Re: [Evolution] knoppix (off-topic)

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com au>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:15, Not Zed wrote:
> What is knoppix?

"KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound
cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used
as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a
platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD
can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."

--from http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/

It's pretty cool. Put the CD in the drive, boot, and about 3 minutes
later you have a fully operational Linux system. The underlying packages
they are derived from Debian's, but they configure the whole thing for
you and use some pretty ingenious compression to get it all on a single
CD-ROM. Comes with X, KDE, Open Office, GIMP, etc.

Did I mention it's all on *one* CD-ROM

The hardware detection is pretty awesome, as is the auto X
configuration. Like I said, 3 minutes to working graphical desktop.
(Someone demo'd it at linux.conf.au)

AfC


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