Free boot dvd software for linux

KBoot project is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. KBoot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted.
KBoot integrates the various components needed for a fully featured boot loader, and demonstrates their use. While the main focus is on basic technical functionality, KBoot can serve as a starting point for customized boot environments offering additional features.
Main features:
- supports most file systems and device drivers the Linux kernel supports
- transparent navigation in the file system of the booted system, including auto-mounting guided by /etc/fstab
- network configuration is either manual or with DHCP, including name resolution via /etc/hosts and DNS
- access to file systems via NFS
- access to files via HTTP, FTP, and TFTP
- inbound and outbound SSH (to and from the boot loader)
Enhancements:
New features:
- pressing Ctrl-C before the KBoot prompt is shown now starts an emergency shell (based on suggestions by Brent Baude)
- README: added a troubleshooting section explaining how to get a shell if things turn sour
Changes:
- upgraded to the 2.6.19.2 kernel
- upgraded to Busybox 1.3.1
- patches/busybox-noshadow.patch: fix Busybox build without shadow passwords (from PLD Linux)
- scripts/KBoot: start udhcpc with -n instead of --now, since the latter is no longer recognized
- upgraded to udev 104
- Makefile: recent versions of udev arent stripped, so we do this

SLAX Boot CD is used to boot SLAX from USB devices on computers which cant boot from USB directly. SLAX Boot CD can be also used to boot SLAX from ISO file on disk.
Enhancements:
- added KDE 3.5.4 with Slackware 11 fixes for media:/ URL in konqueror
- probeusb parameter now sleeps delay_use+1 seconds to wait for USB devices
- (this usually defaults to 6 seconds)
- fixed fuse libraries, which were missing in rc1 version
- added newest NTFS-3g beta version, NTFS writing now works, I hope

restore CD/DVD allows you to create a CD or DVD that can be used to backup whole hard disk partitions from any OS and restore them without user interaction.

restore CD/DVD can be used in a manner similar to vendor-provided rescue CDs included with new computers, but with all your own settings.

MultiLinux Live DVD contains a number of bootable live distributions, all available for selection from the initial GRUB boot menu.
The concept was originally started by a Spanish web site called Nautopia.net, which provided the build script. More recently, the Michoacan Free Software User Group has created a complete DVD image for download.
Main features:
- Knoppix - 4.02
- Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Flight CD 5
- Livux 2.0
- PCLinuxOS P92
- Simple-Mepis 3.4.3
- System Rescue CD - 0.2.17
- Puppy-1.0.8.1r1
- Elive-0.4.2
- Damn Small - 2.2b

The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a "GeeX", cause thats for the geeks you all are.
GeeXboX is a full operating system, livecd that can run on any machine and it is based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !!
At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting :
- MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...)
- MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...)
- RealMedia and Windows Media movies.
- OggMedia streams
- Matroska streams
- Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ...
GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) Youre lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies.
System requirements:
- Pentium-Class CPU or above (P2-400 should be quite enough)
- a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card.
- an ALSA compatible sound card.
- at least 64 MB of RAM
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
- Motherboard which supports booting on CD-ROM (should be ok for everyone
- Keyboard, Joystick or Remote Controller, using a Lirc-compatible IR (InfraRed) receiver (check http://www.lirc.org to build yours), e.g. Miro PcTVs one or ATI Remote Wonder.
Enhancements:
- GeeXboX 1.1. Although development never stopped, more than a year has passed without any new official GeeXboX release. This new one is a really good candidate for your HTPC multimedia distribution choice. It comes with an improved hardware support, providing dozens of new drivers (a lot of new WiFi controllers, DVB card chipsets and new remote controls). It also comes with a massively upgraded and more stable MPlayer, which features native decoding of various audio and video formats that used to be available through non-free Win32 DLLs only. Also, GeeXboX now has some decoding speed improvements and the OSD menu has been completely rewritten to provide a lot of new attractive features.

BUM - Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system.

With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity to handle thru complex links and permissions.

Boot-Up Manager has been tested on an Ubuntu 05.04 release, but as it only relies on Perl-Gtk2 libraries, it can be run on any Debian-like system.

Bioknoppix is a customized distribution of Knoppix Linux Live CD. With this distrubution you just boot from the CD and you have a fully functional Linux OS distribution with open source applications targeted for the molecular biologist. Beside using some RAM, Bioknoppix doesnt touch the host computer, being ideal for demonstrations, molecular biology students, workshops, etc.