On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:15, Not Zed wrote: > What is knoppix? "KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."
--from http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ It's pretty cool. Put the CD in the drive, boot, and about 3 minutes later you have a fully operational Linux system. The underlying packages they are derived from Debian's, but they configure the whole thing for you and use some pretty ingenious compression to get it all on a single CD-ROM. Comes with X, KDE, Open Office, GIMP, etc. Did I mention it's all on *one* CD-ROM The hardware detection is pretty awesome, as is the auto X configuration. Like I said, 3 minutes to working graphical desktop. (Someone demo'd it at linux.conf.au) AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
