Re: [ossig] Linux live cds - "Unix is hard to install"

[Ditesh Kumar <ditesh@ameba6.com>]

> Knoppix is perhaps the most famous
> (http://www.knoppix.org/)
> It now takes less time to boot than it did before. It
> really is a full-featured linux. Unbelievable to many
> - until you boot it on their PCs! :-)

I've heard from a student in Multimedia University that at least one of
the comp sci related class in the Engineering faculty uses Knoppix
because the faculty does not have sufficient licenses for the MS
Visual-X products. Now, if only the IT faculty switches over :-)

>From what I hear also, Knoppix is rather popular among the students, due
to the fact that:

a) KDE looks really really polished on the desktop (and Gnome does too,
I might add), and
b) The idea of using a CD to carry around an OS.

(b) is a bit mindblowing to those who have never been exposed to the
concept of live cds.

-- 
Ditesh Kumar
Ameba6 Solutions Sdn. Bhd.

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin." 	- John Von Neumann


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