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Knoppix, a Linux bootable CD with a full GUI

By jeremy - Posted on 05 August 2004

While running into problems with a few of my computers (or ones I support for non-profits) where I was not be able to get it to boot or a piece of hardware wasn't working quite right, the name Knoppix popped into my head, which is a linux distro that runs quite nicely off a bottable CD. All that is need is to go to their website, download a .iso file and burn it to a CD.

In every case Knoppix worked flawlessly when I tried it;

  • I confirmed I was having a OS configuration problem and not a hardware problem;

  • I was able to use samba to share the internal harddrives of a Win98 box that wouldn't boot out to another Windows box so I could copy the useful data off.
  • Knoppix has even been able to boot systems that the Windows 2000 installer CD wasn't able to, and we will be installing Linux inplace of Windows on this hardware for this reason.

    I haven't used it much as a desktop OS, but it appears to have all the features you might expect and by using a RAM disk and network mounted drives this might be a fairly functional system. Especially when the internal harddrive of your laptop dies on a trip. I'm going to give it a shot on my mom's computer to see if she likes it and on a NetPC to see if I can actually put the hardware to use.

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