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Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store
IdleTime writes "O'Reilly Developer Weblogs has a nice review of the new yet unreleased Knoppix 4.0 on DVD. As the article says 'A totally new release of Knoppix was unveiled at LinuxTag 2005, Knoppix 4.0. This is the release that introduces the split between "maxi" DVD and "mini" CD releases. I've tried out the 4.0 DVD and let me tell you, I'm like a kid in a candy store.'" AlexanderT points to some currently available torrent files for the DVD.
They are slowww.
But the article could have been summed up by just saying "it has tons of packages. Pretty much everything you'd expect."
Check it out.
want to go out and buy a dvd burner
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. -Nikola Telsa
This is the release that introduces the split between "maxi" DVD and "mini" CD releases
My question is: are the maxi ones super absorbancy?
It's made of pure awesome.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
One of the links to the torrents, links back to a slashdot 404. And the DE in the filename of two of the other links make me suspicious that they are German.
See, this is awesome, because I can finally have everything I ever wanted in Linux with me, to run on any PC with a DVD drive (and who doesn't have one these days?), without having to install a thing. This means when I go to a friend's house, I don't have to use their spyware infested Windows partition, I can just pop in the Knoppix DVD and run that.
I would like to know what else is included in the DVD version that isn't in the CD variant, though.
The best DVD distro I've tried so far is Suse 9.3 Professional. It's really well polished.
The only problem seems to be video and audio codec support (no MP3s or DVDs by default)
Ah, yes... They're called instant DVD's. They're out before the movie is actually finished.
We're looking at now now.
"I've really only scratched the surface of the Knoppix 4.0 DVD"
Ouch -- it hasn't been released yet and he's already ruined his copy? Hopefully he didn't delete the image file or he'll have to download it again.
That sold one of my coworkers on it, and now he typically boots to linux instead of windows.
I love knoppix and all, but when was the last time you popped it into someone else's computer (especialy one at work or school if your not IT/fixing it) and didn't get your head bitten off.
Hell, I still like booting school computers into knoppix when no one is looking, then taking the CD out and walking off. They FREAK out... lol
Scott Swezey
good distro, rather light review, but, and bear with me on this one, what about machines that lack dvd-roms?
i promise they're out there, they're not even uncommon. sure, any pre-packaged machine will have one these days but, imho, one of the advantages to knoppix has always been all the functionality you get from a just one cd. i can certainly see how nice it is to have the choice of 7+ window managers and all those bulky suites that were being cut, but no mention is made regarding the continuation of the cd-based distro. is it going to be dropped?
download time is, as always, also a factor to consider.
i'm sure i'll download and try out this release, as i have with more than i can remember in the past, but it crosses my mind to wonder if such bulk might not hurt the usefullness of a traditionally handy distro.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
Anyone know whether there is an english release?
I now present a multichoice rant.
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It gets kudos for being better than the last installment but it will never be as good as because
I would suggest Graphics, Security, Utility, Marginalisation for reasons and OS X, Windows, Fedora, and FreeBSD for operating systems.
NO!
Having RTFA, I see he meant it was fun to look at all the cool treats in store for Knoppix users.
I was hoping he didn't mean morbidly obese, toothless, and spoiled rotten by overindulgent or inattentive parents.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
It's nice that you can cram every single package under the sun onto a DVD, but does it really make "knoppix" any better? I mean, the review basically says "OMG Packages! I can run teh Gnome & Firefox, then KDE and Konq! This makes knoppix awesome!!!
I'm more interested in what the 4.0 "mini" release.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
no but they have wings
[20:36] wwwdot/.dotorg
whats the language support for these torrent isos?
we have Damn Small Linux. www.damnsmalllinux.org
It takes just 50 MB and can be run off read only memory (or memory that you shouldn't write too much to) like compact flash or a usb dongle. It is a riff off Knoppix. It is the easiest way to create an 'embedded' system that I've seen.
Not only does Linux scale well but so, apparently, does Knoppix.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/ 0050255&tid=190
So dont worry; we can have the best of both worlds.
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no no. the maxi has the britney spears song as a bonus track.
I just looked at the package list and Knoppix is still using XFree. Is Knoppix the only distro that still uses that? Why havnt they done to X.org? When the hole licence thing happened I switched all my machines(im on gentoo) and I never had a problem. Anyway it looks like a great release and I look foward to getting it.
marvelous - what innovation going on - here you got Ubuntu, Knoppix, Xandros, and even Linspire along with a ton of other distros like PClinux, Mepis etc etc I could go on and on.
