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English version? I just grabbed a version - I think from a Virginia site - some of the docs are German; some English. Enter a flag at boot and it gives you an English keyboard and the menus of the gui are mostly English and all. I'd call it 90% internationalized. Is there a pure English version?
I used a CD-RW with no problem - a "music" CD-RW, even, because it was the only one I had that was 700 MB.
What are you trying to boot with it? If it's that 450MHz w/30MB RAM, that's probably not going to work. Not sure how much RAM DKnight had. You need 80-128 megs of RAM at least, according to the docs or you're going to have to pass a CLI-only option (I think there is one). I booted a 1.1 GHz Athlon which, at the moment, has 256 MB of memory and it didn't exactly smoke. And some game I clicked on brought the system to a crawl and it wouldn't even respond to 'kill' so I just rebooted Slack. Sweet *looking* and makes me wish *all* distros had similar hardware detection, but it's basically just a demo unless you move it to HD.
Yeah - I wouldn't expect it to zip along and some of the heavier apps may not work at all, but it should definitely run on that, assuming there are no other issues.
I booted it again today and there's actually some cool stuff on there. I haven't looked at how it's all put together, though. It just runs so I haven't needed to figure much out yet. Weird. *g*
Well. there is an english version -which I downloaded. But it runs with a german keyboard and some software is in german too, but cvan be configued! Not useful in a live distro. Hope they will cahnge it next...
But
Please try Morphix. IT is in English, has several versions and is based on Knoppix! www.morphix.org
You can get a Light-GUI version which will zip on 160MB RAM!!
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