffice.org 2.3.0

# firefox 3.0.6

# thunderbird 2.0.0.18

# pidgin 2.5.5

# xchat 2.6.6

# gimp 2.2.13

 

It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:

 

# memtest86+-1.65

# Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools

# Nmap and NMapFE

# traceroute

# samba-3.0.33 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares

# System Log Viewer

# GUI Hardware Device Manager

 

The following packages were removed to reach the 700MB target. You can

install them back using the 'yum install' command while running under

the LiveCD environment:

 

# emacs

# k3b

# scribus

 

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The CentOS Live CD project home page is here:

https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/

 

Live CD build scripts, screenshots, booting from a USB key, custom Live

CD Creation and other information is available there.

 

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The CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD is based on the Fedora livecd-tools project:

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

 

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You can get the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

 

* Filename: CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso

* Size: 691MB

* MD5Sum: 54bc01353cc67c4ddfaa7f1bc3b75c0e

* SHA1Sum: 4d01884a67d585b9431336a6db39f7ec66dddc47

 

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Release Notes:

 

LiveCD Release Notes:

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.3

 

CentOS-5.3 Release Notes:

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.3

 

upstream Release Notes here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/index.html

 

CentOS-5 Documentation is here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/

 

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The CentOS Project would like to thank Patrice Guay for the creation of

this CD. Patrice heads the CentOS-5/LiveCD project and has contributed

much time and efforts into creating and working with the liveCD's on

CentOS-5.

 

We would also like to thank the CentOS QA team for testing this LiveCD

and their many suggestions to make it better.

 

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Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/