[luau] KNOPPIX LINUX ON TECHTV

[W. Wayne Liauh]

B/c Knoppix runs on ramdisk and decompresses files from CDROM on the 
fly, its speed depends, to a much greater extent, on CPU speed and the 
amount of RAM.

I ran it on my 1GHz Athlon with 256 MB ram and 2000+ Athlon XP with 512 
MB.  Both ran almost as fast as Red Hat 8.0 on their respective hard 
disks (and both systems are very fast).  It actually runs faster on my 
HP xh455 (900 MHz Athlon 4 with 256 MB ram.

There are also a number of bootup options.  With a low-resource system 
such as PII-200 with 64 MB ram, you can boot into text mode.  Of course, 
if you have your own ftp or you don't mind using a floppy disc, you can 
save your configuration as well as data files either on-line of in your 
floppy, then you will have a GUI-based OS (an entire OS) that can 
literally travel with you.  (Now, I hope you will tell this to your 
Windows-using friends/bosses/associates.)

Another great advantage of Knoppix is that you can load it into a hard 
disk (a very convenient way to install a Debian system), make 
modifications, then re-masterize it into a CD.  At the present time, 
Knoppix only has a limited number of language options.  Inclusion of 
Chinese and Japanese as a bootup option will be a great plus for Hawaii.




yuser at hi.net wrote:

>I've been messing with it on and off for about two weeks now.  Seems to 
>run very well on my Intel P3 1Ghz and Intel P4 1.7Ghz with 512MB 
>ram but a dog on my P200 with only 64MB.  I have not tried it on any 
>laptops yet.  I've never used KDE so I have nothing to compare it to.
>Bottom line it is a great concept and a very workable package.  
>Two of the Windows admins at my job wanted a copy to mess with 
>themselves.  I had to explain the /dev/hdX concept but they seemed fine 
>after that.    
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>On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jason Smallwood wrote:
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>>Had caught the following link on TECH TV's web site regarding KNOPPIX
>>LINUX.  
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