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check out

http://www.gnoppix.org/

for a gnome based live cd,
it's not from quite the same base as knoppix (they now seem to be working with Ubantu), but still pretty damn good

check out

http://www.gnoppix.org/

for a gnome based live cd,
it's not from quite the same base as knoppix (they now seem to be working with Ubantu), but still pretty damn good

check out

http://www.gnoppix.org/

for a gnome based live cd,
it's not from quite the same base as knoppix (they now seem to be working with Ubantu), but still pretty damn good

Yup, Ubuntu 5.04 (The Hoary hedgehog) will ship with 2.10 - Gnome is the default desktop and it's policy to synchronise releases.
If you can't wait till April, then you can get preview isos and preview live cds from the ubuntu site: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GettingUbuntu
Gnoppix is shipping a live cd beta based on Hoary, with 2.9.3: http://www.gnoppix.org/ available for *three* - count 'em - platforms: x86, AMD64 and PPC.

John

If you like Gnome more than KDE you should really try Gnoppix.

I've played with Knoppix before, and think it's just amazing.

Just over a year ago, I inhereted an old K6-2 450Mhz box with a dead hard drive. As I had an old monitor kicking around, and as I typically hate having guests use any of my workstations, I decided to remove the hard drive and set the system up as a dedicated Knoppix box.

I dutifully downloaded the ISO and burned a CD, only to find that the machine in question had an old CD-ROM drive incapable of reading 700MB discs. So I was SOL (and eventually found Gnoppix, which did fit onto a 650MB disc this machine could boot).

I can't imagine I've been the only person to run into this issue with Knoppix, so I wonder if this new "lite" version will be designed to work on 650MB discs (although admittedly I had a bit of a rough time even finding such discs to burn that Gnoppix CD oh so long ago).

(And yes, I suppose I could spend a bit of money and buy a new CD-ROM drive for the machine, but it was a freebie, and is supposed to be a guest machine, so it isn't as if I'm personally hurting by not putting any money into it ;) ).

Yaz.

The Gnoppix live-CD (based on Ubuntu) writes to NTFS out of the box (but like other posters have mentioned, it's not quite "safe").

I wouldn't switch, because I'm perfectly happy with GNOME running on a Linux kernel.

OSX is really pretty. But GNOME is pretty enough for me. I love the clean, tidy look, and the antialiased fonts. And I have chosen a desktop theme that I like.

OSX is really stable. So is GNOME.

If you want to try out GNOME, the best way is to install Ubuntu Linux on a spare computer. (It doesn't have to be a brand-new computer, but the older and funkier the computer is, the greater the chance of a problem.)

The easiest way to try out GNOME is to get a Gnoppix CD. You boot from this CD and it will run GNOME on a Linux kernel, without touching your hard disk in any way. So you don't risk your data. And by the way, this makes a great disaster recovery tool, even if you are a Windows user and you aren't ready to switch yet.

I'll bet there is someone writing a "KDE works for me" posting right now too. KDE is also a good environment, although I personally prefer GNOME. To try out KDE, you could get a Knoppix CD. This works the same way as Gnoppix (and in fact Gnoppix was derived from Knoppix, not the other way around).

In short, anyone who has already switched to a *NIX desktop (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, whatever) is unlikely to be tempted by an x86 OSX.

steveha

For the rest of us, gnoppix is the best bet. On a side note - what's the real benefit for gnoppix / knoppix outside of a kiosk or classroom environment?

You could have went with gnoppix

Is there a Knoppix->Gnome faq out there?

You might try Gnoppix.

so, you want to do what, make a distro totally dedicated to Gaming? a full installable distro, or just another Morphix Games LiveCD, if the former i really see little point, while Games are lovely to have around, and most linux distros give you a good handful of nice games(Frozen Bubble is apparantly very popular among new converts) but also allow you to do plenty of useful tasks on the same operating system, with this idea of run the risk of relegating Linux to simply booting up and playing games.

of course, if you're looking to improve upon Morphix Games, that's great, making the overall user experience a little more pleasant, and ensuring that games are really good enough for the general public, that's a great idea, it's the kind of thing you can give away in addition to Gnoppix, TheOpenCD, or whatever else. infact, it might be something worth putting in the handout pack for SoftwareFreedomDay

So I am looking for a GNOME-o-centric liveCD.

Like this one?

EduKnoppix
Gnoppix
NordisKnoppix
KnoppMyth
Augustux
Condorux
BitDefender
FeatherLinux
Flonix
Overckockix
Knoppix STD
Sulix

There's also a version similar to Knoppix which uses Gnome instead of KDE as its window manager.

And guess what it's called?

You got it right: Gnoppix

Have you looked at Partition Image? The NTFS support is still 'experimental', but it can load images over a network from a server. I don't know if it can boot them or not, but it's open-source, so I'm sure you can get some kind of help from the developers toward adding that sort of capability yourself. Then, you'd just need to make a set of bootable CDs that run the partimage client and automatically rewrite the hard drive with the correct image. Shoot -- if you put 2GB of RAM in them, would it be possible to go diskless and load everything onto a RAM Drive? That way, the PC rewipes itself every reboot and you might even get a kick in performance if the disk accesses don't clog the memory bus too badly.

Now, this probably doesn't help because you are looking for a Windows setup, but if you needed Linux, what about rolling your own customized version of Knoppix?

IIRC, the latest versions support network booting from hosted images, and several others have taken Knoppix and tweaked it with various different hardware support and software changes (Overclockix, for example, adds stuff like support for NVidia's NForce2 chipset using NVidia's Linux drivers, which Knoppix won't include because of the licensing terms.)

...though, on second thought. I suppose if you were willing to go through all that trouble, you might just be willing to host the /usr tree read-only from your server -- that would do about the same thing.

They failed to thank the Knoppix distro designer Klaus Knopper!
Kids these days!
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