[LUGSB] Re: knoppix

[Mark Drago]

Knoppix kicks ass.  I'm actually using a version of knoppix right now. 
 Well, I've got the girls that live across the hall from me using it. 
 They really like the game ksokoban that I have on my computer and they 
wanted a way to play it on their own.  After they tried and disliked 
some windows based sokoban games, I showed them knoppix which lets them 
play ksokoban on their own machines.  The only problem is saving their 
progress after restarting but I showed them how to back up their 
ksokobanrc file onto one of my machines.  Knoppix even comes with 
OpenOffice installed.  I was thinking that the club could hand out 
copies of knoppix to kids that show interest in linux but haven't really 
had a chance to see it yet.  It does a very good job of showing off the 
strong points of linux, and to do that from a CD and without a swap 
partition is really impressive.  Oh, I'm writing this email from the P90 
laptop.  It's kind of slow, but definitely usable.  I'm using blackbox 
as a WM, I'll probably switch to fluxbox in a bit.  I've got to get X 
configured better also...I've only got 8bit color now.  But, spoofing 
the MAC address worked.  :o)

Harlan Crystal wrote:

>I know you already found a solution but I found this interesting:
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>I hyde I: remember when you were asking for debian that runs off a cd
>Harlan Crystal: yea
>I hyde I: yea, that's knoppix
>I hyde I: it boots into kde off the cd
>Harlan Crystal: works fully?
>I hyde I: yea, works great
>Harlan Crystal: like QNX?
>I hyde I: yea
>Harlan Crystal: cool.
>I hyde I: i mean, works well considering
>Harlan Crystal: you have to set up a bunch of config shit once its up?
>I hyde I: nah
>I hyde I: nothing
>I hyde I: it was cool
>I hyde I: i booted hyde with it
>Harlan Crystal: wow
>Harlan Crystal: hardware dection?
>I hyde I: and it mounted all my drives read-only and put icons on the
>kde desktop
>I hyde I: yea
>I hyde I: everything
>I hyde I: sound
>I hyde I: video
>I hyde I: no xv of course...
>I hyde I: nvidia is proprietary
>I hyde I: but if it were radeon i'd assume it works
>Harlan Crystal: word
>I hyde I: got network off dhcp
>I hyde I: konqueror browser
>I hyde I: no mozilla or anything but with a 700mb limit what do you
>expect
>Harlan Crystal: yea
>I hyde I: otherwise it's hot
>I hyde I: i wanna try it at home in jersey
>Harlan Crystal: iso from www.linuxiso.org?
>I hyde I: nah
>I hyde I: hold on
>I hyde I: there was a /. about it
>I hyde I: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/02/1729247.shtml?tid=90
>Harlan Crystal: cool
>Harlan Crystal: someone was jsut asking about something that would need
>this today
>I hyde I: they def. did a good job with it
>I hyde I: like i don't think i could've asked for more out of 700mb
>I hyde I: it's even debian based
>I hyde I: it's set up user friendly even
>I hyde I: like, all the menu's are transparant
>I hyde I: and the term opens up tinted
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