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

[jonathan_ingram]

And what does this fork give us over the original Knoppix distro, other than a senseless deviation into a second-rate pseudo-desktop environment?

Re:well what I prefer..

[Anonymous Coward]

You are such a nerd. That is not at all "funny". That the idea of sleeping with software came to your mind is sick. That the mods found it funny is ridiculous.

HTH

Re:Why is this useful?

[ergo98]

It sounds like a "neat-o" project that would be a good way to nondestructively play around with Linux.

Having said that, I found this statement humorous: "but given the limits of what you can compress onto a single CD, separate projects makes sense to me.". Given the limits??? A CD has, what, 740MB? Yeah, they really had to push to fit into the tiny confines of a CD. I find it intriguing how the same community that endlessly used the term "bloat" to describe Microsoft software now can keep a straight face when describing the space on a CD as "limited".

What's the point?

[Eric Ass Raymond]

I mean what's the point?

This is a perfect example of how the open source community is wasting its resources. Instead of concentrating on one definitive GUI, let's fight it out between two major ones. Let's confuse the end-users and sabotage the creation of any kind of stable culture of actual Linux applications.

Good work, zealots.