*nix LiveCD recommendations?

[rotjong]

It's been years since I seriously ran a *nix on any of my computers. I'd like to experiment with different flavours via LiveCD and I'd like recommendations.

I've tried a few LiveCDs already.

1. Mandrake - Seemed alright but a bit heavy during boot. Things seemed a little slow with all the disc access [CD-ROM].
2. Knoppix - Seemed to boot fast and run speedily.
3. Slax - I remember nothing about it but I have it somewhere.
4. Gentoo - Booted up nice and fast but I didn't spend much time with it.
5. Ubuntu - Seemed to take forever to boot.

Any other suggestions? I would like a LiveCD that is more recent in terms of the software on it but I would also like stability and fairly fast boot.

My goal is to experiment with different releases and then pick the one I find most appealing to install on one of my systems. I definitely want a graphical desktop [KDE is preferred].

rotjong

 

[onimkron]

I use Beatrix, all I'm pretty much doing is using the Terminal to test shell scripts for my course. It does the job, and is pretty fast too

 

[rotjong]

I use Beatrix, all I'm pretty much doing is using the Terminal to test shell scripts for my course. It does the job, and is pretty fast too

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

rotjong