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Re: Knoppix

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Post by seethishat »

doener wrote: post #28

Knoppix got really popular in Germany in the 2000s when it was still common that PC magazines were sold with CD-ROMs. Especially c't, Germany's most prestigious computer magazine, made Knoppix popular with their bootable Linux CDs for data rescue issues.

c't published articles about a few programs that I wrote (many years ago). They always sent me copies of the magazine with a CD when they did that. The CD had all the free/open source programs that were discussed in the magazine. Very good publisher.

Re: Knoppix

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Post by kmeaw »

I remember a cool implementation detail about the earliest Knoppix version (don't remember which one) I had that was documented somewhere on that disc - when constructing a release filesystem image, the boot process was instrumented to get an ordered list of files being read. Then that list was fed into an image building program so when written to a CD, the files will be organized in an optimal order so a linear read with some readahead would get you a better boot time.

Re: Knoppix

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Post by [deleted] »

StackBPoppin wrote: post #3

Isn't this what eventually became Kali linux? I remember Knoppix and Whoppix then I didn't really check on the projects for a while then Kali came along

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Re: Knoppix

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Post by jpfromlondon »

StackBPoppin wrote: post #3

Isn't this what eventually became Kali linux? I remember Knoppix and Whoppix then I didn't really check on the projects for a while then Kali came along

There was a Knoppix STD (security tools distro), I remember using that in the mid/early 00s.

Re: Knoppix

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Post by teddyh »

Wait, I thought the official web page for Knoppix was https://knoppix.net/>? What is this knopper.net?

Re: Knoppix

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Post by moeffju »

teddyh wrote: post #35

Wait, I thought the official web page for Knoppix was https://knoppix.net/ >? What is this knopper.net?

Knoppix.net literally says this on their homepage:

> Knoppix.net is a resource for users, developers, and testers of Knoppix. The official website for Knoppix is on Klaus Knopper's website at knopper.net.

Re: Knoppix

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Post by codingrightnow »

thewisenerd wrote: post #18
Waterluvian wrote: post #8

In Grade 10 we'd pass around a Knoppix CD in the computer lab to boot up into something a bit more useful than the "Student Vista" locked down Windows XP machines. I remember there being a sliding puzzle game in the theme of assembling molecules. I remember this because I remember a very classic argument between two teenagers over "propene" being a typo of "propane" vs. being an actual chemical. If only they were sit…

puppy linux on a live USB here :)

Puppy via USB was one of my first. My real first was SUSE distributed via CD-ROM in a GNU/Linux magazine. I used to run Puppy from not a usb drive but a hard drive in an external closure plugged into the USB port. I was a poor college kid and that's all I had.
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