GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD

ubiquitin writes "While KNOPPIX has been around for some time, the GNOPPIX project has only recently made its first release. The main difference is that it lets you boot into the GNOME desktop environment. Usually forks are more trouble than they're worth, but given the limits of what you can compress onto a single CD, separate projects makes sense to me. Hopefully more widespread recognition will also bring about a few more mirrors."

Comments

Re:Troubleshooting Potential

[Ed Avis]

If (note, Slashdot posters, *if*) GNOME is more attractive than KDE, then perhaps Ximian GNOME is better still, since they try to make it more polished and simplified (although it's usually a release or so behind). So perhaps there could be a bootable distribution which uses Ximian GNOME. This could outdo all the others with the pinnacle of silly names, Xnoppix.

Re:well what I prefer..

[edrugtrader]

another post by a geek who doesn't know 2 things about game.

you never stay the night, idiot.

Re:Why is this useful?

[stratjakt]

Knoppix isnt no rescue system.

If you cant rescue it from a floppy, it ain't worth rescuing!

All you should need is a bash prompt for linux, a dos prompt for windows.

At least, thats all *I* need.