Along with Redhat pushing open source into the enterprise in the United States.
I am just glad I support open source and give money, time, and expertise when I can. There is always something new to learn and I really look forward to the future.
People you can live without windows. So keep up all you open source heads - I am really having fun and I don't think the real fun has even started yet.
Funny I just tried that. On my machine and my dads machine SUSE would crash no matter what. We both run Linux full time and have never had a problem with Knoppix. We did finally get it to run on my IBM Thinkpad. After seeing it I think ill stick with Gentoo for my distro and Knoppix for my LiveCD.
Please don't interpret this as a downer.
I use knoppix myself, I think it is the best distro out there and I plan on continue using knoppix.
I am just posting this because I was curious about it and had to go to the trouble to find out.
If you are interested in installing the DVD version of Knoppix to your hard drive you have to install it all. You can't pick and choose among the software.
FWIW.....
More like TP, a fitting abbreviation.
Many of you already know this, but one of the great things about linux LiveCDs is the ability to work on an otherwise screwed-up computer, and salvage it (or the data on it, etc.). A LiveCD is absolutely great for fixing a Windows or linux PC that has gotten messed up. For instance, you can create backup images of disks using partimage and restore them with a LiveCD (in particular, the SystemRescueDisk is good for that).
/. crowd that has not played with LiveCDs yet (or linux at all) you should seriously consider burning a copy and seeing what all the fuss is about.
A Knoppix LiveDVD is more geared towards booting a PC and being productive (with OpenOffice, Blender 3D, etc.)... however it's a great thing to have lying around because you can diagnose and repair a system, do a full virus scan (as pointed out in TFA), while having internet access, being able to open relevant wordprocessor documents, etc. etc. A LiveDVD like this could also help in extracting files from a corrupt filesystem (you can open and work with the files immediately, if that becomes necessary).
To anyone in the
Virus knocked XP out on my laptop. Got a Knoppix CD, booted the laptop with it, mounted the XP formatted hard drive, then copied files to another machine on my network. Good stuff.
mods on the rag today? Or just retarded like usual?
byte people_who_care == IdleTime;
int64 people_who_care_less == Everyone().Else;
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Another Linux with twenty different GUIs that all look like shit.
Don't you think this is getting just a bit old ?
Note: Grousing about accepted submissions is considered offtopic and usually moderated as such.
The DVD boots into German by default, but this can be changed with the "lang=us" cheatcode(several other languages are also supported).
anyone else have a hard time with the disc spinning up and down? seems slow. there should be a built in utility to keep the cd-rom from spinning down so load times are faster.
which can multi-boot knoppix/x86 knoppix/ppc knoppix/x86_64(exist?) will be real handy.
KOS-MOS
It's a bit like having 4 billion digits of pi on DVD instead of 700 million digits on CD. Sure, you probably won't need the 3.7 billion extra more, but nothing forces you to look at them.
It's funny you should bring that I up. I just solved the same problem last week on my 9.3
.asx audio streams. I can't get iPodder to work with it. I had the same problem with Fedora Core as well.
This link below solved almost all of my problems. Go to the multimedia section and pick out the codecs.
http://packman.links2linux.de/
In the libraries section look for the Win32-Codecs
The only thing I'm still frustrated is the Python libraries, and
Hope this helps!
Oh, that's a bunch of crap! Just cause you have 200 channels to tune to on your TV, doesn't mean you have to watch the "dirty" channels. Slashdot gave a direct link to the actual torrent download, and not to anything else. I hadn't even realized it was a pirate site, until I read your post. Gee thanks! I've downloaded a ton already of copyrighted works. Keep spreading the word, dude! You socialist commy ;)
Does anyone know if the DVD releases (incl. this one) from now on will include compression like the CD version of Knoppix? I'm d/l'ing it now, but just wondering whether actual disc reading will be faster (no decompression) on the DVD version?
default language is german (hence the DE) you can set language to english by using the following cheat code at boot: lang=en
i've also made the torrent availablle here...
Get your torrents...
Wait a sec...
Two quotes from the Slashdot summary:
"nice review of the new yet unreleased Knoppix"
"currently available torrent files for the DVD"
Someone must be using a definition of "unreleased" that I'm not fimilar with.
