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Old 03-22-2003, 09:51 PM   #1
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Knoopix is SWEET!


Man, Knoppix is cool! If you need a rescue disk or anythink like that, Knoppix is the way to go.

I saw a lot of posts suggesting it on this site, but my only experience with a CD-run distribution was DemoLinux, and I wasn't that impressed. DemoLinux did what it said: it runs Linux from CD, but that's all it did. Knoppix has all KINDS of applications, multiple window managers, and the hardware detection rocks (only distro to recognize my USB 2.0 CD burner out-of-the-box).

In other words, I'd seriously consider installing it permanently on my machine (if I weren't so busy with LFS ).
 
Old 03-22-2003, 09:59 PM   #2
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I tried knoppix I it is really amazing. It is also great with hardware detecting.
 
Old 03-22-2003, 11:30 PM   #3
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knoppix 3.2 is now available as of march 22
 
Old 03-23-2003, 08:43 AM   #4
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Is that going to run KDE 3.1?
 
Old 03-23-2003, 12:26 PM   #5
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knoppix packages

You can find out what packages are included in any distribution at www.distributionwatch.com.
 
Old 03-23-2003, 12:29 PM   #6
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Sorry, bad URl

Sorry, that should be www.distrowatch.com
 
Old 03-24-2003, 11:03 AM   #7
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It will run KDE 3.1 the new mozzila and samba
 
Old 03-24-2003, 11:04 AM   #8
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you can find the full list at knoppix.net
 
Old 03-24-2003, 09:17 PM   #9
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I've got to go download that and compare it to my version.
 
  


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