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 am very unhappy with Knoppix releases for quite some time. On a system where previous incarnations always used to boot, it will hang at detecting at SCSI now (Adaptec 39160). In some forum, I was hinted that this is due to some problem Knoppix-SMP detection in a single CPU-setup + SCSI-scan is having. Knoppix-derivate Morphix is having the same issue and will hang at SCSI detection as well.
Since this was alledgedly a problem in realation to SMP, I was reffered to Kanotix, another Knoppix derivate but with no SMP awareness. I tried it an it works fine.
Apart from that, Knoppix will always lose my graphics on a i815 chip + GF4 4200 after a couple minutes where it previously didn't and will go into sleep no matter what boot-option another couple miutes later. It really didn't evolve carefully if you ask me, I am much happier with its derivates these days, not only on that particular system...
PS: md5-comments unnecessary...