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Well, the title is pretty much self-explanatory. I've seen Quantian, but it's pretty outdated, there's UberStudent... anything else worth mentioning? I'm especially interested in your experiences with Live CD/DVD's, regarding computational speed, usability and stuff like that. Links, advices, anything that you find useful is more than welcome!

Thanks!

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Scientific Linux: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=scientific

And this is a version of Scientific Linux that fit in one CD: http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/

What about making your own Ubuntu LiveCD?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

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  • Another thread on [How to make a live CD/DVD from your harddisk installation](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=688872) – Joshua Ulrich Nov 27 '10 at 00:02
  • Thanks for suggesting SL. I've left the custom build Live CD/DVD as my last alternative... Probably Ubuntu with Remastersys. – aL3xa Nov 27 '10 at 00:31
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I've booted Knoppix Math before and found it reasonably usable. I can't really say how well it's maintained, as it's been a little while.

EDIT: Cool, it looks like it's still being actively maintained!

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  • I wasn't aware of this one, thanks. It's poorly documented, though... at least for a non-Japanese... =) – aL3xa Nov 26 '10 at 23:52
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Here is another method for rolling your own Ubuntu liveCD: UCK (Ubunutu Customization Kit) along with a howto I found.

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    Thanks for suggestion, but I need custom-build Live Linux distro with R, not a tool for Linux customisation... I've combed down the Internets Googling for Linux customisation apps, this post seems quite useful: http://goo.gl/CpfOG Anyway... there's no need for custom Linux if there's already a good tool available! – aL3xa Nov 27 '10 at 02:09
  • Your post is confusing. The customization is that you can add default packages to the install cd. Thus you can add R and any other packages you need to the installer. – Joel Berger Nov 27 '10 at 02:25