Show 'em Knoppix!

[Dennis Kibbe]

So, your over at a buddy's place on a Saturday night having a few brews and 
pizza, when he asks you about Linux.

You pull out a CD, insert it into HIS computer and within two minutes he's 
jivin' to some tunes and exploring the KDE3 desktop - dazzled by all the eye 
candy! You leave him the CD, of course, so he can explore Open Office 1.01, 
GIMP 1.2, Bluefish, Mozilla, Python, WINE, and lots more. And the next day 
he's bragging 'cause he's running Linux, too!

What Knoppix is, is a Linux distro that runs entirely from the CD and a file 
system created on a RAM disk nothing is put on the hard drive nor is the 
installed OS disturbed at all. 

This isn't new, of course, but what makes Knoppix different is that it is a 
lot faster that SuSE LiveEval and much more modern than DemoLinux.

Lots and lots of current packages (over 900) lets you explore KOfiice, Open 
Office, OCR software, scanners and digital cameras, development languages 
like Python and KDevelop, too. Even if you run another distro now you can 
explore some packages you before actullay installing them on your computer -  
maybe Karbon 14 (vector graphics) or Scribus (DTP). 

Knoppix is internationalized, too. Click the flag on the right side of the 
panel to switch the keyboard from English to German to French!

And with lots of eye candy (less that a second after booting there's a 
graphic) it dazzles!

Knoppix is useful for checking out the hardware before installing a distro 
that has less thorough hardware detection.

Anyway, I think you get the picture. Knoppix is what I'm using to show off 
Linux at its best!

You can find Knoppix at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ . There is a link at 
the top of the page to the English language page, if you must. <g>


Dennis Kibbe
PS - Sorry, I'll in my "Madison Avenue" mode. <g>