I have been using one called Knoppix, available at: <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html";> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html</a>
if anyone is interested. It runs KDE or GNOME, and has a bunch of programs, including openoffice, and The Gimp. I have had huge success with this on quite a range of systems, it automatically found most of the hardware and set it up properly. The iso's are mostly in Germany, but I have one if you would like to check it out, e-mail me. To see a list of packages in Knoppix, go to: <a href="http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/packages.txt";> http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/packages.txt</a> ------------------ Caleb Jorden TSLUG Treasurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] brandon wrote: > >I remembered reading about some of these this summer, but I couldn't >remember where I'd seen any of them at the meeting so I looked them up >again a few minutes ago. >One is called Virtual Linux and is at http://www.virtual-linux.org. >It is based on Mandrake modified to run from >a cd-rom drive on machines with or with out hard dirves. It includes a few >applications so that one can get an idea of what Linux is all about >without altering their hard drive, or even having to deal with a boot >loader. It might be useful to have around at the install fest because it >would allow people to see how Linux will work on their machine without a >big commitment, and it might give those helping with the install an >advanced warning if some kind of problem is going to emerge in the real >install. The other one that I found is called knoppix at >http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/. I haven't used either of these, so I'm >not sure how well eiter works at the moment. I will test them in the next >few days and see if they are relatively easy to deal with. > >Also as I was walking back I thought that a discussion of some system >administration tools might be useful for newbie types. For example SWAT vs >Webmin vs editing the config file for samba for example. Also I've got >cd's for Mandrake 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 as well as RH7.3. I have iso's for >Mandrake 8.2 and FreeBSD versions 4.4 and 4.6.2. >I don't currently have any of them shared, but plan to add >them to my list of samba shares in the next couple of days. My computer is >named brandonz with several alaises too. > >--Brandon > > > >
