Finally I decided to try a few distro’s that I downloaded with Beldi.

1. Gentoo: Quite Small distribution. Did not configure my DHCP address and also did not start a X window also so did not try too much.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/gentoo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-204" title="gentoo" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gentoo-300x224.jpg" alt="gentoo" width="300" height="224" />

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2. Knoppix: Well known for its recovery functions, the Live CD does discover all the hardware and boots pretty nicely to the X windows directly with the ethernet configured.
   I specially liked the fact that the boot up to X window theme looked quite similar and the background did not change which is quite soothing. And no doubt the desktop background included by default is quite good.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/knoppix.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-207" title="knoppix" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/knoppix.jpg" alt="knoppix" width="192" height="144" />

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The applications installed by default is also quite interesting and largely covers the requirements for most of the users, I believe. Few scneenshots of the same.

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3. Linux Console:
   A Live CD with couple of games. Otherwise quite small distribution.

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