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I don't think I have heard anything about Knoppix in the last 10 years or so, and it's such a pity. This was the first Linux I used at home, back in 2003. I had
by gordaco 8y ago
I don't think I have heard anything about Knoppix in the last 10 years or so, and it's such a pity. This was the first Linux I used at home, back in 2003. I had to use both a CD and a floppy to boot it, IIRC (apparently certain older BIOS didn't allow booting from CD at the time, but I might be wrong).
Like some commenters say, it was both a "safe" gateway to Linux, and a lifesaver when hard disks refused to work properly.
- Ocerge 8y agoYep, I had a couple of CD sleeves filled with Knoppix and Mandrake somewhere around 2003. I was ~13 and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but it felt fun anyway.
- joombaga 8y agoI didn't have a CD burner, so I had it on ~11 floppy disks.
- ehnto 8y agoLikewise, although the boot cd alone worked for me. I remember booting it up on the school PCs and feeling super deviant. It definitely helped me on my journey to linux as a daily driver.
- JJMcJ 8y agoMy experience as well. Boot off a floppy, external disk drive because the one PC we had at the time was shared so I didn't want to mess with the boot or partitioning. I got a lot done with that setup.
- geofft 8y agoKnoppix is basically a Debian derivative with good live CD support, and Ubuntu filled that role very well once it got started. It's one of the mixed blessings of free software that if a project does something well, it's easy to see what it does and clone it. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=knoppix,ubuntu https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=knoppix,...
- mbubb 8y agoyes - specifically the 'livecd'