Thought you might find this interesting for those of you wearing the linux advocate 
hats.  I found this snazzy distribution called Knoppix.  It runs entirely off the CD 
and includes Kernel 2.4, KDE 3, XMMS, Gimp, OpenOffice, Networking, Printing, 
Development tools, tonnes of games, etc.  In all a very nice demo CD + network client 
+ user machine that doesn't need to be installed at all.   It even has some phenomenal 
hardware detection built in.  

I put my Knoppix CD into my laptop (wierd hardware) and it booted into X with sound 
and all my PCMCIA hardware and brought up my network interface using DHCP.  From there 
I can browse the net / email / play games / etc.  It was all very impressive.

Just though you may be interested.   The website is http://www.knoppix.org.  If anyone 
would like to try it and needs a copy of the CD just let me know and I can bring them 
to the BBQ or next meeting.

Jeff

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