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Klaus Knopper, Creator of Knoppix Talks to DistroWatch

Posted by Hemos on from the good-things-small-packages dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to us about an interview with Klaus Knopper the author/creator of Knoppix. Knoppix is "a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. "

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  1. License by kaosrain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not mentioned in the Slashdot article, but most of the software in the Knoppix package is released under the GPL, and Knoppix itself is completely free. This is one of the reasons that this Linux bootdisk is such a big deal.

    -Kaos

  2. Knoppix installs full Debian system on Harddrive! by abcho · · Score: 5, Informative
    The usefulness of Knoppix goes far beyond demo.

    It already can serve as a Debian installation CD - and is arguably THE EASIEST Debian distro to install.

    LinuxWorld has an article about this capability: here

    The Knoppix-as-Debian-install-cd howto: here

  3. Brief review of Knoppix by markcappel · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, yes, I'm the editor of LinuxWorld and hence I have an obvious motive for saying this, but here is a link to a recent, fabulous, well-written review of Knoppix, and it's place in the Debian world.

    Mark Cappel
    Editor
    LinuxWorld