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
no redbull is how they get the wings.
[20:36] wwwdot/.dotorg
this text is not here.
sum.zero
I think the wave of the future isn't live DVDs, but GNU/Linux distros you can boot off the USB thumb (or pen) drive that hangs off your neck. The prices and capacities of such drives continue to fall such that 2GB versions are now within an employed geek's price range.
Having a bootable necklace is way cooler than a live DVD, almost like the stuff of a James Bond movie. For when was the last time you brought along a 12 cm data DVD to a rave party?
Here's one. It only tops off at 128MB though. So it's little more than a bootable business card.
I'm a sci-fi vegan: I don't want the aliens to think we have as much right to live as the fried chickens we eat.
There are girls out there that don't have the knowledge of knoppix dvds. If you met them away from the internet you would know this already.
[20:36] wwwdot/.dotorg
Man that is heelarious, because nobody ever made that joke before.
Oh wait, I forgot. Slashdot is all about beating a dead horse.
Download my free songs!
Namely, your meds. You're frothing.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
That's kid in a kandy store
I've been sitting on the fence for too long now as an IT professional, and if I'm always working with NT then I'm going to lose my perspective, and my edge. Here I go!
Oh, that's right, you don't have one...
Thats what I keep telling my wife.
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
Yay the tracker for the torrent seems down or something.. i get "problem connecting to tracker" looks like http://mongo56.org:3535/announce is dead.
Installation sources for YaST:
9 .3
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/
http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.3
I really don't like it when people pass of a blog entry as a review. The author tells us that "There are simply tons of packages on this DVD", and spends three paragraphs (about a third of the 'review') describing ClamAV and how to use it - something which has little or nothing to do with Knoppix on DVD apart from that fact that it's included.
Nothing against Kyle Rankin and his blog of course, he's doing what blogs do. And it is nice to know I can now run Gnome. But shame on you Mr. IdleTime.
You can find torrent trackers & even info on how to hexedit the ISO to force it to US English at the Knoppix.net forum thread.
Would anyone have that same torrent but hosted on an other tracker? Thanks.
Can the new version wash my dishes?
This is true. The installer is a dialog/Xdialog script that guides the user to partition the HD, create a user account, enter the root passwd, and then decompresses the entire compresed loopback KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX2 files to the new partition. Then it applies the user info, converts the init & runlevels to be normal init system, and installs grub to the MBR. At no point is there any choice in deciding which packages to install since ALL of them get installed.
/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in
Perhaps you should look up what, exactly, this Knoppix thing is.
I have one PC with a hyper-threading P4 and the recent Knoppix and Ubuntu live CD's I've tried lately all fail to boot. The LILO screen works and the kernel loads, but almost immediately I get a flood of error messages about IRQ 18 and then the kernels all hang or slowly repeat the errors over and over again.
Tomsrtbt, http://www.toms.net/rb, fits on a floppy disk. (one of the ways he saves space is by taking out the extraneous Os and spaces in 'Tom's Root Boot'
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Alright, what mod rewarded a point to a post that couldn't get the assignment operator right?
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
The tracker appears dead.
bit off topic i know .. sorry.
but with Torrents like this , what is the fastest speed people have seen ( for the swarm i mean )
atm i am getting this Knoppix ISO at about 50Kps and seeing a swarm speed of about 9Mbytes/sec
interesting to see how fast distributed networks really can be.
I forget whether it was knoppix or mepis that did the best job of it, but I used this approach to help a friend's grandmother save the files from her virus-stuffed Windows PC. (Booted up with the LiveCD, moved files to external disk, removed suspicious files from the Windows partition ... inelegant, and I'm certain it was not a great job of it, but the machine did work better afterward.)
;)) Windows support at work, and since I won't be living nearby anymore, that might be the smarter thing to keep doing. Hopefully her boss gets sick of it and says to switch to Linux ;)
She wants me to put on Linux so she can just never have the Windows problems again anyhow, and perhaps I'll take that risk. However, she can get free (and frequent
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Knoppix 4.0 is brand spanking new release only as a 4GB ISO that at last check had a 230:1140 seed to downloader ratio. I think that is why there is little to no info about it.
/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable. Knoppix 4.0 is using Debian unstable for all of its packages, so maintenance of the HD should be easier than before. So far the only thing broken in a HD install of Knoppix 4.0 is manpages functionality. man ls or man vi works on DVD but is broken when run from the HD install.
