On Thursday, March 25, 2004 05:03 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Novell really need to give credit to the Knoppix guy for
> coming up with the LiveCD idea.
 
Hardly.

RedHat's original distribution CD was bootable and would run "live".  They 
later split "Live Linux" off to a separate CD around 5.2. I think the 
earliest RH CD I have is the first one that wouldn't run "Live".

Recently (within the last 12 months) most of the major distros, starting I 
think with Mandrake, started doing Live CD's as demos.  Whether this was 
inspired by Knoppix and it's clones, or whether they are just a more 
weed-like offshoot of the commercial demos I don't know, but they certainly 
didn't invent it.

Mind you, they have gone a long way toward showing us what a "Live CD" can be 
and do.