Linked by Binh Nguyen on Wed 7th Jan 2004 18:08 UTC
When Knoppix was first released it was heralded as revolutionary in the Linux world. Its autodetection and configuration capabilities were unsurpassed. Many of my colleagues remarked that if 'KNOPPIX can't do it, Linux can't do it'. Theoretically, one would be able to get a Knoppix CD, pop it into an arbitrary system, run it, save one's data to a partition, USB stick, etc....), reboot and the existing system would be left completely as it was before the CD was placed in the system.
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I was impressed that it detected my hardware on boot. It did take a while to boot, but that is to be expected with CD-ROM access and its CLOOP decompression scheme. I think some other Linux distributions could take a lesson from the "Install Flash" on the main menu. I have never experienced such a painless install of Linux software (which unfortunately, is not saying much). There were some visual artifacts on GTK progress bars, but I fear that I may have had a slightly corrupt ISO, as I did not have time to do a computationally expensive MD5SUM check. And while the OOBE was quite nice compared to other distros, I feel it still needs a bit of work. What about Java? Where is Mozilla Firebird? etc etc.