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WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix!
chronicon writes "As reported earlier Knoppix 3.8 was presented and CD's distributed at CeBIT recently. For those of us who were not able to attend, some kind folks have posted a torrent for all to enjoy.
Now, here's where it really gets interesting. Using QEMU (processor emulator) chris-uk has posted a modified version of Knoppix 3.8 that will run under Windows if auto-played, or if you wish, you can boot the CD for normal Knoppix. You can find the torrent here."
is it good or is it whack?
Can it run WINE?
Knoppix continues to be all that and a bag of chips :)
I should have the download finished sometime within the next two weeks or maybe not.
What's the point? I can see how this makes Knoppix easier to try out, but once you're in windows, why would you want a linux distro that loses its state once you close it?
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Is import all the settings across from windows and you can tell you granny it's the latest version of the internet and your away.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Gesundheit.
i never tried out qemu, but i suspect it to be substantially slower than a native knoppix boot.
on top of qemu comes the fact, that the whole system runs from a cd, which by itself has bad seek times.
i hope that people won't get false implessions, because they will get that 'linux runs slower than windows' feeling.
Only morons moderate based on a sig.
Quick! Someone boot the server with a Knoppix CD!
$cat
It's called Virtual PC 2004
I understand people are supposed to login for getting torrents of illegal stuff. Why are we supposed to login for getting a legal torrent?
You want to put a perfectly good running OS on a shiddy Windows base why?
What's the point? Whatever stability linux has is destroyed by being emulated through some virtual machine while windows is still running?
Are some people just that lazy to take the extra step of rebooting their machine or is their windows uptime just that important to them?
I've recently been looking into running Linux on my primary desktop to record music with. I could never get the Knoppix live CD to run correctly on my Gateway X700 system. I'll have to try this version and see if I can get anything to work.
Linux has been a frustration of mine for the past 4 years. I know a smattering of Unix commands and even armed with that I still can't ever seem to get a program downloaded and working like I can with windows. I'm looking forward to trying it again before I make the move to DeMudi.
Is there heaven? Is there Hell? Is that a Tuna Melt I smell?-Primus
what about a Beowulf cluster of these?
Very interesting... I hope in the future they'll be a 64 bit version....
From the reports I've seen, qemu is VERY slow. Is there an advantage to qemu over coLinux? I've been using coLinux to give me Linux under Windows for about a year now, and there is a lot to be said for native execution speed. You also get networking, and recently easy access of the native Windows filesystems without employing samba-type file sharing.
Of course, it's difficult to deny the power of running a gameboy emulator on a GBA emulator on a Linux emulator on a Windows emulator on your Mac...
*blinks, looks at watch*
Wow, only about fifteen minutes to bring down a well known site. Someone should start keeping a log of how long it takes for the slashdot effect to do its job.
Hence the hype surrounding Novell shipping Xen in the next version of SuSE...
now you can crash Linux on Windows?
Holy crap!!! the Poster actually linked a .torrent, maybe all the complaining actually got somewhere.
Now only if others would follow.
Im glad
I like booting Knoppix in VMWare! Same concept.
in korea only old soviets use frostige prostrdge
fristol postulate
Dude! Have you seen how your website renders in IE6? Looks soooo unbelievably bad. Text is massive and menu is at bottom of the page - gotta scroll down to see it. Looks ok in Firefox though.
Here's the Coral Cache and the Mirrordot Mirror.
Anyone know if the torrent is the German version KNOPPIX? Been holding out on trying remastering and USB install until this came out, but my high-school german is fairly rusty.
... grumble, grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter, Millenium... Hand... Shrimp, I tol' 'em, I tol' 'em.
how is this news? some guy put in qemu to a distro and this makes it to slashdot?
I got news damnsmall linux has been doing this for sometime now in an "embeded" download to test out the distribution in windows. Running linux inside of windows at 1/10 normal speed isn't gonna make people switch over to linux any faster....
