Geek Central reported yesterday that a couple of private netizens have thrown together a 'Live Windows CD'.

Click the US/UK flag on the Knoppix site to get an english version of the page

Live CD's have been around for a while, but mostly relegated to the Linux domain. Knoppix is probably the best known Linux Live CD and is quite possibly responsible for converting more power users to Linux than any other software achievement to date (myself included).

It's called the BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) and...

"It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!"

I'm thinking a little downloading this weekend might be in order. How ironic would it be to Live boot my Linux laptop into Windows?

Yes...Imma geek.

If anyone tries or has tried the BartPE, please fill me in on your opinion.

Currently listening to: A drill
Currently reading: The Two Towers
Currently feeling: curious