Linux and Lucy

I love the song "Linus and Lucy" by Vince Giraldi from the original score "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Hence, the title of this post.

Anyway, as I said in the last post, I've been gaining interest in Linux. I was amazed to find out that pratically every distribution of Linux has a "Live" CD out now. For those that don't know, a Live CD let's you run Linux without actually installing anything. So it's a great way to try out different distros to find the one you really like or that works best for your setup. Only problem is that they run really s..l..o..w. Afterall, they are running completely off of the CD/DVD. I decided to try one on the Mac and the most recommended was Ubuntu. Plus, I really like saying "Ubuntu". (Hello, my name is Umwalla Umdulu and I am here for the Ubuntu Festival...). I digress. After burning the ISO image to cd, I gave it a try and low and behold....it didn't work. It was reading the cd but at the hardware detection point were it looks for the CD drives, it could not find them. So I goes to the Wiki!
There I learn that it is not a good idea to burn an ISO image at full speed. So I went back and burned another at 2x and walla! Linux on the Mac! First impressions- visually appealing (important to a Mac fan like me) and it seemingly found all of my hardware. I'll play around with it some more, but so far I like it a lot more than Knoppix. I'm going to try the Windows version on the laptop. It seems to be packed with apps. Here is a link to the different flavors of Live Linux if you are interested.
Yuletide Greetings,
b3nd3r