This would be very cool if big companies such as Dell, HP-Compaq, Gateway and the like shiped CD's like this with their PC's.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Knoppix > Another German Live CD hey. Have you compared it to SuSE 8.0 Live Eval.? I'm > just wondering if you think it's better than the SuSE version or not. > > Jesse > > Quoting Jeffrey Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 > > > > >
