Re: Knoppix the reanimator // what to take out for 3.4

Hallo,

> Knoppix brought my laptop back to life as well - got exactly the same
> problem, dodgy IDE connector which I tried to get fixed but to no
> avail:(
> 
> So with Knoppix I was able to use the machine immediately with the
> live CD, and then later I installed to an external firewire drive once
> I'd learnt how to boot using the CD and pivot_root to the root file
> system on sda1.  Try doing that with windows ;)
> 
> WRT suggestions on what should go, I too think that one of the office
> suites should be dropped (but which one, Koffice?).  

All except OpenOffice!

> compelling reasons for not ditching the 2.4 kernel?  I think some (if
> not all) of the games should stay - I mention them as some people have

Not at all! I am not into games, but what I saw on Win, was _much_
better. You can not impress a school boy or girl with linuxgames. Some
are good if you are bored, but that's it. I do not think there is a game
that can cope with its Win counterpart (although they are mostly free,
but that does not impress a 10 year old boy).

> said they're unnecessary.  I disagree - they have to be the best way
> of getting certain audiences initially interested in Knoppix and
> GNU/Linux. BTW on knoppix.net we are now on page 16 of the discussion
> on what could be removed
> <http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9579&start=225>. 
> 
> Anyway for me personally, I'll be installing to HD and so can apt-get
> install anything missing afterwards - what I'm really after is the new
> kernel :)
> 
> Cheers everyone, especially Klaus, looking forward to the new Knoppix
> when it's *ready* (already I've grown more patient - no more checking
> the knoppix.net or the FTP sites every few hours).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> desiderata (was Re: [debian-knoppix] Is Knoppix dead?) 
> Andrea Trentini [email protected] 
> Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:56:18 +0200 
> 
> Nicholas Vettese wrote:
> > If you are installing Knoppix to a hard drive, what is the
> > difference?
> 
> > Just do an apt-get, and you will be good to go.  Also, if you will
> > not
> 
> > be installing it to a hard drive, can't you create a persistent 
> > directory and apt-get it from there?
> 
> but you're not always connected ;)
> 
> also, I use Knoppix as an operating system to revitalize
> a notebook with a broken IDE connector (on the MB, it's
> not replaceable without swapping the MB itself)
> so that it's still useable as a standard notebook
> (almost never connected to the Net)
> so I'm trying to vote for applications I currently
> use... ;)
> 
> bye
> 
> -- 
> George Orwell was an optimist.
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Bye, bye

Achim

Knoppix is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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