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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. 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.