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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yes, Knoppix is great, but do keep it mind that it uses kudzu for autodetection, which is from Red Hat.
I've recently installed RH 9.0 on my laptop, and then gave a shot to Knoppix, then checked the logs. They both detected (or had some problems with) exactly the same components. No surprises here.