Try Linux without installing it???
03 October 2002, 11:20 AM
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just downloading this now, seems a good way to try out Linux without having to install it 
Since there has been some interest in people wanting to get acquainted with
Linux in this string, here is one way for someone to try it without even
having any diskspace available to install it. Knoppix is a very well done
single CD Linux which runs right off the CD! You can literally walk up to
any Intel box which can boot off a CD, and have Knoppix running in a 5
minutes with no installation!
Here are some features of Knoppix:
* KDE desktop default, GNOME available
* OpenOffice integrated into desktop
* any per-system configuration you do via the GUI, can be saved on a floppy
via a GUI, so the next time you boot off the Knoppix CD, you can recover the
configured state
* the disks on the system you are running, appear as icons on the desktop.
Clicking on them, mounts them (regardless of whether they are FAT, NTFS,
Linux ext) and opens a graphical file browser on top directory. Clicking on
a .xls file brings up the Excel spreadsheet in OpenOffice. Same for .doc,
.ppt files.
* my wireless card on my M700 laptop works on my home network out of the box
* comes with a built-in PXE server; which when configured with a GUI
interface, allows any system on the network to boot Knoppix off the first
system; I tested this out, and it works like a charm; hence you can boot one
system with the Knoppix CD, and have a whole bunch of other systems boot
diskless off that one system.
* is chockfull of software (about 2 GB worth, all on a 700 MB CD); is
updated roughly every two weeks with the latest versions of packages
* is full of rescue tools; a sales rep in my area was told by IM that her
disk was dead and her data unrecoverable; I booted her laptop with Knoppix,
mounted her NTFS partitions, and successfully copied all her data off to
another machine on the network. Copying of the data did require me to
resort to the command line and enter Unix geek mode.
* comes in German and English versions (make sure you download the right one)
* is based on the Debian Linux distribution, which for years has been
recognized by the Linux community as the most stable and thoroughly tested
distribution.
It may be downloaded from:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Be aware that it is too big to fit on a 650 MB CD-R. You will need a 700 MB
CD-R.
Since there has been some interest in people wanting to get acquainted with
Linux in this string, here is one way for someone to try it without even
having any diskspace available to install it. Knoppix is a very well done
single CD Linux which runs right off the CD! You can literally walk up to
any Intel box which can boot off a CD, and have Knoppix running in a 5
minutes with no installation!
Here are some features of Knoppix:
* KDE desktop default, GNOME available
* OpenOffice integrated into desktop
* any per-system configuration you do via the GUI, can be saved on a floppy
via a GUI, so the next time you boot off the Knoppix CD, you can recover the
configured state
* the disks on the system you are running, appear as icons on the desktop.
Clicking on them, mounts them (regardless of whether they are FAT, NTFS,
Linux ext) and opens a graphical file browser on top directory. Clicking on
a .xls file brings up the Excel spreadsheet in OpenOffice. Same for .doc,
.ppt files.
* my wireless card on my M700 laptop works on my home network out of the box
* comes with a built-in PXE server; which when configured with a GUI
interface, allows any system on the network to boot Knoppix off the first
system; I tested this out, and it works like a charm; hence you can boot one
system with the Knoppix CD, and have a whole bunch of other systems boot
diskless off that one system.
* is chockfull of software (about 2 GB worth, all on a 700 MB CD); is
updated roughly every two weeks with the latest versions of packages
* is full of rescue tools; a sales rep in my area was told by IM that her
disk was dead and her data unrecoverable; I booted her laptop with Knoppix,
mounted her NTFS partitions, and successfully copied all her data off to
another machine on the network. Copying of the data did require me to
resort to the command line and enter Unix geek mode.
* comes in German and English versions (make sure you download the right one)
* is based on the Debian Linux distribution, which for years has been
recognized by the Linux community as the most stable and thoroughly tested
distribution.
It may be downloaded from:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Be aware that it is too big to fit on a 650 MB CD-R. You will need a 700 MB
CD-R.
03 October 2002, 12:21 PM
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