Sounds very interesting. Downloading it now, so it should be available in the BRLUG CD Library later today.
Thanks, John Hebert --- "Adam J. Melancon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you all know, I am a huge fan of cygwin... but... > I just found the > coolest CD EVER! > About a year ago a friend of mine from the Deridder > library gave me a > bootable copy of linux on a CD-R called Knoppix. It > was at version 1.3 at > the time and was slow and rough around the edges. > Well, the other day I saw > Knoppix on slashdot and decide to see how updated it > was. > Long story short. IT'S THE COOLEST BOOTABLE VERSION > OF LINUX EVER! > This thing has everything and the kitchen sink in > it. I boot to it on my > laptop all the time. It detects my sound card, my > video, and my linksys > network card flawlessly. (it also found my dads > wireless linksys card) > It has tons of programs in it like: > kde 3.0, gnome, wmaker, icewm, ethereal, open > office, vncviewer, ssh, wine > (it ran internet explorer and publisher 98!), gimp, > much too many to list... > > It's not like the suse live eval, this does not even > touch your hard drive. > As a matter of fact, last week my hard drive died on > me and I used this to > recover the partition that had my documents on it to > a networked computer. > And until I could get a new drive I just booted to > this and used it as my > main desktop for a few days. It can mount your hard > drive for you by > clicking on an icon on the desktop (it mounts it > read only so newbies dont > trash the drive :) more experienced people can mount > it read/write. > > If you want to give people a simple way to test out > linux without them > having to repartition and reinstall, and give them a > reason to switch, hand > out TONS of these cd's. Heck this cd has cooler > stuff than my redhat 7.1 > box at home. It also freaks people out when you say > "want to see linux", > and you pop this in their cd drive and reboot to > linux in about 60 seconds! > I made my dad a copy and also some younger guys here > in Abbeville. He showed > some of his friends and now they all want copies. > > Here is the site. Hand these things out like there > is no tomorrow. > http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html > If anyone tries/tried it, I'd like to know opinions > on this distro. > :) > > I guess it wasn't long story short... sorry, got > carried away. > > Quotes from the site: > > 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. > > The following Highlights are available in version > 3.1 of this Debian-based > (www.debian.org) CD: > Linux-Kernel 2.4.x > KDE V3.0.2 as the standard desktop with K Office and > the Konqueror > WWW-browser konqueror > X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg > Vorbis Audio player and > xine > Internet connection software kppp,pppoeconf (DSL) > and isdn-config > Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) Version 1.2 > utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even > for other operating > systems > network and security analysis tools for network > administrators > OpenOffice(TM), the GPL-developed version of the > well-known StarOffice(TM) > office suite > many programming languages, development tools > (including kdevelop) and > libraries for developers > in total more than 900 installed software packages > with over 2000 executable > user programs, utilities, and games > > Adam J. Melancon > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN > Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
