Linux For Sissies
Story over the weekend on slashdot about the Knoppix linux system on a cd. Sounded interesting so I downloaded and burned a couple. Pretty neat. Maybe I will give them out for christmas.
Takes a little longer to boot than if Linux were installed on the hard drive but that's because it's decompressing software from the cd. Somehow they manage to fit 1.7 gigs of software on a 700 meg cd. It's a lot of software on one cd.
It correctly identified everything in my system --soundcard, cd burner, video card, monitor, etc. Without any configuration hassles I was able to:
- surf (mozilla, galeon, dillo, konq)
- play mp3s (and ogg)
- watch movies (divx even!)
- burn cds
- chat on irc
- login to icq
- edit pictures using gimp
- play chess on F.I.C.S. (using my account)
- run apache web server
- use webmin filemanager java applet in mozilla
KDE 3.0 is nice. Seems to be faster than the previous version --and it's just neat to look at.
The cd would make a great intro to Linux --esp. to help increase awareness of all the great free software that is available. Screenshots:
snap1 |snap2 |snap3 |snap4 |snap5 | charisma 1 | charisma 2
Slashdot: Bootable Linux Demo Distro - Knoppix
KNOPPIX Linux Live CD (click the flag for english...)
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Richard http://lubrichs.mine.nu/ 2 things -
. . . what is an 'audacity' file (smile)
. . . and is the 'knoppix 1' pic capture - really your bedroom / loft (hehe)
you know - it all looks quite impressive and i really like that KSnapshot program . . .
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