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Knoppix 3.9 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the new-toys dept.

GuyRiley writes "The Debian-based live-cd Linux distribution Knoppix has been updated to version 3.9. Among the most notable changes are the update to kernel 2.6.11 and the inclusion of OpenOffice 2.0 BETA and KDE 3.4. This is likely the last single-CD version of Knoppix before the split into 'Light' and 'Maxi' versions. Torrent links here."

2 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Open source bloat by trewornan · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Microsoft" does it with one disc

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not a troll.

    Windows comes on one disc true!

    But then, to do anything useful you're going to need MS Office (3 disks), a development environment/compiler/toolchain (3 disks). . . So you're already at 8 disks and you're not even close to all the applications you get on most linux distros.

    Plus you've just spent >$200 on top of the cost of windows.

  2. Re:splitting? by agraupe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the question is: do all of us have a DVD *burner*? I don't yet, despite both my computers having DVD drives.