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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 am a big fan of Knoppix, "Linux on a CD" is a great idea. It's also a great tool to have for diagnostics when you can't load the regular O/S. I can't wait to try this new edition.
This OS runs faster than my installation of windows and it runs entirely off 1 CD. So cool.
Knoppix is just the thing that I've been looking for to convert friends and family to Linux - worked with several people.
Does anyone know if this latest version still has the odd bug where XP systems seem to boot incorrectly? This has been the major obstacle to getting it accepted at school - still worries about it affecting the computers.
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)
It's similar to having all your my documents, desktop etc in one folder. This folder happens to reside on a memory stick instead of C:\documents and settings\yournamehere.
Or something like that. Feel free to flame & berate me at will.
I will now redundantly add my name to the end of my post. You know, in case you forgot me or something.
with a large selection of fake Windows login screens, so I can reboot a public computer with this disc and collect a few login/password pairs?
If you're getting started with Knoppix (and speak English), you should also check out knoppix.net for the excellent forums hosted there.
I think one can assume english is spoken if you're reading an english web site.
On linux /home/[you] is where all of your settings are saved (for you logged in as [you])
In many systems it is the only area that is writeable for you as a normal user (not running in admin mode)
For KNOPPIX - this means that all your settings will be carried around with you - But not all of your hardware condiguration - So you will be booting into 'your' desktop everywhere you go
All I need now is a supported stick
make sure you get the latest version of 3.2 and not, say for example, the one from v3.2-3-21-2003. they changed the default language from german back to english...
-- Kircle
This is just another testimonial for Knoppix. Quite apart from all the other nice things people are saying about it, when I plug in my NEX IIe MP3 player, Knoppix recognizes it straightaway and places a link to its filesystem on the desktop!
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
To claify, say you want file winfix. It's not included on the Knoppix distro, so you make a USB memory stick with you home directory. You'd put winfix on that stick, and it'd register at boottime, and when it was fully loaded, your winfix file from the stick would be in /home/$yourname/, easily accessable. It's because 1. you can't write to a CD-R (duh) and 2. any files you create would be stored on a ramdrive, unless you acessed the hard drive, in which case they would be stored locally on that one box. Storing files on a USB memory stick allows you to keep all your knoppix tools and stuff togather. I hope this helps to clear things up.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Got it, burned it, loved it. Easiest way to install Debian on x86. They put alot of thought in it. One lesser known feature is that it detects wlans and automatically configures the cards to access it. (provided that there is no WEP installed) so it works great at Starbucks....Latte and linux!
~corporate tool, but employed~
couldn't be easier, CTRL-ALT-F1 to get the root console and knx-hdinstall to run the installer, setup the disk with cfdisk and then it copies away, 4 config questions, done.
~corporate tool, but employed~
Joe Barr wrote a good piece about this; I'm still burning my Knoppix 3.2, but I can testify that what he wrote here is a good guide for the previous versions and I'm guessing will be applicable to the new one.
:))
... However, I am optimistic that this is no longer a problem with the new one :) (And my German is good enough that I could get through the German screens, so it *did work* it was just ... worrisome :)). And that was a glitch -- I forget which ISO had the German jumping, but I downloaded another one afterward (the next rev) and it worked fine.
:)
(Upshot: there's a script called something like "knxhdinstall" which leads you through formatting hard drive etc, then transfers the Knoppix base OS and included apps. Previous Linux experience strongly recommended, but it's certainly easier than going in with zero experience with, say, regular Debian
I have used Knoppix as an installer for several machines; that's one reason I keep extra desktops around, for playing with different distros as we asymptotically approach The (mythical) Perfect OS.
It works well, but there are some glitches: with some versions of Knoppix, the hard-drive install method seems to jump between English version and German version, doesn't matter that I had the EN iso, doesn't matter that the system seemed otherwise localized to English
As a perpetual fumbler, this is the only way I have gotten Debian working well, and it was quick n' easy. Knopper deserves the computing version of the Nobel for this
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Yikes. That's really confusing. To define stuff: 1. Ramdrive-a virtual memory drive created in RAM /home/$yourname/ -It's where you store your stuff in unix/linux
2.
3. USB memory stick-something like one of these
4. CD-R: CD-recordable- it's write only, meaning you can only change it once by burning something to it. Compared to the CD-RW, which is a CD-rewritable, which can be written more than once.
6. Boottime-when the computer starts up.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Yes, Knoppix will run without messing with your hard drive. You stick it in the cd-rom drive, it creates any directories that have to be writable into ram, and you can work on the computer without use of the hard drive. (This is why it is so well loved by people who continuiously have to fix computers.)
I do security
It won't write to your harddrive at all, but you'll be able to make your windows harddrives readable through the mount command (the software itself might even do this for you, but I don't know). Also, if your looking for a good linux-on-a-disk distro check out gentoo's live disk at www.gentoo.org. If your system's up to snuff you can even play the linux version of Unreal Tournament 2003 demo right off the disk! You'll need an nvidia card though :(. Still, check it out.
