Knoppix

jeffro · 03-27-2003, 05:42 AM

I just tried the new release of Knoppix Linux http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and I have to say I am blown away.

I was just messing around and I decided to give it a try on my wife's machine. I popped in the 3.2 CD rebooted and went back to what I was doing at my computer. About 3 minutes later I turned around and there was KDE 3.1 just sitting there waiting to be used! It booted up almost as fast as a standard Linux installation on the HDD. It hadn't asked me any questions, made me make any decisions, and it just booted directly into KDE. I couldn't believe it! From my exprerience with Linux over the last 5 years I knew if an install went that flawlessly, something had to be screwed up, but everything was working!!

Sound (SBLive! Value): detected and working correctly immediately

Video (Voodoo Banshee): defaults to 1024x768, working immediatly.

Network (SMC 1121): Defaults to DHCP but you can change it through a Knoppix config app. Working immediatly

Devices (MS USB Mouse, USB Keyboard, CDROM): All detected and working immediatly

Apps: Loads! Just about every popular open source app was installed and working correctly (that I had time to try)

Loading time is a little long due to everything having to be loaded off the CD but I didn't find anything glaringly wrong! I will post more as I have time to test/play with it.

jeffro

Ilya020 · 03-27-2003, 06:19 AM

My Friends HDD just failed and he hase been running knoppix for about a week. He also has rave reviews about it. Hmmm........

Ilya.

saline · 03-27-2003, 08:45 AM

I would really love to hear more about this, I'm looking for distros to try over the rapidly approaching summer.

Thanks!

Hrqls · 03-28-2003, 04:20 AM

hmm seems that you have quite some experience with linux ... could you please have a look at : http://www.codenewbie.com/forum/show...p?threadid=955