As for the review, if you are at all familiar with Knoppix then it is just the same Knoppix with a huge load of packages, some GUI improvements, and some new functionality brought about by using packages & configuration info from Knoppix derivatives (like Kanotix) that was then accepted by Klaus Knoppix & fed back into Knoppix mainline. I felt that Knoppix 3.9 was ugly and now 4.0 uses KDE 3.4.1 with the Plastik widget style as default as opposed to previous release which used Keramik on KDE 3.4.0. Those folks who were missing GNOME can now use GNOME 2.8 since it has been missing for at least 18 months. Knoppix 4.0 uses a older more stable snapshot of UnionFS and will now not crash or exhibit strange filesystem behaviors like 3.9 did. V4.0 includes OO.o 2.0 beta, KOffice & if I recall correctly, abiword & gnumeric so it looks like office apps are all covered. If you want specifics on the packages, then look to the package list file on the Knoppix mirrors.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in
Like most special conference releases (ex: Knoppix 3.8 Cebit Edition), Knoppix 4.0 DVD edition from LinuxTag, is standardized in German but contains support for many languages. A boot time cheat code of: knoppix lang=us will force it to load in US English. A more permanent method is to hexedit the ISO and change the lang=de entries to lang=us. Again like most conference releases, Klaus Knopper did not officially release the DVD as in is only for sale at LinuxTag for 5 euros. As a FOSS project, it is legal to distribute the ISO and this is what someone has done. You can find torrent trackers, screenshot galleries, and more info at the Knoppix 4.0 DVD Knoppix.net forum thread about.
I (sort of) agree with you; about half of my computer stable is ruled out by the DVD version. However, a) I also don't have any floppy drives; there's no one format that will make everyone happy all the time b) DVD seems a pretty conservative standard to aim for in the near future -- the new high-capacity media that are coming out in the same size disk I bet will all (or mostly) be backward compatible and c) since there's a CD version, too, the DVD version can be in the future for those without DVD drives everywhere. CDs remain my favorite target medium, though -- they are as close to ubiquitous as things generally get in the computer world. Even if (when) DVD drives are as widespread as CD drives are now, that's still a lot of data to pull down, and expensive if you don't have absolutely all-you-can-eat data service.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
the bittorrent trackers have all been slashdotted.
could someone post a trackerless torrent/alternative link?
Guess there's no need for Gnoppix any more.
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/kn oppix
Has the 4.0 DVD version (or any other) have NTFS writing support by now? Perhaps by checking out the partitions on a pc and look for win NT/XP/2k3 and rip out it's ntfs dll. Nothing illigal with that, and no risk of ruining the filesystem.
:-(
This seems to be the only serious missing element in knoppix for me when somebody's windows really got fucked up. I need to get really creative to solve some problems when I don't have write acces, and that mostly implies a lot of rebooting...
Dependency hell? =>
Offtopic, but did you see the subscribers only feature at the top of the page. I guess now subscribers get to see the stories 10-20 minutes earlier than the poor people. I think this will work out nice for them. No more "woot frist post" people! Go knoppix
Religion for nerds. Stuff that really matters
I prefer a Windows live CD. You get a full working NTFS read/write driver that way, and you can get support for any other drivers Windows has that way. Go to http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and you get the software necessary to build it. It's a little bit of a pain to set up, but once done you boot to a working Windows evnironment.
Knoppix is nice for Linux recovery, and I did encounter one NTFS partion that was seriously messed up that Windows didn't know was NTFS but Knoppix could (sorta) read.
Timothy, why link to three seperate web pages that each contain links to the same metafile?
The official knoppix website should just host it on there own tracker too since its arready leaked or some other tracker should host it cause the one posted is clearly dead (mongo56.org one).
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Try different kernel parms at boot, or shuffle your PCI cards around. At any rate, you're lucky - my IRQ only goes up to 15. ;-)
a tcodes.txt
Try boot: parm " pci=bios " (? IIRC) to see if it will boot; then you can DL the source, recompile the kernel and test at your leisure.
--See this for more info:
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/knoppix-che
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
Considering 'Insightful' moderation, you must be growing pair of wings by now.
I think you are confused... Your subject is 'Knoppix plug' which refers to another sort of hygene product other than the maxi!
