Justin Zygmont <jzygmont-tEQKYFGiemxAYG7eUwYNkWD2FQJk+8+b at public.gmane.org> writes:
what is so useful about this distro anyways, running from a CD is way too slow, and not at all feasable for much of anything except maybe testing to see how it is.
...or getting more tools for recovery than can fit on tomsrtbt... ...or for some thin clients [although you could use PXE and stuff]... ...or for demonstrating Linux to people without trashing/repartitioning their hard drives... ...or you can still use local disk/USB memory sticks for data storage and leave the knoppix as the easily distributed OS... ...or that cool knoppix+OpenMosix clustering distro... ...or... Yeah, you're right. Kind of useless. I didn't see on the homepage that they shut down, though. Just that the EU patents concern _could_ cause companies and orgs [like knoppix] to shut down.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
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