Knoppix 3.6 released

An anonymous reader writes "Knoppix-3.6 has been released. It is supposed to have the announced FreeNX Server, Kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.7, KDE 3.2.3. It also includes ndiswrapper to use windows drivers for wlan cards. Download using bittorrent tracker at http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/. Remember: Leave your bittorrent client running after the download is finished! Distribution to ftp mirrors will follow tomorrow."

Comments

Re:I know there was a Ce'bit edition....

[ggeens]

Version 3.5 exists only as a DVD version. Check this page if you want to download it.

Re:Why no mention on the major sites?

[Julian352]

It is offered on the official bittorrent links, so I'm guessing they want to seed some bittorrents and mirrors before announcing to the world and having hordes of people download it. If they release it by bittorrent, the bandwidth usage is spread across all the users, and once the beginning /. (etc.) demand is satisfied, they can let the rest of the people use ftp. It's a nice way of combatting the /. effect, and the flood to the mirrors that result from it.

There's a forum post on official forums, and the Official torrent link also has the 3.6.

Re:Why no mention on the major sites?

[beegle]

It must've been a timing issue. It's now listed on the official Knoppix site.

Re:Debian ideology++

[dougmc]

But it annoys me that Knoppix follows the Debian "stable" ideology to the letter. Yesterday KDE 3.3 is released, today Knoppix 3.6 is released including KDE 3.2.

I don't pretend to know much about how Debian or Knoppix feel about the use of `stable' software, (and I don't use KDE (or Gnome, for that matter)), but if KDE 3.3 just came out yesterday, that hardly gives the Knoppix guys time to get it put into Knoppix and tested before releasing today. They probably burned their final CD weeks ago and have been testing it, making sure everything was good before they released it. They're not likely to ditch all that just because KDE released a new version.

Imagine a Knoppix based off Gentoo's portage tree.

I'm not so sure that having the very latest and greatest copies of everything is so important, but if you want it, make it -- you do have source and all that. But don't come crying to me when the new version of KDE makes your CD image require 710 MB of space and so it no longer fits on a CD :)

Re:Debian ideology++

[SpaceLifeForm]

The trick you are looking for is called Morphix

Of course, it's based on Knoppix, but you can build your own custom Knoppix if you wish.