Subject: Re: [aklug-ops] IT Expo
From: Tim Jordan, Network Services (Timothy_Jordan@labor.state.ak.us)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 12:06:54 AKDT
I have the 3.2 ISO - which I can burn for anyone interested. Looks like
it's dated July 26,2003.
Andy speaks the truth...Knoppix is awesome!
Tim
Andy Firman wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0800, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
>
>>Last year we also got a bunch of the paper CD sleeves, which seemed to work well.
>>We were able to get 3 CD's per sleeve, so we just had one nice package per distro.
>>
>>
>
>Did anyone hand out Knoppix CD's last year?
>http://www.knoppix.net/
>
>I give these to ALL my clients/friends/family as it simply
>runs off the CD and does not touch the hard drive.
>Simply amazing stuff. It's a great way to get people to use
>Linux without doing a major install. Just boot from CDROM
>and in a few moments you have Linux running.
>
>They have a smaller version (that I prefer) that gets you booted into the
>latest KDE desktop. I can't find the URL at the moment
>for download but it is out there somewhere.
>
>I just used this distro to recover a failed XP machine.
>XP would not boot no matter what I did. (even using fdisk /mbr)
>So I used Knoppix on this failed machine and then used samba
>to mount another Windows machine on the network and copied all the
>important data to that other machine. Re-installed XP and copied the data
>back. Knoppix is awesome.
>
>Andy
>(sorry again if everyone already knows about Knoppix)
>
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