And the DE in the filename of two of the other links make me suspicious that they are German.
That would be exactly right. Knoppix was originally developed by Claus Knopper, who is German, and the project was originated in Germany. It only makes sense that the first mirrors would originate in Germany as well.
No new torrents yet? Can someone please create a new one if you were fast enough to grab the torrent before the tracker went down?
Thanks!
and wants some of its package versions back, that could be why :P
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/kn oppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0-2005-06-08-LINUXTAG2005-DVD-DE. ISO
Knoppix is fantastic - it's been a great system-saver and diagnostic tool, as well as my way of making a ghosting system.
My only complaint is if you let it load the desktop, the desktop is incredibly ugly - busy amateurish backgrounds, and almost always the ugliest KDE themes. I can see Knoppix putting off a lot of people who would otherwise move to Linux when they see the awful desktop theme in Knoppix. Can't they make it simple and elegant like Red Hat's Bluecurve?
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Nice of slashdot editors to link to the torrents, but do you really want to promote a site like torrenreactor, a place that knowingly links to torrents to copyrighted works??
They have to provide links to copyrighted works if they want people to use torrents to download distros.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
nntp://alt.binaries.freeware
Those torrents are about as fast as a beowolf cluster without electricity.
Synergy is your friend
Bullshit argument. There is no correlation between wanting the GPL to be enforced and wanting music, movies, and games copyrights to be obliterated. You are doing undue pregidious to to honest copyright respecting slashdot readers. If you want to attack those that pirate games/etc, do so, you do not need to drag innocent people through the mud for it.
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
Of course, so are motherboards.
It's probably too old a BIOS to boot from USB or Firewire?
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Also, I'm curious if the files are compressed? It's a tradeoff of storage and disk read speed vs. CPU speed, and unlike CDs, I'm not sure if it's a win, but DVDs only have ~4.7GB for regular or 8.5 for double-layer, so you'll run out of space after a while :-)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19685 &start=10
I've been getting about 40k so far, please be sure to seed!
Does anybody know if you can boot Knoppix from external DVDs using USB2, assuming your BIOS is new enough to do USB booting at all? My main desktop only has a CD burner right now, and iTunes complains about not being able to read audio from it, so I'm trying to decide whether to buy a cheaper internal DVD burner or a slightly more expensive USB2 version, which would let me use the burner on my laptop which only has DVD-ROM capabilities. (I suppose I could add Firewire to the box as an alternative, but I don't think my BIOS has any chance of booting from that.)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
i created that shitty release live on linuxtag2005 on the very first mornin. i flew over to crazy old-yurop and visited some good old communistic linux-friends and made this release to the public possible.
k noppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0-2005-06-08-LINUXTAG2005-DVD-DE .ISO k noppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0-2005-06-08-LINUXTAG2005-DVD-DE .ISO k noppix/
n oppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0-2005-06-08-LINUXTAG2005-DVD-DE. ISO n oppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0-2005-06-08-LINUXTAG2005-DVD-DE. ISO n oppix/
hrhr, enjoy this fine shitty knoppix release and greetinx to the mswin2k team on e-f-n-e-t
get all the info and downloads here
http://mininova.org/tor/62113
http://mininova.org/tor/62113
http://seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
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http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/
http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/
http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/k
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/k
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/linux/system/k
be sure to get the complete download (large file support, >32bit >4gigabyte, be sure that your sucky linux (wget, squid, lftp, curl supports filesizes bigger than 32bit shit...)
hail to the king baby...
also be sure to watch the files (cam-shots (not cumshots you crazy basterd!:), screenshots, linuxtag2005-ticket-pix, knoppix4-shop-purchase-receipt and much more....)
slashyslashdot sure takes ages to report on fresh communistic-warez live from the former soviet-block infront of the ironcurtain...
hail to fidel castro and farewell dubbya
there are other trackers
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
there are other trackers
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926 [seedler.org]
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926 [seedler.org]
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113 [mininova.org]
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113 [mininova.org]
Slashdot is all about beating a dead horse.
--
No sig for you - you come back, one year!
Says the guy with the dated "Soup Nazi" sig.
there are other trackers
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
Shouldn't this be mini DVD and maxi CD? At least Sony and Verbatim sell 8 cm DVD-Rs (1.4 GB) and Sony also 8 cm DL DVD-Rs (2.8 GB), intended for camcorders.
