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Quick Reviews Of The Latest From Crux, Knoppix

Posted by timothy on from the even-the-internet-seemed-faster dept.

A semi-anonymous reader writes "lakerdonald has written a review of Knoppix 3.6, the latest release version of the popular Linux Live CD. Knoppix currently ranks #3 in the distrowatch chart, and is certainly a distro to keep your eyes on!" (Apparently, German readers can also get Knoppix 3.7 on the cover of a Germany computer magazine.) Another anonymous reader writes "The Crux Linux ppc port is growing really fast and well! These guys reviewed the release candidate #3 for the 2.0 version of this light-weight distribution."

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  1. Speed by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've used knoppix a lot and I think it's a great distro for a specific need, it's not fast. But I blame that on the fact it runs everything of the CD and into memory. This review is talking about lighting speed. I love knoppix, but it's never the
    "fast" distro. It's just the one that "works" TM.

    1. Re:Speed by cloudless.net · · Score: 3, Informative

      You can use Knoppix as a completely harddisk-based distro. It would be much faster than when you run it on CD-ROM.

  2. fast is relative by clsc · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> it's not fast. But I blame that on the fact it
    >> runs everything of the CD and into memory

    Then again, if you have a lot of memory, it's quite fast - otherwise the HDinstall feature is quite simple (although not mentioned in the review). If you HDinstall you'll have something like a debian distro, which will be as fast as you and your equipment allows it to be.