Knoppix Linux
While Knoppix is known primarily as a live CD or DVD, you can install it on a hard drive for use as a desktop system as well.
The distribution, named after developer Klaus Knopper, first appearedin 2003. It's based on Debian, and uses the KDE desktop environment.
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can beused as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted andused as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is notnecessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-flydecompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable softwareinstalled on it.
The following Highlights are available in this Debian-based (www.debian.org) CD:
- Linux-Kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x
- KDE as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror WWW-browser konqueror
- X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio player and xine
- Internet connection software kppp,pppoeconf (DSL) and isdn-config
- Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
- utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems
- network and security analysis tools for network administrators
- OpenOffice(TM), the GPL-developed version of the well-known StarOffice(TM) office suite
- many programming languages, development tools (including kdevelop) and libraries for developers
- in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs, utilities, and
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