After reading about babeldisk the “safe” Linux distro, I thought I would have a play. Being a tightwad and happy with Ubuntu I decided not to sign up and buy a copy, but download the ISO image and have a look and see what it had on it.
I booted up the ISO using the magic that is qemu and kqemu (kernel accelerator).
$ qemu -cdrom Desktop/babeldisc_20070410.iso -m 512 -net nic -net user -boot d
The initial boot menu has an option for the “babel booster” which is a device you can buy from them which looks like it caches your data locally. I don’t have one so I booted using the second option – without the babel booster.
