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| DATE | 2002-08-08 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Show 'em Knoppix
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For those you haven't seen Knoppix yet, I highly recommend it. Hardware
detection is excellent and up to date software....
Boot and loading speed is nothing short of amazing. ....
Regards,
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Johnson [mailto:seth.johnson-at-realmeasures.dyndns.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 8:06 AM
To: hangout-at-nylxs.com; ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com
Subject: [hangout] Show 'em Knoppix!
(Forwarded from Phoenix LUG list)
-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 10:45:47 -0700
From: Dennis Kibbe
So, your over at a buddy's place on a Saturday night having
a few brews and pizza, when he asks you about Linux.
You pull out a CD, insert it into HIS computer and within
two minutes he's jivin' to some tunes and exploring the KDE3 desktop -
dazzled by all the eye candy! You leave him the CD, of course, so he can
explore Open Office 1.01, GIMP 1.2, Bluefish, Mozilla, Python, WINE, and
lots more. And the next day he's bragging 'cause he's running Linux, too!
What Knoppix is, is a Linux distro that runs entirely from
the CD and a file system created on a RAM disk nothing is
put on the hard drive nor is the installed OS disturbed at
all.
This isn't new, of course, but what makes Knoppix different
is that it is a lot faster that SuSE LiveEval and much more modern than
DemoLinux.
Lots and lots of current packages (over 900) lets you
explore KOfiice, Open Office, OCR software, scanners and digital cameras,
development languages like Python and KDevelop, too. Even if you run another
distro now you can explore some packages you before actullay installing them
on your computer - maybe Karbon 14 (vector graphics) or Scribus (DTP).
Knoppix is internationalized, too. Click the flag on the
right side of the panel to switch the keyboard from English
to German to French!
And with lots of eye candy (less that a second after booting there's a
graphic) it dazzles!
Knoppix is useful for checking out the hardware before installing a distro
that has less thorough hardware detection.
Anyway, I think you get the picture. Knoppix is what I'm
using to show off Linux at its best!
You can find Knoppix at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ .
There is a link at the top of the page to the English
language page, if you must.
Dennis Kibbe
PS - Sorry, I'll in my "Madison Avenue" mode.
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