CoLinux is also a very handy package for running linux on windows. It installs linux on a single file on your HD, then runs linux on it, and you can access it throught VNC. So you can have windows and linux sharing the same machine and HD, running at the same time, on different windows. Pretty handy.
http://www.colinux.org
You can use it to run linux from some other partition too. It comes with a version of debian built it, but there are other packages for other distros.
You can also try topologilinux.
http://wwwtopologilinux.com
It's a bundled installation of coLinux and slackware with all bells and whistles.
I'm hoping they will release it as an installable distro at some point. The demo scripts worked great for patching different applications through jackd w/ ALSA. Very cool.
um, so audio...
:)
the aGNUla - DiMuDi project has a great install disk for audio recording freaks out there..
http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/
If you want a live cd for audio stuff, try auppix as well:
http://www.auppix.org/auppix_intro.html/
I use them both regularly, and have yet to be disappointed
Ummm.. it's standards complient XHTML and CSS 2, it should render ok if Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, whatever ships with the mac.
IE is probably picking the brail and screenreader or largefont CSS, which funnnly enough has large text, a small menu at the top and the main menu at the bottom.
If there's a setting in IE that lets you select the style sheet to apply main.css
Apart from that I may add IE7 to the site in an attempt to fix IE.
Why are you using IE if you have firefox?
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
This CD wasen't setup just to see how many people he could piss off.
This in my opinion will be great to friends who still are incapable of going to the BIOS and changing it to boot from the CD-ROM.
The reason is because it's XHTML, which IE doesn't recognize and therefore totally hoses the CSS. If you use a HTML4 DOCTYPE with IE, it uses something approximating real CSS.
I suspect that Oliver would rather rather just bitch out IE than fix this problem, however.
Looks ok in Firefox though.
That's all that matters then...
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
'Seriously linux users, you're operating system wont make up for the fact that girls are repulsed by your bodies.'
That's ok, I'm gay.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Currently 9 seeds and 542 peers, this is a good test of torrent scalability. Even if it takes a while to ramp up, this would kill just about any server on the net, kind of amazing how any of this works at all. :-)
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
Can you patch the display drivers from windows through to knoppix so one doesn't have to screw with the poor Linux support and pain-in-the-ass installs?
Vol~
without the need to reboot. Run them side by side and compare the features.
It is, after all, emulation, so don't expect to break speed records with it. Also that IP connection limitation in XP won't be broken by running KNOPPIX in an emulator.
Now KNOPPIX can join the ranks of MacOS 8.1 (BasiliskII), AmigaOS 3.1 (Amiga Forever), as yet another OS emulated under Windows.
The advantage I see for this is that web developers will finally be able to check how their web pages look under different browsers and operating systems without having to reboot Windows each time they want to look how it looks under Linux.
The next step is to make KNOPPIX run AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware, and AntiTrojan removal programs and make any FAT32, FAT16, or NTFS partition as read/write so the Malware can be removed. Yet what is the point when you can run the KNOPPIX HD Install script and get rid of Windows and all of its flaws that allow Malware to be installed in the first place.
P.S. I am moving to KANOTIX now, it seems to be a bit better than KNOPPIX.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
I was not aware of auppix, thanks for the link!
Is there heaven? Is there Hell? Is that a Tuna Melt I smell?-Primus
QEMU is an EMULATOR. They want to demo linux to windows users running under a full blown emulator? I can see it now. "This lunix thing looks nice, but it's just so SLOW!".
They're going to end up convincing dumb windows users that Linux is slow as hell!
Before you say anything, keep in mind that they are running QEMU on windows, and the QEMU virtualizer is closed-source and linux only. So they can ONLY do full emulation.
knoppix.net is really slow and the forum is /.'ed, people must be storming that site with this news out.
/.'ed but not posted on slashdot? I mean, no direct link, everyone just goes there themselves.
Is this this the first time a site has been
I christen it, the slashdot halo effect.
The preceding message was based on actual events. Only the names, locations and events have been changed.
Following the QEMU list, this was done some time back by a Japanese developer Kuniyasu Suzaki I believe.
