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Quick Reviews Of The Latest From Crux, Knoppix
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."
This is a timely article, I just burned and used it today. A couple days ago my wife showed some interest in switching to Linux (after many XP frustrations) so I popped in a KNOPPIX 3.3 CD I had sitting around so she could try it out. She has an SMC2635 wireless card for her laptop and, sadly, it just isnt supported under Linux. Enter 3.6. It's still not supported, but two additions make it as painless as possible to get working: Captive NTFS and ndiswrapper. I downloaded the SMC drivers under XP and unpacked them on the hard drive. Booting back into KNOPPIX Captive NTFS then allowed me to mount the XP hard drive using XP's own NTFS dlls for read/write, and then use ndiswrapper to allow KNOPPIX to use the XP drivers for the SMC. Wireless goodness. The result? She's sitting behind me backing up files so I can repartition the HD to add a Linux partition.