PuppyOS Story

Nathan Howell nathan at atdot.ca
Wed Apr 12 22:41:43 BST 2006


Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op wo, 12-04-2006 te 16:17 +0800, schreef Senectus .:
>> On 4/12/06, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> Our live CDs have supported persistence since early January.
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence has some details on it.
>>> We're just in the process of getting the Xubuntu live CDs going so
>>> combining those should just work.
>> Correct me if I'm wrong here.. but this "persistence" concept copies
>> to "another" device... the concept I'm thinking of is burning it back
>> to the LiveCD you're working off...
>>
>> (using multimode burning I presume). 
> 
> Probably, but CD-RW & DVD±RW/RAM can only be rewritten so many times, so
> using them "as a hard disk" is not really a good idea IMHO...

AFAIK, Puppy doesn't need to use rewritable discs. It can burn your 
sessions to a disc until it's full, then burn itself and the latest data 
to a fresh disc.

Nathan




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