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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.
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
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!
If you have to explain the acronym, don't use it.
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
Here's an idea... leave the disk in when you leave.
Blanks don't cost much, and it's one way to "spread the word".
Perhaps you should look up what, exactly, this Knoppix thing is.
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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.
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Since DVD's are quicker than CDroms that alone will get me to use the DVD. All the other software is bonus stuff!
If you are writing anything over 20 pages, neither OOo nor MS Word, nor Wordperfect will do. Trust me I wrote a 100 page document once in Word, absolute nightmare.
Latex has a learning curve, but once you have passed it, there is nothing close.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".