.EXE from CD.
Discussions ensued about how to make it faster... some patches are available to directly mount the compressed Knoppix volume so that portion doesn't need to be emulated. Also, the SaveVM feature was improved, so rather than boot knoppix, just keep a compressed VM ram image on the Knoppix CD. That makes it boot instantaneously.
QEMU is the fastest thing going as far as Free emulators, given more improvements on the virtualization side, I think this will be *the* way to run Knoppix for Windows users that just want to try it out. The speed will come in time.
Some of us pushed for features like User Mode Networking in QEMU just for this purpose. Windows users in larger corporations often do not have administrator level rights, so they can't install any special drivers. So Knoppix under QEMU can get right to the net on any Windows box that will run a
-- John.
I'll think about building the site in html just for those people still using IE6.
If I had the source code to IE6 I would consider fixing the problem.
IE accounts for 12.5% this of this months visitors
1 28456 77.02% Mozilla/5.0
2 4705 12.73% MSIE 6.0
and less 9% for the month before
1 42064 77.66% Mozilla/5.0
2 4689 8.66% Konqueror/3.3
3 4609 8.51% MSIE 6.0
This assumes that all browsers are reporting the correct version.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Why are you using IE if you have firefox?
I can't live without ActiveX.... just kidding! hmm.... I'm kinda used to the IE interface - habit I guess. Been using it for years, since I never liked Netscape. Also, Firefox doesn't *seem* as snappy. On slower machines it takes ages to start up.
there a preloader for firefox.
and there are light weight versions of firefox about that can run on portable devices.
There's also an IE themed firefox
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Now all they need to do is add the following ability to make it perfect:
1. Allow people to apt-get packages while the CD is running. Then...
2. Import user files from Win into a Knoppix-side directory. Finally...
3. (this is the important one) Press a button and presto! The system builds an ISO of original winknoppix+packages+userfiles that is a no-fuss super-customized knoppix CD!
If they could make that... then a seamless transition to Linux goodness would finally be within reach for everyone!
That's . . . very, very odd. I've often been able to max out my bandwidth with torrents (though not nowadays, considering that I'm at the university residence . . . faster even than my prior aDSL, true, but if I let it go, I'd break my weekly download/upload limits damn quickly!). There are many things that could be going wrong. One of the problems often encountered, which is the most likely cause since I've seen similar same symptoms on many a computer, is your router. Part of the reason I've never had to care is 'cause I've eskewed routers; I hate them, I reallly do. But if you're using one, and getting crappy speeds using BitTorrent, this may very well be it, so just read up on the solution here. Hope that works for ya.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
My roommate screwed up his Windows configuration and can't get the wireless card to run on his laptop. I let him boot from a Knoppix CD to access the Internet. Would this WinKnoppix configure the wireless card properly, or does it require a correct wireless card configuration in Windows?
you mean this
Amen. I work in the tech department of a big-box store, and spyware/virus removal is the majority of what I see. I use BartPE, but it feels like it's trying to be Knoppix. And it would be useful, because most people aren't willing/knowledgable enough to make the switch, because they don't want to lose support for their card games, and if something went wrong, finding someone who knew linux well enough to fix it would be tough.
I have used DSL (Damn Small Linux) before and been able to use it on some users machine to log in to the server quickly with my SSH keys all setup on the key. When I am done, I kill it. I love this because I can use it on any machine I have and be able to test scripts and such on my machine without risking any of the stuff on the local machine. Will it run slow? Yeah, but if you have a ton of RAM and speedy processor(preferably 1 GHz or faster) it should run just fine.
Gorkman
88. It's not announced on the website yet but it's on some of the mirrors. 14.
Looks like IE is losing on mine, too.
1.Mozilla 17,829
2.Netscape (compatible) 10,210
3.MSIE 5,884
You seem upset about something. I thought being Microsoft's bitch made you completely happy?
I just started a torrent, and I'm already over 12KB/s.
Yes, I'm sharing too.. 16KB/s up is my limit for torrents (384K DSL uplink).
