knoppix owns me (and probably you)

[gh0st]

Anyone who has a USB thumb drive, a blank cd and a cd burner, has no excuses not to at least try knoppix - especially if you want the linux experience w/o the hassle of repartioning

www.knoppix.net

basically, download the single cd .iso, stick it in your drive, and your up and running! no installing or configuration - it automagically configures a huge amount of network, video, and sound cards. unfortunatly, the price for that is that all your configuration information is lost (ex, wallpaper) upon each reboot since it runs in ram. thats where the usb stick comes in, where you can create a persistent configuration. most applications can be stored on your ntfs or fat32 hard drive (windows partition) as knoppix can read from ntfs well. it comes with a huge amount of programs and is so useful i cant help but make a thread on it :|

 

[xLostx]

hey this does own me

 

[Revisedsoul]

already have it, been sitting on a cd, used it once, havent touched it since

 

[holydeadpenguins]

knoppix is useless, unless you have the version with enemy territory and ut2004 demo. Then you can stick it in at school.

 

[dys4iK]

knoppix is useless, unless you have the version with enemy territory and ut2004 demo. Then you can stick it in at school.

It does what it intended to do quite well--It's a linux demo, that's all.

 

[diluted]

I keep a copy of it around just in case Windows ****s up and I need to access files. Quite handy.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

The problem is it cant read ntfs, and you dont have permission to edit the files.

 

[Hazar]

it's pretty knifty, I've got it

it's also got memtest and some other diagnostic stuff on the disk which comes in handy

 

[diluted]

The problem is it cant read ntfs, and you dont have permission to edit the files.

It can read NTFS drives actually. Editing the files, no, but you could copy them to a floppy disk/cd and transfer them to another computer.

 

[Hazar]

yeah, it can read, just not write due to file permissions

 

[Zeus]

already have it, been sitting on a cd, used it once, havent touched it since

same. I see absolutly no point to using linux over windows. It just seems like so much of a hassle just to make the switch and there aren't really any big benefits for doing so anyway.

 

[Hazar]

it's for when windows crashes or generally screws up

 

[destrukt]

whoppix > knoppix.

(no, this is not a joke, some of you will understand).