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Knoppix 3.2 Available
TheCrimsonUnbeliever writes "The latest version of Knoppix (bootable Linux distribution on CD) is out -
New features include: KDE 3.1.1 - XFree86 4.3 - Evolution 1.2.1 - OpenOffice
1.0.2 - KOffice 1.2.1 - The ability to
create a home directory on a memory stick or similar - More information is
available at the KNOPPIX
English homepage." If you're getting started with Knoppix (and speak English), you should also check out knoppix.net for the excellent forums hosted there.
I've been waiting for this "ultimate sysadmin's bootdisk" to include kde 3.1.1. This iso saved my life several times already. Go get it! Go knoppix team!
I know similar things have been discussed before, but does anyone have any experience on installing Knoppix to disk? Any problems with it? Does Knoppix work well as a main installation for a computer?
This OS runs faster than my installation of windows and it runs entirely off 1 CD. So cool.
Can someone translate this to a windows user?
while my Knoppix 3.1 cds are fine for mow i'm glad the knoppix folks are so quick w/ updates.
Knoppix is great for a sys where you can't install an OS. I still use my gentoo livecds for repair, but i never leave home w/out a knoppix CD. (I'm such a nerd)
I've used this on several ocassions to show people interested in linux it's features on their own systems. They were impressed that no installation / partitioning was required and they could play without messing up their MS boxes.
-- Rick
I've always wondered how many usernames and passwords I could capture as an experiment. Seriously. Windows 2k/XP requires you to press ctrl+alt+del to bypass this sort of thing to get access to the login screen. But what if you just left the login screen up without the ctrl+alt+del message? Do you think anyone would notice? I could say, with a high probability, that I would probably even be fooled. Anyone else ever think about this?
Knoppix is great but it's quite monolithic. Morphix is Knoppix-based (with the same great hardware detection) but it is based on modules so you can customize your ISO very easily. For exemple there is a Gnome module, A KDE module, A light GUI module (with ICEwm) and so forth ...
It's also nice because it's a clean Debian unstable whereas Knoppix was (i don't know about 3.2) based on a mix of stable/unstable packages.
Windows 2k/XP requires you to press ctrl+alt+del to prevent someone from doing this with a Windows app.
While knx-hdinstall does a great job e.g. for instant exorcisms of Windows from any machine ;-) by installing a full-fledged KDE workplace from just one single CD, Knoppix also provides a nice console-based Linux when using a boot paramater such as knoppix 2 vga=ask.
Complete with samba and CUPS, in a heterogenous LAN this does have important advantages over a single-floppy Linux.
However, there does not seem to be an easy way yet to install just this "text mode" system through knx-hdinstall on a machine with low RAM and HDD, as the script always insists on using some 3 gigabytes of hard disk space, and filling it with loads of X stuff that may never be used. (There are other distributions without X, of course, but on the other hand there's no reason not to do it with Knoppix either.)
Has anybody successfully installed it without all of the X and KDE code on machines where startx will never be invoked, or maybe even modified knx-hdinstall for this purpose (without rebuilding the entire CD)?
Although i've said this many times before when its come up... I give these things out like AOL trial cds! Whenever a new version of knoppix comes out i burn about 10 copies and hand them out to co-workers, friends and family. I give a very brief explanation of what it is and and I offer support.
.... think about that :P
I have sucsessfully switched only a few people over (they both dual boot and only use windows if needed) but if we all got a few people switched over
But is there a distro like knoppix for PPC?
I hope you die painfully and alone.
I downloaded and burned the English Knoppix CD, and booted it up... I'm using it right now, listening to streaming audio and working on my homework (from a data partition on my hard drive) using OpenOffice.
This is great, because I get to try out the new XFree86 without bothering to install it on my HD. Fonts look better than before.
You know what wouldn't be too crazy... leave a knoppix CD in public workstations and have a computer startup the OS, connect to the network (DHCP) automatically. You're ready to go. You've got web browsing and Open Office, and multimedia.
I've just given away about 50 knoppix 3.1 CDs at a user group show in melbourne. Its great , you don't have to touch your hard drive at all, and the instructions are dead simple.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft gets to leave tons of configuration info cached on the hard drive. Knoppix has to detect it all on the fly. For both to boot at about the same speed says tons about Knoppix. Of course, BeOS would boot in something like 10 seconds flat, but not every OS can BeOS.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
What about when you install new hardware and Windows does that New Hardware Wizard thing? You think it cached that earlier? "Ah, I sense you're going to install a new video card in me! I'd better get that driver ready!"
Maybe you should have pointed out that Windows is booting from a fast harddrive while Knoppix gets the CDROM drive, which is usually slower. Or maybe Windows is just faster (*gasp* Never!).
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."