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Using and Customizing Knoppix (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted November 21, 2003 by ris]

Here's an O'ReillyNet article celebrating the joys of using and configuring Knoppix. "Klaus Knopper created Knoppix. Though this distribution is rather young, it stands out for its hardware detection and autoconfiguration abilities. The packages and OS structure are based on the Debian distribution, but the hardware-discovery process uses kudzu, Redhat's hardware probing utility."

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Posted Nov 23, 2003 15:18 UTC (Sun) by wolfrider (guest, #3105) [Link]

--I don't think Knoppix uses kudzu - AFAIK Klaus implemented his own HW detection (which arguably should be used by more distros in their install processes.)

Using and Customizing Knoppix (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 24, 2003 6:33 UTC (Mon) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

Klaus: "hwsetup is a small C program I wrote, it uses RedHat's GPL-ed libkudzu and some manually generated hardware/module tables to identify peripherals, load the necessary modules for them, create symlinks in /dev for different devices and write some description files in /etc/sysconfig for later use by scripts."

http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=interview-knoppix