I’ve recently spent a small amount of time playing around with both the SuSe 8.2 Live Eval, and Knoppix 7-26-03, so I thought I’d pass along my observations…

Both default you into KDE and have a similar selection of apps (Like OpenOffice, Mozilla, the GIMP etc).  Knoppix happens to be based of Debian.

There were a couple of things I liked about Knoppix.  The first is that you don’t have to go through all the YaST screens when you boot, Knoppix just boots right up to KDE and logs you on as user knoppix.  The other neat thing about Knoppix is that you can save your configuration and home directory of the size you specify on a USB flash drive.  With SuSE if you want to save your configuration/home dir it creates a 100MB file on your hard drive (and another 100MB for swap if you want).  With Knoppix you can carry a cheap ($10 after rebate) 64MB USB flash drive around with you and a Knoppix CD and boot a PC into your personal environment without touching the hard disk. 

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From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Stephen C. Daukas
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:23 PM
To: wlug@mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

Is introducing yet-another-flavor-of-linux useful?  I understand what you are trying to achieve, but one of the first questions that came to my mind was "what is the difference between Knoppix and a regular Linux distro"?  (The first was actually "what the hell is Knopix"!)  Will it be confusing to the people looking at is verusus what they see when they look at SuSe, Red Hat, etc.?

Andy Stewart wrote:

On Monday 01 September 2003 4:52 pm, albutler33@netscape.net wrote:
 

Andy,
 
I think a great topic especially for the new students would be "Fast Track
to Linux" where you introduce the GNOME and KDE desktops and a few of your
favorite tools and utilities.
 
Al Butler
 

 
HI Al,
 
My most current thoughts are centered on Linux, its origins, the GPL, 
WLUG/WPILA, and then segue into single CD demo distributions for folks who 
want to "kick the tires", as it were, without fully committing their hard 
drives to Linux.  
 
One such single CD demo distribution is Knoppix, which does have KDE (and 
GNOME?).  Once Knoppix is running, many things could be demonstrated.  If I 
go with this idea, I'd want to have copies of the Knoppix CD available for 
people to take home, and hopefully they would try it at their leisure.
 
How does that sound?  Do people have additional ideas?  Let's hear them!  :-)
 
Later,
 
Andy
 
 
 

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