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A Debian Live system is a copy of [http://www.debian.org Debian] that can be booted directly from removable media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, USB keys) or from another computer over the network. This allows you to install Debian just once, and subsequently boot it on one or more different machines.

The development process defined the key technologies to implement the rootfs generation and the whole image generation (lh_build).

Key technologies adopted so far includes a Debian version?FootNote(Although they should diverge for a very few lines after ubuntu's not so frequents re-merges.) of now live-initramfs (["DebianLive/live-initramfs"]) from Ubuntu to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of readonly rootfs (squashfs, ext2 and plain directory?FootNote(Mainly used for netboot.)) made writable by a unions (unionfs) with a ramdisk or customizable writable fs.

Resources for information is http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ and to discuss are this wiki, the IRC channel #debian-live at oftc ( irc://irc.oftc.net/#debian-live/ ) and the mailing [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel list].

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