Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works

Cool it, Jon.  He's talking about Knoppix.
bruce


On Friday 20 December 2002 12:02 am, you wrote:
> That's baloney!  I've run X in 8mb before, and I'm sure it
> could be configured to run in less.
>
> -- Jonathan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Holmes" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:22 PM
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off of
> CD Works
>
> > index.html  choose "en" it explains that anything less than
> > 64meg of ram
>
> will not support xwindows.
>
> > mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bruce [SMTP:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:39 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off
> > of CD  Works
> >
> > On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:48 am, you wrote:
> > >Don't make me come down there and bitch slap you! ;)
> > >
> > > Actually, you should be surprised it ran at all, since
> > > the docs state quite plainly not to even TRY to run
> > > Knoppix and X with less than 90 megs of memory.
> >
> > Please don't hit me.  I did look for something called
> > "requirements" and didn't find it.  Most of the docs I
> > found were in German.  I learned that "inhaltsvertzeichnis"
> > means table of contents.
> >
> > The last paragraph of my "review" does say I was quite
> > impressed.  And I was.  I believe Knoppix is a big step
> > forward in ease of installation.  As I recall, it only
> > asked me one question about the hardware - giving a choice
> > of no of characters per line and lines per screen.  I chose
> > 80x25 from about 10 choices.  Everything else it found on
> > its own.
> >
> > A number of attributes can be assigned or changed at boot
> > time - I didn't study these or try any of them.  Maybe I
> > could have had a better screen - the monitor I was using is
> > 1024x768 capable.
> >
> > I believe we will see more of Knoppix.
> > bruce
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