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52 | august 2008 www.linuxjournal.com
A SYSADMIN’S
SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Billix
Turn that spare USB stick into
a sysadmin’s dream with Billix.
BILL CHILDERS
Does anyone remember Linuxcare? Founded in 1998,
Linuxcare was a company that provided support services
for Linux users in corporate environments. I remember
seeing Linuxcare at the first ever LinuxWorld conference
in San Jose, and the thing I took away from that
LinuxWorld was the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card
(BBC). The BBC was a 50MB cut-down Linux distribution
that fit on a business-card-size compact disc. I used that
distribution to recover and repair quite a few machines,
until the advent of Knoppix. I always loved the portability
of that little CD though, and I missed it greatly until
I stumbled across Damn Small Linux (DSL) one day.
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