It was created by Roberto Di Cosmo, Vincent Balat and Jean-Vincent Loddo, in 1998.
[1][additional citation(s) needed] The DemoLinux CD was created to make it possible to use Linux without having to install it on the hard disk.
[2][3] It was the first Linux Live CD that made it possible to use the system in graphic mode and without any stage of configuration.
DemoLinux offered the user hundreds of applications (among them KDE and StarOffice), owing to using to a compressed file system.
DemoLinux thus provided a very simple installation procedure for Debian and became a forerunner of later Linux distributions.