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For those who haven't tried the KnoppixKDE edition, it's great. Last I heard, the developer of this Knoppix remaster was working on a new version. Does anyone know if it is nearing completion?
KnoppixKDE doesn't have all the software that the full Knoppix distro has, but I generally find it to be a little more comfortable and much more unified.
The only thing that was missing (I think) in the last version was Scribus. Scribus is a QT app that comes with Knoppix that looks like it may eventually be a good alternative to Pagemaker and perhaps QuarkExpress or InDesign. It's got a ways to go, but it's already quite useable for simple layout.
-Peter
. Penguins Surely Ca
Try with Timo's rescue cd. It is based on Debian. and you can configure it to include the packages that you need. I recomend it.
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/
Check out Peanut linux only 340mg download, not too bad.
Not mini enough? Did you miss the os news discussion on other linux distros Check some of the ones listed there. Good luck!
What if you had Knoppix on a CDRW? Would it be somehow possible to channel disk writes through a cd burning tool and save all your files directly to the cd?
Space would be at a premium I imagine but if you deleted some of the apps you dont use.... Now THAT would be pretty amazing.
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
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.
"Knoppix 3.2 Available"
I don't know what you mean by "available" - I certainly can't find any mirrors that will respond
Windows 2k/XP requires you to press ctrl+alt+del to prevent someone from doing this with a Windows app.
Someone should put it on Kazaa or eDonkey or somesuch. These distributed, multisource p2p apps are perfect for stuff like this.
Cheers,
Costyn.
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Yes, but why reinvent the wheel? :-)
-Peter
. Penguins Surely Ca
Yep. That's the one you want. The 21st March -EN version had German as the default language!
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
I've been waiting for this "persistent home" version of Knoppix to appear. Now when I travel I may even be able to leave my laptop behind -- all I need is a Knoppix CD, and a USB memory key.
A friend said exactly that when I gave him a copy. Just try it and you will see:
1-The impressive automatic configuration
2-The quantity and quality of software included
3-The capability to read Linux and MS filesystems, including ext3 and reiserfs
In my home machine I just insert the CD and in a few minutes I have a Debian system running. It configures correctly all the hardware, the network card, Internet access, CD writer, sound card, VIDEO card, etc.
Last month I bought a new video card. I just let Knoppix generate the Xfree configuration files for it, rebooted Debian Woody and it is working fine. It is also an excellent tool to test new or second hand machines before buying.
However, to be honest, I have to say that Knoppix hangs my new Toshiba 1900-303 laptop. This seems to be strage but it may happen.
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)?
One thing that really surprised me was how fast Knoppix runs. Compared to the other distros I've had on my laptop (Redhat and Mandrake), Knoppix screams. The others were noticeably slower than Windows, while Knoppix is at least on par, maybe faster. Of course it's a little slow loading applications from a CD, but otherwise it's a screamer.
The boot speed is incredible, especially considering all the hardware detection it's doing. I'm up and running in about 30 seconds. Win2k takes at least 3-4 minutes, every time.
I've had little experience with Debian. People say it's faster, and now I see they're not kidding.
I just wonder why is it that other distros don't follow the trend, use some of knoppix' technology and add a demo mode to their installers. People could boot off the CD, see a demo, and if they like it and their hardware gets successfully detected they can go ahead and install on the disk. If I remember correctly SuSE was doing it ? How about Mandrake and RedHat ? Are they going to catch up on this one ? It looks like the way to go !
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
Full changelog at ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX
But is there a distro like knoppix for PPC?
I hope you die painfully and alone.
Granted, it's not quite the same league as using Knoppix as a Debian installer, but you can use Knoppix to install Gentoo Linux as well, so you can actually use your PC while compiling stuff, instead of having it useless for a couple of days. Pretty sweet, I must say.
See here for details.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
"These distributed, multisource p2p apps are perfect for stuff like this."
Wanna bet 99% of the users don't bother with checksums? The words "massively parallel" and "r00t3d" aren't ones I'd like to see together in a sentence, thank you very much :-)
My Sig: SEGV
It was from some spammer advertising a cable descrambling device. I talked to the guy who answered the phone (I love calling 800 numbers attached to spam), and he was ruder than he should have been. Of course, by sending spam he'd already been ruder than he should have been, but I digress ...
So, if that sig is outdated, good -- I hope the whole operation dried up and shriveled away.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
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.
Many use Nero with no problems... many however do have problems.
The Knoppix developers have some documentation on how to burn Knoppix CDs with Nero.
Allolex
Okay, well, I've downloaded the latest Knoppix ISO and am running Overnet, so here's the eDonkey link (you would be able to download from me if you have Overnet or the hybrid client):
8 73 280|931571d31ff327cc95f850173ec15194|/
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-24-EN.iso|731
(sorry, slash won't let me make a valid clickable link; and make sure you get the spaces out that slash puts in)
Cheers,
Costyn.
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