BootCD is a tool for making CDs with Apple's operating system Mac OS X. Such CDs are called Live CDs.
The classic Mac OS was easily bootable from read-only media. Mac OS X is different. It is based on BSD UNIX and normally wants to have write access to certain locations. Also, it's quite large in size, which makes it more difficult to slim down to the size of a CD.
Charles Srstka has developed a program named BootCD to aid in creating bootable CDs for Mac OS X. It collects the needed parts of the OS to a burnable disk image file. As part of the creation process, the user may add whatever third-party applications he/she might want to run from the boot CD, such as a disk utility like DiskWarrior .
Windows is up today not bootable from CD because it needs a writable registry file. Bart PE omits this difficulty partly.
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