Fastest booting Linux ditribution on a live-cd

Posted by Avindra Goolcharan on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Avindra Goolcharan
Published on 2010-12-13T21:33:12Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 11:35 UTC
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I'm looking for a linux distro with the following:

Boots quickly, as fast as possible.
Has expected tools such as file browser, a web browser, etc.
Doesn't need to have extraneous recovery stuff such as partition editors, and what not.

These are the tools I have and use already:

ophcrack
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win)
chntpw (Offline NT Password and Registry Editor)
Hiren's BootCD
gparted or Parted Magic
Ubuntu
nubuntu

Any and all suggestions are welcome :-) The primary objective is to get a quick booting linux distro that I can grab / delete / move / copy files with.

Currently, I prefer using ophcrack, it boots in (relatively) fast and I can manipulate files well. The one that takes the longest is ubuntu of course.

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