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    Monday, I used a giftcard to purchase, "Knoppix Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools," by Kyle Rankin. The book includes a CD-Rom with version 3.4 of Knoppix Linux. A little old, as they're up to something like 3.7 now. I'm using it on an old notebook I have right now, and using the Mozilla web browser.

    Why would you want to do this? Well, for one thing, it's difficult for Windows viruses to run when you're not running Windows. More info at

    http://www.knoppix.org

    If you have enough RAM, the contents of the CD-Rom can actually be copied into RAM when it first boots. And while you need a minimum of one gigabyte of RAM for this option, it is supposed to run much faster. A much smaller variant is Damn Small Linux at

    http://www.damnsmalllinux.org


    which is only 50MB total, and can be transferred into 256MB of RAM.

    However, if I wanted to run Linux directly from RAM, and if I had a 256MB RAM system, I'd probably opt for Feather Linux which is slightly over a 100MB download. This because Feather, a variant of DSL("Damn Small Linux") includes the Firefox browser, while DSL does not. BTW, you can purchase DSL on a business-card-sized CD-Rom, or already installed on a USB flash drive if your system can boot from a USB device. Or simply download and burn a CD. Btw, Feather also has a USB-bootable version.

    Feather Linux at

    http://www.featherlinux.berlios.de



    I know this will not appeal to everyone, but I'm looking for every possible wayI can find to avoid viruses, etc. Plus, it's interesting to learn & use a different operating system without having to alter the harddrive Windows resides upon. Have fun!


    PhaedrusZ

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    Default Re: Knoppix Linux-run a different operating system directly from your CD-Rom drive.

    Bitchin,

    Try a MAC with OX 10 next...

    I never knew life could be this good with out Windows.

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    Default Re: Knoppix Linux-run a different operating system directly from your CD-Rom drive.

    Linux....Hmmm, why does this thread or these words sound familiar?

    Anyway, cool enough.

    Pamela

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    Default Re: Knoppix Linux-run a different operating system directly from your CD-Rom drive.

    Quote Originally Posted by madgrad
    Bitchin,

    Try a MAC with OX 10 next...

    I never knew life could be this good with out Windows.
    Quote Originally Posted by madgrad
    Bitchin,

    Try a MAC with OX 10 next...

    I never knew life could be this good with out Windows.
    I've owned several Macs in the past, but the last Apple OS I've used regulaly was 8.0...I did have a chance to try out 10.2 on a friend's iMac. Impressive enough that I might purchase one of the new Macminis in the future, but not until Apple bumps up the RAM to 512 from 256 meg for the $499 base price.

    I did get an older version of Feather Linux booting from my USB flash drive just yesterday, but will have to download the newest version as, IIRC, it already has the Firefox browser installed, which is not true of the older versions. It's nice having complete silence while you're surfing, other than the music of your choice!


    Reply to Pamela:

    Oh, I'm also looking at the various BSD OS systems right now, but the Macintosh seems the easiest way to go that route, being based on FreeBSD. While I don't intend to follow a personal policy of ABW("Anything but Windows"), I do intend to get pretty close to that choice.


    PhaedrusZ

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    Default Re: Knoppix Linux-run a different operating system directly from your CD-Rom drive.

    I made the trash windows choice for a Mac 15" powerbook that I hook up to a 23 inch cinema screen and keyboard. Haven't felt bad about ditching windows yet.

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    Default Re: Knoppix Linux-run a different operating system directly from your CD-Rom drive.

    Oh god how I regret to this day selling me Ibook. I hate this fucking PC. But I would imagine running a kernel from CD drive would be slooooooooow. Plus my other CD drive stopped functioning when I added a few PCI cards from an older computer during hardware consolidation.....


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