Knoppix - the Great Linux Advocate

Posted May 9, 2003 9:16 UTC (Fri) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
Parent article: Knoppix - the Great Linux Advocate

Whenever a friend or colleague asks me about Linux, I invest one € and burn a Knoppix CD for her. "Can I open my MS-whatever document with OpenOffice?", "Can I browse my favourite web site with Mozilla?", "Can I do nice graphics with the gimp or sodipodi?" I do not answer anymore, I just hand out the CD.

The best thing is: Knoppix is based on Debian GNU/Linux and therefore very easy to customise. I needed a software development environment with tools such as anjuta, dia, and glade-2. I just copied Knoppix on a harddisk, installed the missing packages using apt-get, removed the games (sorry, I had to), and re-mastered the CD.

Only one glitch: Knoppix and Debian are not yet perfectly integrated, i.e. there are no knoppix-... packages in the official Debian archive and Knoppix sometimes uses "specialised" packages instead of the official ones. Please, Debian and Knoppix people, unite!