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| 2 | | = What is a LiveCD ? = |
| 3 | | |
| 4 | | From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-CD Wikipedia]:: |
| 5 | | A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable |
| 6 | | computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they |
| 7 | | have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system |
| 8 | | on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive. |
| 9 | | |
| 10 | | = SoCLib's Live-CD = |
| 11 | | |
| 12 | | On the SoCLib Live-CD, you'll find: |
| 13 | | * a bootable Linux system |
| 14 | | * a complete working SoCLib with its dependencies (SystemC, SystemCASS, SDL, ...) |
| 15 | | * cross-compilers |
| 16 | | * a video tutorial, explaining how to build a hello-world platform from scratch |
| 17 | | * example platforms, with full netlists and embedded software source: |
| 18 | | * platforms from the tutorial |
| 19 | | * a simple platform involving interrupt handling, with 1 or 4 processors |
| 20 | | * a parallel Motion-JPEG decoder using [wiki:Tools/Dsx DSX] |
| 21 | | * a simple [http://www.lua.org lua] shell under [wiki:Tools/Mutekh MutekH] |
| 22 | | * an H264 decoder |
| 23 | | * a TLM-T simulator running the famous DOOM game under [wiki:Tools/Mutekh MutekH] |
| 24 | | |
| 25 | | = Get your copy = |
| 26 | | |
| 27 | | You can simply [wiki:GetAccount get an account] if not already done, then download [http://www.soclib.fr/livecd/soclib-livecd-2009_04_22.iso the ISO file]. |
| 28 | | |
| 29 | | = Use the image = |
| 30 | | |
| 31 | | You can either: |
| 32 | | * burn it on a CD, and boot a computer from the CD, |
| 33 | | * Run [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox], [http://www.vmware.com/ VMWare], QEMU or other virtualization software; and boot straight from the image, without burning it. |
| | 1 | The Live-cd got deprecated in favor of a virtual machine appliance, see [https://www.soclib.fr/appliance/]. |