My college has no dedicated linux computers, but has spent an obscene amount of money on Dells with WinXP. This makes the linux class I'm in a little more annoying than it needs to be. The best part is that there's a problem with the Dell's bios, so that every version of linux I've tried on them runs at 640x480 (no amount of screwing with xf86 settings helped). With the Knoppix on Windows, there's a chance I'll be able to run linux there at a reasonable resolution.
Also could useful if you need to access the internet in linux, but have a wireless or winmodem card not supported in linux. Or at least I hope that's the case.
That's all that matters then...
Especially given that his link title is only applicable to platforms with no native IE.
Everything will be taken away from you.
Use Shareaza to handle your torrents:
Currently: 30KB/s down, 6KB/s up
My workplace won't let me download torrents. We have an anal Network Access Control Policy that not only blocks the ports that bittorrent requires (on a globally routable subnet) but we have snort configured to detect any use of bittorrent. Peer-to-peer applications (all) are banned under our IT access policy and if it's detected, we get our network port disabled.
Is there an FTP or non-P2P method of which I can grab this file?
this is in no way fucking insightful. anyone who thinks that 'login to access torrents' == 'illegal torrents' needs to be permanently banned from the internet.
I just tested the disk on two different systems running a fully patched XP SP2, I get an error 3 lines in to the boot up sequence and it craps out.
Off topic, but Virtual PC, back in the day when it was still a good Connectix type product ... Yes, I did have to try.
:)
Those programmers DO have a sense of humor after all!
(I wanted to see OS X run Windows to run Linux
Well now that they've released this new fangled Knopix windows hybred all OS's can support native IE.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
for America, right there...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
While my QA dept. would be happy to have Linux off hand w/o ghosting, I still don't get the reason for doing it.
1. Resources: I gain nothing from running two rather heavy op. systems simultaneously.
2. Licensing: I still need a license for Windows.
3. Reliability: When something fails where should I seek for the reason: My software, Windows, Linux, Emulator or just the exclusive combination of all above?
What the hell is it good for?
Any livecds support booting with qemu-fast under linux? and if so how can some give me a booting example... Sorry for being a bit off topic
mounting it with daemon tools or something should speed it up a bit. that's my plan.
...that Cygwin's got a replacement? One that's an actual distribution of Linux?
Tluin natha Linux xxizzuss uriu olt bwael mon'tun.
Is QEMU ported to Mach OS X ?
... are they making a subtle point here about the Darwin kernel's origin ?
Hmmm
Servlet v2.4 container in a single 161KB jar file ? Try Winstone
in the parent, right there...
can it run Lin....er...Duke Nu...ummm...Qua...on my DVD player?
Wait a second, I'm confused. Can someone help me with this one?
Inject.
This may just convince me to stray from Windows and try out Linux (I've been wanting to for a while, but every time I try to set up dual-booting, it just doesn't work -- even with my Linux expert roommate alongside me giving me pointers. I swear I'm cursed). The only reason I don't have a Linux-proprietary machine is because of the Windows-only software I run that I just can't do without. Linux on a CD running under Windows will definitely help me learn Linux a lot quicker.
bloodclotjungletekno
im using it now great hd install takes 20 minutes and is just as good as debian sid if not better http://kanotix.com/
120 chars is not bloody enough for a real sig!!! you bastards even count spaces!!!
That's the whole point of everything.
I'm suprised you even get that many. Wine users? Anyway, if you're using PHP or something, it's not hard to just swap the doctypes -- IE will grok XHTML syntax.
This is a fine example of the good uses for Bit Torrent and similar technology.
As I am downloading this file i see the network speed at over 25Mbytes a second
>....whatever ships with the mac.... Safari, which is based on the same rendering engine as Konqueror. It renders your site fine, btw
- Apple Computer......proudly going out of business for over twenty years.
Knoppix to Windows - Now you can watch me up close, and see how stable I am. I can stay up and running for months.
