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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:19:53 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:41:27 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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-http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en
.html
and unofficial english [knoppix website and forums|http://www
.knoppix.net/]
+[Knoppix |
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/] is quite an unusual and fascinating LinuxDistribution
. It is a perfect demo disk
and rescue CD, but can just as well be used as your main working environment
.
-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
.
+It comes on
a single bootable CD with 1.8GB
of compressed data on it, and
runs solely
off the
CD-ROM
. It comes with the best automatic
hardware detection of any OperatingSystem around
and boots a [KDE] desktop with all your hardware set
up and [OpenOffice.org]
, [Mozilla]
, and heaps
of other software at your disposal
. [
FAT32]
partitions are mounted read-only by default. You
can have
your home directory backed up
to a floppy disk, so the distribution won
't touch your harddisk at all unless you so desire
.
-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.
+If you haven
't had any contact with [
Linux] before
you can try it out first hand with no installation required and no danger to your existing OS installation whatsoever. Just download the
Knoppix CD image
or ask
someone at your local [LUG] to get you a copy (expect
to provide
the blank yourself, or give them a buck or two)
. 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
+See KnoppixNotes for user notes on KnoppixLinux.
-----
-(From old Knoppix Page
-
-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
.
+There is also an
[unofficial english
Knoppix website with wiki and forums
| http://www.knoppix
.net/].
