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Knoppix Variant Offers Full NTFS Write Support

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-hot-swiss-army-knife-through-butter dept.

mache writes "Full NTFS write support for Knoppix is under discussion on Knoppix Ideas forum and it looks that Knopper will include Captive into Knoppix 3.4. The best part of Live CD with full NTFS write support is that it actually exists in LinuxDefender, a remastered Knoppix distribution made by Bitdefender, presented at LinuxConf 2003, the annual Romanian Linux Users Group (RLUG) conference."

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  1. what I still don't understand sbout Knoppix... by BigGerman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..is how it can offer better hardware detection and often better features than other, "commercial" Linux distros?
    Anyone has internal information on how Knoppix is developed and maintained?

  2. Re:Using microsoft programs in Captive. by xutopia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    obviously no. If someone has a valid XP licence they should be allowed to use it in any way they wish to and this includes the NTFS driver.

  3. Linux "Switcher" CD's by devinjones · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I see this as a crucial part of a "Switcher" CD that lets home users convert from Windows to Linux in small steps:
    1. Boot from CD to try it out.
    2. Convert to dual boot. There would be a utility to re-partition, install and configure for dual-boot. Let the user keep it dual-boot while they find substitutes for any Windows-only programs that Wine can't handle.
    3. Convert to Linux only
    You could give these out like AOL disks and slowly convert the installed base. There could be a utility to detect existing win32 programs and check their status in the Wine application list.

    This would be the logical extension to Bruce Perens' UserLinux idea.

  4. Re:It is legal by irgu · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Varies on country. Read the EULA. If it's valid in your country it's apparently a violation.

    However the EULA also states that any use of the software not expressly granted to the end user is reserved by Microsoft. This way Microsoft can say OK for friends and NO for competitors. Did you already forget when Microsoft threatened MS Visual FoxPro users some months ago who used the same trick?

    Ditch Microsoft then no such troubles.

  5. Re:Nope by TheLink · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just curious:

    How well does NTFS read-only work?

    Does it support > 2GB NTFS files on x86 machines?

    If it does stuff like that reliably then I might consider using it for certain sort of backups. In many cases I won't be too bothered about permissions and the other stuff.

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  6. Re:Using microsoft programs in Captive. by __aatgod8309 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    obviously no. If someone has a valid XP licence they should be allowed to use it in any way they wish to and this includes the NTFS driver.

    The flaw in your argument: use of "obviously" and "should" instead of giving a reason why Microsoft would allow this. (Allow? Yes. Until their EULA is declared illegal or void, it's a legally binding agreement with MS software users - even when it's stupid.)