Windows to Knoppix: Um, I am carrying you now. I fall, you fall. And my uptime is approaching 24 hours...
Knoppix( aside ) - And I wonder who thought this matchup was a good idea...
I can't afford a sig!
I'm running pure XML and XSL, but I can still tell apachie to lie to IE.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Hoped and prayed that something like this would come along eventually. Thanks for posting a good story! I don't know anything about QEMU, does this have socket support? Is it treated as a virtual machine or are the programs executed in knoppix each a seperate process?
She refused to run it. She thouth "KNOPPIX" meant "no pics" as in "no graphics."
I explained what it was but she still refused to try it, because all the r4d d00dz on her course told her that Linux was an abomination, unclean, and not to be let near a Windows PC. Windows was the best OS in the world, and that dodgy Linux thing might mess up your PC.
Other attempts at Linux advocacy have also failed. I don't bother now.
Stick Men
Do they have a Bugzilla for this? I was trying to get this going under Windowsand was unable to. I alsonoticed the batch file that comes with this tries to start this with 1 GB of ram. If my machine has 1 GB of ram and I boot Windows and try to get this to run and it asks for 1 GB, I am going to have...issues. :D I have tried 2 separate machines and was unsuccessful to get this to boot in QEMU on windows. DSL works fine. Better then fine. It's worked on almost every PC I tried it on including the same laptop. I would love to give this a try but damned if I can figure out what I need to do to get it running. I'll stick to a modified DSL for my booting Linux in Windows deal. Oh....booting off of the CD did work fine.
Gorkman
Maybe I just know a lot of stupid people but if you run linux under windows, your average user won't understand that linux actually replaces windows. A lot of people just assume to see the little magic start button when they power up. Booting directly into linux helps simple folk (in regards to their technological prowess) realize that windows isn't magically built into the hardware and doesn't need to boot for the computer to run.
I did this on XP:
Downloaded and ran win version of qemu
Create an image file bigger than your iso using qemu
Point to your ISO
Run! (Knoppix took about 8 mins on old PIII laptop)
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
Here's another option, designed for a USB key. It runs Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. all in a virtual linux machine. The release is planned to work on GNU/Linux, ms windows and mac os x, although the current release candidate doesn't work on the mac. It also uses qemu, of course. More info: Portable Virtual Privacy Machine.
The only way to run X is by having an X server on your Windows box,
CoLinux works like a charm using VNC: you run a VNC server on the Linux side and a VNC client on the Windows side. A side-benefit is that you can actually disconnect from the coLinux process and reconnect later.
As far as I'm concerned, coLinux is the only way to go for running Linux under Windows these days; it is superior in just about every way to any of the commercial or free solutions.
If you don't restrict yourself to that subset of cases, then QEMU wins on account of having support for far more than just a custom build of the Linux kernel.
That's irrelevant for Knoppix. Furthermore, no, I have not wanted to run Freedos or the SLES9 installer. QEMU may be useful for someone for those cases, but that doesn't make it a good choice for Knoppix.
Besides, rather than spending a lot of time now trying to get QEMU integrated with Knoppix (and giving the user the false impression that Linux is slow), it would be better if all that effort were spent on actually making coLinux better. CoLinux is pretty much ready for prime-time; all the additions now (COFS, framebuffer) are just gravy.
On a p4 system with a gig of ram, the performance is pretty lacking. It might be a better idea to use one of those drive image programs rather then the actual cd. Anyway, my thanks for those souls seeding their hearts out on that torrent.
Just hold down the Shift key when inserting the CD.
sulli
RTFJ.
QEMU with KNOPPIX
. html
- en.html
h tml
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/qemu/index-en
coLinux with KNOPPIX
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/colinux/index
Here is an installer to NTFS of Windows2000/XP.
Install2win
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/win/index-en.
My granny was Admiral Grace Hopper, you insensitive clod!
