Differences between version 5 and predecessor to the previous major change of KnoppixLinux.
Other diffs: Previous Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:41:27 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 7, 2003 1:02:34 am | by KnoppixUser | Revert |
@@ -2,4 +2,17 @@
Knoppix linux is a rather different kind of distribution. It runs entirely off CD. Knoppix is an __excellent__ distribution to show people about linux, it probes your hardware and boots up into X with mozilla, openoffice, gnome, KDE and almost everything else you can think of installed. It can mount FAT32 partitions so you can save your work, or, alternatively, it can back up your "home directory" to a floppy disk. It's also kept very up to date, being updated a couple of times a week.
If you're interested in learning what this Linux thing is all about, I suggest you get hold of a Knoppix CD from somewhere, either d/l'ing it or asking someone at your local [LUG] to get you a copy which they will usually do in exchange for a small donation being made to the [LUG]. Most people have a spare Knoppix CD around just so they can boot linux if they have to on any machine that can boot off a CDROM.
+
+See KnoppixNotes for user notes on KnoppixLinux
+
+----
+(From old Knoppix Page
+
+[Knoppix|http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/] is quite an unusual and fascinating LinuxDistribution.
+
+It's a single bootable CD, with 1.8GB of compressed data on it. The entire distribution runs solely off the CD-ROM, not touching your harddisk at all unless you so desire. The CD also includes some of the best automatic hardware detection I've seen which gets everything running in [KDE] immediately. A perfect demo disk, and rescue CD.
+
+The CD contains [KDE] (and [GNOME]?), [OpenOffice.org], [Mozilla] and heaps of other software.
+
+I highly recommend you download and try a copy, you'll be surprised.
