[Mean Daddy]

You can download a verion of Knoppix on your computer for free, burn it on CD and have a full fledged OS boot up directly from your CD drive. Features include a browser, office type applications etc.

[erinjohn]

I was a day late and dolloar short on the post. Knoopix does work great though.

JTG

[B Knotts]

I use Knoppix from time to time. Recently, my 1-1/2 year old son managed to freeze up my machine (I think by clobbering it), and I had a horked xfs partition, that mount(8) could not deal with.

I grabbed my Knoppix CD out of the trunk and fixed the problem within a few minutes after remembering that I had it.

Great for laptops, too!