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Santa Barbara, CA., Nov. 7 -- FrozenTech, a company dedicated to providing LiveCDs on the highest quality media at reasonable prices, has introduced a new product – the ISO Loaded Hard Drive (ILHD). FrozenTech's ILHD immediately adds 246 Gigabytes of open source operating systems to any collection by distributing open source ISO files on consumer hard drives.

One of the most obvious differences between a LiveCD and an operating system installed on a hard drive is the time it takes for the system to start. LiveCDs have the disadvantage of all CDs, easily being 15 times slower in both transfer and access speeds than standard hard drives. Even with this huge variation in speed, the average LiveCD does not take 15 times longer to boot than the same software installed to a hard drive. This article will provide an overview of the boot speeds of nine popular LiveCDs in several different configurations.

Since last year's release, The LiveCD List has more than doubled to a total of 220 LiveCDs. Today an updated version of The LiveCD List is being released on its own domain name, LiveCDList.com. It includes not only Linux x86 and PPC LiveCDs, but also 9 other architectures, BSD, Windows, LiveDVDs, and it links directly to the projects' download pages.