Live CD

I have tried several Live CD:

• BackTrack beta-05022006
• FreeSBIE-unionfs-i386-20060210
• Xen-3.0-demo-livecd-3.0
• Kanotix-2005-04
• adios-4.15
• 3Anopix-20030704
  

The best one is BackTrack Live CD. I love all the pen-test it comes with. It was actually created by Whax and Auditor. Based on Whax, which also comes with tons of pen-test tools, BackTrack make security professional's life easier.

I ran the wireless tools with Kismet, where it has detail analysis of each AP around my house. Another nice touch is BackTrack comes with VM Player, where I can load my pre-build VM and start working from there, really convenient.

In addition, Xen 3.0 Demo Live CD is also another nice choice. On my T40 with 512MB RAM, I can only run 2 x 96MB CentOS 4.1 guest VM... Umm... why, I don't know yet, I bet Xen takes up twice as much. I am gonna search further information tomorrow.

FYI, Xen runs faster than VMware. (at least on my laptop)