Knoppix 3.3 Is Out

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Posted by timothy on Monday September 22, 2003 @02:59PM from the ausgezeichnet dept.

maedls.at writes "After 6 months of development, the latest version of Knoppix 3.3 is out - Kernel 2.4.22 with HIGHMEM (4GB) support, KDE 3.1.3, XFree86 4.3, OpenOffice 1.0.3 (German and English), KOffice 1.2.1, new boot options for RAM or hard-disk preload of the CD. Possibility to create a persistent homedir with personal data and desktop settings on a memory stick or similar, optional with AES encryption." The main Knoppix site is still down in protest of European software patent legislation (click on the link inside the English paragraph to get to the meat of the site), but the excellent knoppix.net has a detailed changelog.

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Re:Why? by Kethinov · 2003-09-22 15:16 · Score: 4, Insightful

Uhh because Knoppix is better than WinXP will ever be. I'm a lab assistant at my college and I run Knoppix live CD to do my every day stuff at work. It's perfect for taking over Winblows computers without ever having created existence of it being there. When I'm done I just shut it off, reboot, and 2 minutes later the original WinXP OS is back and no one cares that I've been using a good OS.

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Re:Why no OpenOffice.org 1.1.0? by stefanlasiewski · 2003-09-22 15:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

OOo 1.1.0 is still in the release candidate state.

Knopper is very limited by space. Perhaps he didn't want to include software that's still in the testing phase? There's alot of software available in Debian unstable (contrib) , but not all of it is production-ready.

RC4 only came out a few weeks ago, and it does take some time for the Knoppix folks to put out a release ("... After 6 months of development... ").

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Re:What you don't look at the page first? by Feztaa · 2003-09-22 15:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

Hooray! This is exactly what Bram Cohen wanted. Up until now, the usual way to get linux ISOs on bittorrent was for somebody to get it off the FTP and then post a torrent link.

It looks like linux distros are 'getting it' and posting torrent links to help curb their bandwidth bills.

Now let's hope the next version of RedHat is available from an official RH bittorrent link... :)
Re:What you don't look at the page first? by Drakonite · 2003-09-22 16:29 · Score: 4, Insightful

What you don't look at the page first?
Amazingly enough, the story isn't an article to go see, it's an iso to download. So should everyone go hit knoppix's server to slashdot it for a while? Or should the smart ones of us realize there are torrents available, and click one of them so as to not slashdot the website?

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