"Stupidity is ALWAYS terminal."
so is intelligence.
sum.zero
Here is coLinux+KNOPPIX
- en.html
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/colinux/index
Ummm.. it's standards complient XHTML and CSS 2
Well, I just clicked the validate buttons at the bottom of your page and they both fail with errors!
hmm.. I'll have to update the build scripts,they should be running CSS and XHTML checks.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Knoppix 3.7 couldn't detect my computer's onboard sound, so I couldn't really play around with it for most of the things that I usually do with my PC. Are there any changes or anything that could make this worth downloading and installing, either in Knoppix or in Linux (I believe 3.8 has a newer kernel than 3.7?), or is there possibly anything more I could do with Knoppix 3.7 to get it to work? I tried configuring the sound drivers, but the automatic configuration failed every time and I wasn't willing to check each individual driver to see what might hit the spot.
Ah. Now I see...
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I will stick with Linux even if microsoft goes completely insane and releases the source code for windows under the gpl and someone releases a "FREE" version. I don't want it. I like my pc to RUN RUN RUN, none of that crashing/virus/spyware shit on my pc please, let me just get on with some work, oh and games ! thank you... mandrake fan
Fixed that one
, but now it looks like libxml (or xmlstarlet) has started playing by not closing the content-type meta tag
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
suicide bombers, 9/11, international terrorism, slavery of women. lets face it dude there's a problem that needs sorting there. not that i agree with the 'death to' moron.
Run Linux?
coLinux needs admin rights to use networking.
So I could only use it on private / friends computers
A blog I run for the wealth
It's got the momentum, why divide up resources?
GNOME vs. KDE, Linux vs. BSD, Mozilla vs. Konqueror. Among the benefits of competition is that it breeds lack of a monoculture. Would you rather have everybody use IE because you're not "dividing up resources" between Microsoft Corp. and Mozilla Foundation?
In the meanwhile you can download it from home.
Setting up broadband would cost $480 for some customers, that is, $50/month for a minimum 12-month commitment minus $10/month that the customer is already paying for NetZero or Netscape dial-up Internet access.
Linux running QEMU with itself as guest: /dev/hda
qemu -snapshot -hda
It works. You really want to use the -snapshot parameter as that'll keep it from writing directly to your hard disc. Also, never commit changes back to disc.
I'm using a CVS copy of QEMU (got it 2005-03-12) and Debian testing.
lotsa peers and seeds - no problems downloading the torrent here
I know what you mean about Firefox but why don't you try Opera?
Linux is not Windows
What if I used VMware on Windows to boot up a virtual machine running Linux emulating Windows? Maybe I would finally have a secure Windows environment.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I'm stuck with IE, because I installed (and then uninstalled) bluetooth drivers 2 weeks ago and FireFox no longer works (it starts, but there's no window visible).
I run CoLinux (with full-featured, official, Debian Unstable (sans kernel)), Cygwin/X, and BB4Win under Windows XP Professional. I run KDE apps with the QT Windows look & feel, and it's pretty indistinguishable from a native windows app. CoLinux and the Cygwin X server are started as Windows services, so they're typically both running before I log in. I like to run Apache and Kate & Konsole to do web development with python. With 2 gigs of ram, this setup is EXTREMELY usable. You can play Doom 3/HL2/etc without anything hitting swap. I'm hoping GCC 4.x and future revisions to CoLinux will decrease KDE app startup time, as it's the only real problem (and even so, only the first time you start an app). BB4Win provides a very lightweight alternative to the Explorer shell, and Unix users will undoubtedly prefer it to the flagrantly gay default WinXP theme. I also use ObjectDock to provide an OSX-like place to launch apps and spare me from having to navigate the Program Files tree. If you stay away from IE/Outlook/cheesy pr0n sites/P2P apps, spyware/adware shouldn't be a problem at all
Isn't XHTML basically just HTML, but with gone for good {yeaaay!} and tags in all lowercase, which looks trendy but makes them much harder to spot in nano?
Is it just me or is the torrent file completely slashdotted? Both on the site from the article and on linuxtracker.org it just times out. Anybody have a mirror to the .torrent?
