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Knoppix 3.3 Update, 3.4 C't Edition Are Out

Posted by timothy on from the seed-the-torrent dept.

hkfczrqj writes "Knoppix has two more children. The first, 3.3-2004-02-09, an update with kernel 2.4-24-xfs, KDE 3.1.5, Mozilla 1.6, XFree 3.4. Also, and more important I guess, Knoppix 3.4 c't edition is out (torrent here). It is supposed to have kernel 2.6!" And it does. If you're looking for a way to test your setup with a 2.6 kernel without trashing a current install, this is a good way -- but note that the ct edition Knoppix boots into German (Shift-0 gets you an =, as in "lang=us") and kernel 2.4; you'll need to type "knoppix26" at startup to boot the new kernel. (You may find the excellent forums at knoppix.net helpful, too.) Update: 02/10 01:03 GMT by T : Note that the XFree version is really 4.3, not 3.4.

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  1. Gnome? by JanneM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is Gnome included? What version?

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  2. How many legs? by jelle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many legs does that browser have?

    Firefox? I thought it was Firebird

    Following the link myself... HUH??? What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb? But who? The database?

    apt-get install browser-formerly-known-as-firebird?

    Wasn't it called phoenix before, and then renamed because they found a PC-related company with that name? So the new version will create a ~/.phoenix, a ~/.mozilla-firebird and a ~/.mozilla-firefox directory including the resulting babelonian confusions?

    Did they realize that there already exists a joystick with the name firefox? And a Game PC with the name firefox? And even a Clint Eastwood movie with the name firefox... True to form, there even was a car named firefox, and a tire with that name. Oh, and a company with that name too...

    Or will they just switch names again when they figure that out?

    And next is the tunderfox?

    And then a company in Redmond discovers that somebody already uses the name for their OS to mean glass inside a hole in the wall, causing them to suddenly switch names without thinking of their installed user base? or another company just finding out the name of that big bright thing that lights the sky every day?

    Yes, phoenix/firefird/fox is a fine browser, but why the identity problems?

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