Since DVD's are quicker than CDroms that alone will get me to use the DVD. All the other software is bonus stuff!
there are other trackers
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.seedler.org/en/html/info/95926
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
http://www.mininova.org/tor/62113
I, for one, will welcome our new Control Freak Overlord, but only when your domination plans have finished compiling. :P
Dam small has X, firefox, Office apps and a bunch of other useful programs making it a workable desktop, all in 50MB. For what it does it quite impressive. tomsrtbt has its place but in this day in age I'd rather not assume that A) the machine will even have a floppy and B) your floppy disk won't break when you need it.
I just can't wait until 100% on machines can boot from usb sticks. Right now only certain usb thumbdrives can be made bootable, lots of machines don't recognize Usb thumbdries as bootable etc. The day USB booting is a common as cdrom booting I'll be a happy camper.
btw anyone else find the article remarkably shallow? I know he said he only scratched the surface but still, more informatoin would have been nice.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
I would agree, but it is useful for running on Windows as well. At work, my boss has mandated that I run Windows. But with VMware, I can boot up and run my favorite bootable distro (currently Damn Small). Since on some distros you can install new packages, and VMware lets you save snapshots, boot time is shorter and you can customize it. I use VMware if I want to check out the latest bootable distro but don't want to reboot my PC to do it. Creating your own bootable distro? Testing it isn't much easier than firing it up in VMware.
I think that bootable distros are one of those things that we never thought we would get so much use out of, but now that we have them they are very handy.
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In Soviet Russia, only old Koreans beat a Beowulf cluster of horses, which, I for one, welcome as all our base belong to Natlie. W00t! FP?
I've been looking, and seem to be missing something very small and very important.
.iso file, can extract all files if needed, but I need to know how to use XP to make the CF card bootable. Any suggestions?
I need (!) to get Linux (DSL is fine) onto a bootable CF card via Windows XP. I've got the DSL
(Problem is my diskless notebook computer goes BSOD when it hits the Win2k login screen. Yes, I've tried all that. I just want to boot DSL from the PCMCIA card slot, extract what files I need, and convert the machine to Linux. No, it won't boot from any USB device, and I don't have a PCMCIA-based CD or floppy drive. My only hope is it will boot from a CF card.)
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
This word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Does anyone know a place to donate to the people that produce Knoppix? It's saved my butt quite a lot, and it's an easy way to show people what Linux can do.
'Be always mindful, even when ditch-digging.' --D. T. Suzuki
its nice seeing people getting stoked about Knoppix.. its been such a handy util for me thats for sure.. i wish all operating systems were that fail safe.. if you fuck it up, just reboot and put the disk back in.. no formatting, no partitioning.. i can only imagine the potential Knoppix has created and will create in 3rd world countries.. i personally love to use Linux.. but I always find myself going back to Windows after a while simply because of certain software suites like Adobe CS.. my HD isn't huge so dual booting is a little pointless.. Knoppix was the perfect solution for me.. keeps me in the linux loop, so I can continue to see all the new software that comes out, and keep in touch with my linux interior.. ;)
*plays the Apogee theme song music*
notice that do(o)m is dom and doom.
"way to miss the joke, loser"
oh, to be as cool and intelligent as you...
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"Oh wait, I forgot. Slashdot is all about beating a dead horse."
I, for one, welcome our dead horse overlords.
In Soviet Russia, dead horse rides you!
Blah. Sometimes I think the people that write jokes around here have a dream of writing for SNL.
"Derp de derp."
..does it run Li.. oh, nevermind.
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In Soviet Russia, here must be new to you !
There's a little tool called Captivate on the Knoppix distro. I'm not sure how far back it goes, but it allows a user full access to the NTFS filesystem using the native NTFS binaries on a Windows partition. The catch is that you have to locate said NTFS.sys or .dll or whatever.
There are apparently several inconsistent ways to write to an NTFS partition, and trying to catch them all is the root of the NTFS access issue. Captivate solves that problem by recruiting the original libraries to help.
Yes, but does it have a "toram" boot parameter? Oh wait, never mind.
(oh, BTW, gasp isn't a standard UNIX command.
( 'tbl' is pronounced 'table' )You can, however start with 'look' and 'talk'. If you've got serious 'uptime' issues, then you can go to the 'wall' as well. You would thus end up with:
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