I run a Debian/Kernel/Knoppix Mirror: (http|ftp|rsync)://debian.ams.sunysb.edu/
apt-get @ > 5MBps == teh win!
It's intolerably slow running under Windows on my system (AMD 64 3000, 1GB RAM).
Antivirus http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/mirrors.php
Bootup
Another bootup
Initializing
Konsole
Kstart Menu
OpenOffice
The idea is nice, but dear lord is it slow. It took 10 minutes to boot up, open office took 20 minutes to start, gaim took 10 minutes to start, there was no sound and the fonts were horrible (which I had to adjust) but I suppose you cant expect much from an OS running inside of QEMU... Its fairly nice for the extreme newbies coming into Linux but I could not see anyone using this for day to day tasks.
I find it to be very slow. Also, can't touch the local volumes and no network support. Very cool concept, but still a long way to go.
Wind from windows
em from QEMU
demented
Comic Book Guy: worst joke ever!
No more "no pix" confusion. And a backhanded compliment to the guy that took the first step.
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS GIVES ME?
The ability to use "eject -t" from Linux. I don't think that in all the various iterations of Windows, they've never come up with an OPEN CD TRAY but there is always an EJECT when you right click on a CD drive icon. While the CD tray remains open, there is no opposite to send it back in from a menu. SOmebody please tell me I am wrong.
I shall tell you what it is good for. It is good for running Linux on the machines at my high school, which all have passworded BIOSes. hehehe ;-P
What is this "WinOS" thing?
Seriously, people. Stop making up names for things. Windows is called Windows, not "WinOS". Linux-based systems are Linux-based systems (or "Linux systems" if you must, or "GNU/Linux-based systems" to be more politically correct), but they are not "Linux OS". Apple's current operating system is "Mac OS X"; it is not "Apple Max OS", "MaxOS", "Max Unix OS" or "Macintosh OS".
Nobody goes around referring to a Ford Explorer as the "Explore Ford" or the "Explorer Forder" or anything else like that. Why, then, do people (even geeks) consistently mess up the names of operating systems!?
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
Ads. ;-)
LOL. Downloaded Opera just now, selected the graphical ads option, and blocked advertising.com in my router. Now it just shows "not found" where the ads usually appear - except for the "Buy Opera today" ad. :-)
but a shame it won't run everything, or if it does, it requires some complex rigging of files and registry settings to make the programs run under BartPE. Even then there still is problems, like Malware removers removing the infected files, but not the registry keys that are changed by the malware.
When someone's NTFS partiation got hosed, I used to have to bring a spare hard drive with me with XP on it to run Chkdsk to fix their hard drive after booting from the spare. Now I just boot a BartPE CD-ROM and run Chkdsk from that.
NTFS is weird, got a hard drive error on the disk, and it won't let Windows load any further to run chkdsk to fix the problem. Instead it just complains that it cannot load some file or something. Boot off a floppy disk, and it cannot see the NTFS partition.
BartPE can run Embedded Mozilla, TCP/IP networking, Nero, McAfee AntiVirus, Adaware, Ghost 8.0, and other useful utilities to work on hard drives that won't boot, or need malware removed and booting the OS won't allow it to remove Malware that has become part of the system or in use and cannot be removed.
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I tried to download it, but the Bit Torrent tracker is down.
How can I update the virus signatures? Or do I have to download a new version with each virus database update?
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I have KANOTIX, I run a web server using KNOPPIX, but when I get free time I might change it over to KANOTIX. It seems KANOTIX uses a web based install script that always makes sure you got the latest version. KANO apparently wrote the scripts for KNOPPIX.
:(
When I installed KNOPPIX to my hard drive, I used the Debian install method.
Just one thing, those Novell programs like Red Carpet, refuse to run on KNOPPIX/KANOTIX because it does not see it as Debian. Therefore the whole Novell line of installable software I cannot install that is based on using Red Carpet.
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Wouldn't KnowDoze be a better name?
attributes always have a value now.
like checked="checked"
instead of checked
I would much rather see it as a bool instead, checked="1"
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