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I stumbled upon LAMPPIX today, a specialized bootable cd linux distro. It’s claim to fame is being able to drop your dynamic web demo (read only, I presume) into a folder and burn the image to disk. This way all the client has to do to demo your software is put the cd in, reboot, and voila, instademo.

I can see how this would be extremely useful in our projects at Matrix when working with groups in low connectivity areas like Africa. It could even be used for reference software, again in a place you’re on unfamiliar computers without connectivity. Sadly, it doesn’t look like it’ll work on PowerPC, a big minus since a lot of our travelers at work use powerbooks. Still, it’s simple enough for us to send someone away with x86 architecture…

Found out about LAMPPIX through Harry Fuecks, who is syndicated on PlanetPHP, a roll of php developer blogs.