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 be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.
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KNOPPIX may have evolved, disappeared, or gone extinct. Do not assume that the information listed below are fresher than our mammoth friend. About KNOPPIX8.1
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8.1
- https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
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GPL
Latest version
8.1
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1 commentKNOPPIX
What can I say, I tried Knoppix a year or so ago and think it's really cool. It's got loads of features and is very powerful as far as usefulness and tools go... it's good for Secure Communications, Word processing, Office work or Web browsing, Multimedia and Software/Web development and it just keeps getting better with every realease. It's amazing how well made it is and it's got all the Unix/Linux style command-line functionalities that save time and don't waste your precious CPU cycles like the commercial and often over graphically challenged Operating systems like Microsoft Windows, but we love the look sometimes for ease of use or just the beauty of colour. Knoppix has a fantastic Graphical User Interface (GUI) that's more flexible and you can run a lot of stuff with or without the GUI, and that's one of the great things about it, you can configure almost everything you like. I can't say enough about how good it is. Andrew Watkins