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A Debian Live system is a Debian operating system that does not require a classical installer to use it. It comes on various media, including CD-ROM, USB sticks, or via netboot. Why Debian Live?

Although the Debian Live project is about the framework to create your own customized Live system, we offer some prebuilt images. Currently, builds for three desktop environments (GNOME, KDE and Xfce) as well as the standard system are available.


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News

2008-08-27: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. [...]

2008-04-10: live.debian.net scheduled downtime

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:00 +0200, live.debian.net will be down for about half an hour. [...]

2007-11-01: KDE4 beta4 Live CD

Debian Qt/KDE Team use our framework to create a KDE4 beta4 Live CD. [...]

2007-07-09: Debian Live Web Boot

Added support for booting directly from network. [...]

2007-05-24: casper is dead, long lives live-initramfs

Forked casper. [...]

2007-04-30: live-initramfs in unstable

Uploaded first live-initramfs to Debian unstable. [...]

2007-04-26: New website design

Pimp your webpage. [...]

2007-04-19: Google Summer of Code 2007

"GUI for live-helper" project granted. [...]

2007-03-14: live-package is dead, long lives live-helper

Rewritten and modularized live-package. [...]

2007-03-12: live-helper in unstable

Uploaded first live-helper to Debian unstable. [...]

2007-02-17: Debian Live Encryption

Added support for encrypted live filesystem. [...]

2007-02-10: Debian Live USB

Added support for USB image generation. [...]

2007-02-05: Debian Live Autobuild

Setup image autobuild server. [...]

2006-07-17: live-package in unstable

Uploaded first live-package to Debian unstable. [...]

2006-06-02: Debian Live NET

Added support for netboot image generation. [...]

2006-03-16: Debian Live ISO

Added support for ISO image generation. [...]

2006-02-28: Debian Live Resources

Setup project resources. [...]

2006-02-14: Debian Initiative

Project announcement. [...]