Mxsmanic wrote:
Floyd L. Davidson writes:
Most Linux distributions provide a "live DVD" which can
be used to demonstrate the OS, also as a installation
disk, and then also as a rescue disk.
Demonstrating and productively using are two different things. An operating
system being used for productive work is always writing to disk.
That is your imagination at work, but regardless it is
not pertinant to the question asked and the answer
provided.
Can it be done? Yes. Is it often done? Yes.
Any OS that cannot do that is abjectly insecure.
There's no correlation between being able to boot and run from read-only media
and security.
You are clueless.
If the boot device is an R/O device, there is no such
thing as compromising the booted OS. Think about it...
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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)