I am looking for a Live CD/DVD Linux Distro for testing hardware. I know someone who has a Windows Vista Laptop which has a possible hardware problem. He gets frequent BSOD's but cannot determine the cause of the BSOD's. I gave him Puppy Linux and he says that it has been running OK for more than a day. However, he has not been doing anything significant with Puppy Linux other than having it loaded in Memory as a Live CD. It would be nice if I could give him a Linux Live CD/DVD Distro to test out his system. Thank you.
www.distrowatch.com is probably your best bet. A wealth of info on just about any distro. Go explore and try what you think is the most suitable for your needs.
The top 100 is interesting, I only tested 10% so far. The next questions could be: What is the most comfortable, the one with the least bugs and/or the most secure? I found a bug in latest Kubuntu.
My experience tells me they all have bugs, it's just the nature of the beast... The best and most trouble free for me has been Ubuntu by far.
More important to note is that KDE 4 is new - really new- and still in active development - read beta. While it is stabilizing, it isn't considered stable.
It looks ok here, but you do see weird stuff happen at times. Nothing data destroying or crashes note.
I made a screen of Kubuntu 9.04 jockey crash: http://i42.tinypic.com/s2w4u1.png I totally agree. If someone knows the dev team here the report: Anwendung: Jockey (), Signal SIGSEGV 0x00007f090c34cd21 in nanosleep () from /lib/libc.so.6 Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f090d2e06f0 (LWP 6584)): [KCrash Handler] #5 0x00007f0909752784 in QWidget::metric () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #6 0x00007f09098cbbca in QFont::QFont () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #7 0x00007f0909714474 in QWidgetPrivate::updateFont () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #8 0x00007f09097143ac in QWidgetPrivate::resolveFont () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #9 0x00007f090971f238 in QWidget::setParent () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #10 0x00007f090971f642 in QWidget::setParent () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #11 0x00007f0909724df6 in QWidgetAction::releaseWidget () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #12 0x00007f0909af520f in QMenu::~QMenu () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #13 0x00007f09046d511b in KMenu::~KMenu () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 #14 0x00007f0904681fc3 in KSystemTrayIcon::~KSystemTrayIcon () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 #15 0x00007f0904dd098e in sipKSystemTrayIcon::~sipKSystemTrayIcon () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyKDE4/kdeui.so #16 0x00007f090bbfd191 in QObjectPrivate::deleteChildren () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #17 0x00007f0909716c72 in QWidget::~QWidget () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #18 0x00007f090a64c54e in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #19 0x00007f090a5f2d18 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #20 0x00007f090aa64376 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sip.so #21 0x0000000000469bd5 in ?? () #22 0x000000000044d0f3 in ?? () #23 0x0000000000469c6b in ?? () #24 0x000000000044b967 in ?? () #25 0x000000000044df0d in PyDict_SetItem () #26 0x000000000044fc31 in _PyModule_Clear () #27 0x00000000004b77d6 in PyImport_Cleanup () #28 0x00000000004c44ad in Py_Finalize () #29 0x00000000004c3f1a in ?? () #30 0x00000000004c411d in PyErr_PrintEx () #31 0x00000000004c4ec7 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags () #32 0x00000000004189ce in Py_Main () #33 0x00007f090c2c35a6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #34 0x0000000000417ae9 in _start ()
Submittal in the appropriate location would be best - https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Bugs/Reporting