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GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD

Posted by michael on from the sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

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."

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  1. All right! by djeaux · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I recently "discovered" KNOPPIX as a nice way to have a Linux environment (and some favorite tools) anywhere.

    I've handed out a number of copies of the CD, too, to friends & colleagues who aren't brave enough to go through the whole repartition shindig to put a dual boot installation on their Windows box but who are curious about Linux. Knoppix has raised more than a few eyebrows around here. While I'm not exactly a "Linux evangelist," I do enjoy watching people expand their horizons. KNOPPIX (and now GNOPPIX) can be useful tools for winning "converts," if that's important to you.

    GNOPPIX means that now I can hand 'em two CDs & say, "This one brings up the KDE desktop & this one brings up GNOME, so you can see what all the brouhaha is about."

    That is, I'll be able to do that after the GNOPPIX site recovers from being /.ed or puts up a few gazillion more mirrors ;-) It may be faster just to wait for the KNOPPIX folks to finish their DVD image...

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    "Obviously, I'm not an IBM computer any more than I'm an ashtray" (Bob Dylan)
  2. Now we need to make a bootable live DVD-RW distro. by LinuxMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be really cool to take KNOPPIX to the next level: DVD-RW knoppix, where you can actually save your changes on the disk. (albeit slowness) Theoretically, you could write a certain amount of information to it, until you have filled up the disc, then have a mechanism to write a new clean DVD-RW with just the most modern information. That with a very driver heavy Linux kernel should allow for your "desktop" being exactly the same on any machine you insert the disc into!

    Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

  3. Hope this becomes a new trend; especially with DVD by bsharma · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hope this becomes a new trend; especially with DVDs. Then we can get rid of OS from hard drive entirely and just use a universally recognized file system on the HDD. You can boot whatever OS you want with the DVD and get the work done. Imagine four different people in your home using the same machine with four different OSs. The ultimate Virtual Machine!

  4. Re:Why is this useful? by Helmholtz+Coil · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I agree. I have a friend in the office who recently asked me what all "this Linux stuff is." So I gave him a Knoppix CD. No instruction other than "put it in your CD drive, give it a spin." That was a month ago. Now, he's rounded up 5 PC's at work he wants to exclusively run Linux on, not to mention his own personal laptop.

    It's also great for installing Linux yourself, because it's got some of the best hardware detection capabilities around.