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Updated section on LiveCDs.

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@@ -117,20 +117,29 @@ Technical deficiencies of Windows.
Live booting is lacking.
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Windows LiveCDs, `though they`_ `do exist`_,
Windows LiveCDs, `though they do exist`_,
are hampered by licensing restrictions and technical limitations.
.. _though they do exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment
For example, `until Windows 8`_, desktop versions of Windows could not boot from a USB.
(And while running a live USB of Windows 8, it is still not possible mount internal hard disks.)
The BartPE LiveCD building program is 3rd party software that will run on any version of Windows,
.. _until Windows 8: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833.aspx
The `BartPE LiveCD building program`_ is 3rd party software that will run on any version of Windows,
but it is `only able to make`_ a LiveCD for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.
.. _though they: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE
.. _do exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment
.. _until Windows 8: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833.aspx
.. _BartPE LiveCD building program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE
.. _only able to make: http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22258
There is also the `WinBuilder`_ project,
which is the closest to a fully-functional LiveCD of modern Windows versions,
but installing software and drivers is still `sometimes a challenge`_.
.. _WinBuilder: http://winbuilder.net/
.. _sometimes a challenge: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/winbuilder-win7pe-se-tutorial
The absence of fully functional live versions of Windows makes it difficult to use for, e.g,
determining if a bug is due to hardware or software problems,
recovering data from a machine with filesystem corruption or bad disk sectors,
@@ -153,6 +162,12 @@ There's no reason you can't mount an internal or external drive to store files,
.. _Puppy Linux: http://puppylinux.org/
.. _running from a RAM disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM
Very little hardware comes a `desktop version of Linux pre-installed`_,
so live versions of Linux tend to work very well,
since that is the most common method of installing it.
.. _desktop version of Linux pre-installed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPre-installed
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