KNOPPIX 6.7.0 / ADRIANE 1.4 - Live CD / DVD
General information about Microknoppix
"Microknoppix" is a complete rewrite of the KNOPPIX boot system from
version 6.0 and up, with the following features: [Picture of LXDE
destop with compiz]
High compatibility with its Debian base: Aside from configuration
files, nothing gets changed in Debians standard installation.
Accellerated boot procedure: Independently from the usual SysV
bootscripts, multiple tasks of system initialization are run in
parallel, so that interactive desktops are reached very fast.
LXDE is used as graphical environment, which is a very slim and
fast desktop with extremely short starttime and low resource
requirements. Because of its GTK2 base, LXDE works together nicely
with screenreader Orca.
Amount of installed software has been greatly reduced in the
CD-version, so that custom remasters based on CD are possible again.
On the DVD edition, KDE4 and Gnome with many applications originating
from these popular desktops are available.
Network configuration is being handled by NetworkManager with
nm-applet in graphics mode, and textual GUIs in textmode (compatible
to Debians /etc/network/interfaces specification).
A persistent image for saving personal settings and additionally
installed programs, KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img, is supported on the boot
device, optionally encrypted with AES/256bit. In general, installation
as live system on flash disk is recommended.
New about the 6.7 version
[knoppix bootscreen] [knoppix booting] [knoppix desktop]
Version 6.7 has been updated from Debian/squeeze with the usual
picks from Debian "testing" and "unstable", and uses Kernel 2.6.39.3
and xorg 7.6 for supporting currentmost computer hardware.
-> software list CD...
-> software list DVD...
experimental free Nouveau graphics modules supporting NVidia
cards, acellerated graphics via kernel mode settings (KMS),
OpenOffice -> LibreOffice 3.3.3,
Chromium 12.0.742.112 Web Browser,
Optional 64-bit Kernel via boot option "knoppix64", supporting
systems with more than 4GB of RAM and chroot to 64-bit installations
for system rescue tasks (DVD version only).
New boot option (example) "bootfrom=/dev/sda1/knoppix-test.iso",
for mounting the Knoppix compressed file system from a stored iso file
directly.
Boot option "grub", for starting a bootloader shell in system rescue tasks.
ADRIANE: Updated to version 1.4 of the non-visual desktop
framework, now using cuneiform as engine for text recognition of
scanned texts, enhanced support for several cellphone models via gammu
(SMS function).
More notes
Chromium 12.x as default browser (additionally Firefox/Iceweasel
5.0 on the DVD edition): The open source version of the well known
"webkit" based browser is especially iseful for small displays and
tablets, and very quick in page rendering. In Knoppix, for (maybe
exaggerated?) security considerations, active contents and plugins are
disabled by default. This can be changed with a mouseclick - per-page
in the browsers address bar, and in general in the browsers settings.
Because of its proprietary license, there is no "flash plugin"
installed in the freely distributable version of Knoppix, but
interested individuals can download and install flash easily using the
"Settings" -> "Install additional software" menu entry.
Because installed programs (especially Libreoffice) tend to grow
in size with each new version, sadly, we had to remove some packages
from the small CD edition in order to still fit within 700MB. These
are the kernel headers (which are still present on the DVD edition for
compiling third-party kernel modules), the graphical mail client
icedove, the game frozen bubble, and some development libraries.
ADRIANE
[Penguin with sunglasses]
A.D.R.I.A.N.E. (Audio Desktop Reference Implementation And Networking
Environment) is a talking menu system, which is supposed to make work
and internet access easier for computer beginners, even if they have
no sight contact to the computers monitor. A graphical environment
with also talking programs and arbitrary magnification using
compiz-fusion, is another option.
CD / USB Versions - which files do I need?
The current public beta release of KNOPPIX 6.7.0 CD and DVD is
available in different variants for download at the Knoppix-Mirrors.
http://knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
http://knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix67-en.html
Best
A. Mani
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