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Posted on 10/16/2005 7:27:02 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The number of disks is a poor yardstick to measure by because 1) most people will not install everything 2) many people do not compile their own software and do not need to install the dev libraries 3) most people are not going to install all of the language and localization files.
I could go on, but you get the point. There are a lot of files that are optional during install. A simple Fedora workstation setup is not installing 4 full disks of files.
To the anti-open source types, yes! ;-P
One of the fun things with Knoppix is typing, at the boot prompt, "knoppix toram." Granted, you need a gig of RAM to pull this off...
Dumber people can use Linux? I KNEW there was a reason I liked it!
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If you like knoppix, try kanotix, closer to the bleeding edge...more recent drivers, etc.
Running Win2000 on an Intel 4 ... very fast.
Guess some OS's only need one processor to achieve mach speed.
I'm kidding, of course. =)
What will this do?
Am downloading. Thanks. Sure hope it's English. Not just German.
Wonder if it has drivers for the ULI 1689 chipset?
May look at it.
LMAO!!!!!
I did the same thing Saturday. It only took me an hour to download and install. I must have picked a FTP server with a fatter pipe.
I am really impressed by the thousands of software packages available, as well as the outright useability of it. There are some similarities to XP in that there are separate Documents, Pictures, Music, and Downloads folders for each user login. Open Office 2.0 is in some ways better than MS Office.
My only complaint is the geeky names given to most of the applications.
Hint for open source code wranglers:
Use self-explanitory names for your software, leave the weird names for your pet iguana.
That will load the entire contents of the Knoppix CD into your computer's RAM. It makes applications open super-fast, as they then don't have to be loaded off the live CD or a hard drive when you click on them. Once it's loaded, you can literally pop the CD out of the drive and continue normally.
You can do the same thing with DSL and Puppy on boxes with as little as 128 MB of RAM. Everything loads in the blink of an eye.
There's a boot time option, wiki has a fairly large english section, just click on brit flag.
It'll load Knoppix into memory rather than running it from the CD.
I had a problem with my dual boot Knoppix box. One too many power outages hosed part of the filesystem.
I tried running the file system recovery booting from the disk, however, it kept giving me an error saying the filesystem was in use.
In a moment of inspiration, I loaded the CD to RAM and was able to recover my system. I'm guessing the reason it wouldn't run from the CD is that the CD creates a temporary swap file on the HD.
You might want to discuss this with the distributors of Linspire. I'm sure they'd have an interesting story to tell.
Do remember that Linspire used to be called Lindows before Microsoft unleashed the flying monkeys on them.
It's safer to use an oddball name in our litigious society.
It would have never stood up in court.
It doesn't have to.
The purpose of a civil suit is not to win in court. It is to drive your victim into submission so that they settle.
Microsoft has pockets deep enough to drag out a civil action until a small software company will go bankrupt.
They have demonstrated this tactic several times.
Small OSS companies usually have no legal staff at all. Even a minor suit can bring them ruin. It is therefore in their best interests to name their products something that cannot possibly cross the path of a large commercial software house.
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